Mary's Musings

There are 7 homes currently for sale in Braewood Heritage, not too bad for a 400+ home community.  This community has always stayed fairly stable in the turn around.  There are not a lot of investment properties in the complex (thus fewer renters) because of the 5% cap on rentals that was voted o...

The time was 5:30 P.M. this evening...the temperature in Las Vegas as you can see from the sign was a sizzling 116°.  According to "The Weather Channel thing on my website the current temperature is 101° and it's 10 P.M....ya gotta LOVE it!  It's DRY heat...enough to shrivel one's bones!  Althoug...

Elvis themed weddings, underwater weddings, drive-thru weddings, traditional weddings, you name it Las Vegas has them all.  And today 7-7-07 is one of the busiest wedding days ever.  The county courthouse was processing 100+ marriage licenses an hour yesterday!  The prediction is for 3000+ weddin...

While ‘cruising around blogs-ville' the other day I came across Alison Cramer's blog: Paying out the noise for Condo Docs to whom I give full credit to for helping me come up with this subject!  One of Sarah Cooper's suggestions in her blog on 6/28/07 Writer's Block? Noooooo!! "If you really need...

Every year my husband loves to do his part to shows his patriotism, or so he says!  I think it's more for the 'attention".  The pants were bought in 1972 (so they are 35 years old!).  And yes he has worn this outfit EVERY  4th of July since then!  He's also worn it on Presidential election days.T...

It's  HOT - The OFFICIAL temperature in Las Vegas yesterday was 115º mark this week. This makes it hard to believe that Las Vegas is now in the monsoon season - lasting from July to September.  The monsoons are desert thunderstorms, which are known to bring downpours of rain in a short time perio...

                     4th of July Doings Around TownSummerlin's 9th Annual "Star Spangled Spectacular" @ Hills Park in Summerlin - starting @ 4:30 pm. concert @ 8:00 p.m. Fireworks following.There is a charge for this, call 702-895-ARTS for more information.The Las Vegas Philharmonic, under Music ...

May's Las Vegas housing statistics tell us that we're on a real, not a false, bottom.Every market goes in cycles.  It is vital to understand when  a cycle has bottomed out.  The reasons we think Las Vegas is now on a real bottom are:       1. SALES: Both new and existing home sales have traded in...

Las Vegas just keeps on growing!  The statistics, as mentioned in the Las Vegas Review Journal and on the 3 major TV stations local news, say that 6,000 people are moving to Las Vegas and Clark County NV every month.  We grow and grow and grow.  Yet Clark County is at the top when it comes to for...