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If the ground shaking doesn’t scare you away here are a few of the amenities at Sommersett.

Great Room:  Basically a place to lounge and take it easy.  Has a fireplace, wireless network and an outdoor deck that overlooks the Canyon Nine Golf Course.

Media Room:  Has a 52” flat screen complimented by a state of the art audio and video system.

Aerobics Studio: Has cardio kick boxing, body sculpting, spinning, yoga and pilates classes.

Cardio-Weight Studio:  Comes with elliptical trainers, exercise bike, treadmills and a variety of Paramount strength training equipment.

Sports Court:  Has three basketball hoops, hardwood floors, community stage and NEC projector and pull-down screen.

Kids Corner:  Was designed to entertain children ages three to six.

Teen Club: Entertaining environment for teens with video games, board games and a pool table.

Arts and Crafts Studio:  This has ceramics kiln and two potter’s wheels.

Massage:  Shea butter body wrap, salt scrub or hot stone massages.

Locker Facilities:  Include day lockers, restrooms, showers, diaper changing tables, and cedar lined saunas.

Two Pools:  One an interactive pool with a 98 foot water slide.  The other one is a three lane junior Olympic pool.

Two Spas:  An adult-only and one for the entire family.

As a Reno/Sparks real estate professional, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog.  You can email me @  chance at ballard-company.com or http://www.myspace.com/chancegates

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods

And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
Tiger Woods

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
Tiger Woods

Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods

Green and black go well together, don’t they?
Tiger Woods

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods

I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don’t know when that day will be.
Tiger Woods

I don’t get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
Tiger Woods

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
Tiger Woods

I want to be what I’ve always wanted to be: dominant.
Tiger Woods

I’m addicted. I’m addicted to golf.
Tiger Woods

I’m aware if I’m playing at my best I’m tough to beat. And I enjoy that.
Tiger Woods

As a Reno/Sparks real estate professional, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog.  You can email me @  chance at ballard-company.com or http://www.myspace.com/chancegates

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

Here’s what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We’re given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there’s a few people I haven’t made mad yet, I want to get them.
Mike Ditka
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.
Mike Ditka

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let’s face it.
Mike Ditka

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
Mike Ditka

It’s your body and you’re going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you’re going to be healthier, you’re going to be happier, you’re going to enjoy the people around you and they’re going to enjoy you more.
Mike Ditka

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Major League Baseball season is upon us and I know the Sports Books are busy.  The way I look at betting baseball is real similar to the way I look at betting football.  In football anybody who follows my picks will know “I like the points”.  In baseball it is pretty much the same except I like the positive line in most cases.   I also like certain situations, one of my favorite is going against an average pitcher after he had a great game in his last start. Thinking he cannot do it again.

One of the times I will choose a negative line is when an above average pitcher is playing for a below average team.  A great example of this is when Curt Schilling use to play for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Betting Overs/Unders

I don’t really do this much anymore however when I worked in the casino, placing a bet almost everyday, I would take the total score going over if:

1).  The total score line was 10 or higher and the line was negative.

2).  I never heard of the two pitchers.

My thought was if I have never heard of them, they cannot be a start.  I lost count on the number of times I was proven wrong.

Please remember betting is suppose to be for entertainment reasons only!  Please don’t bet with money you cannot afford to lose.

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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank Aaron

I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron

I don’t see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.
Hank Aaron

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron

The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron

You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.
Hank Aaron

I always need quotes for my library if anyone has heard of a great one please send it to me real estate related or not..

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Contact me at  chance at ballard-company.com www.myspace/chancegates

The PGA TOUR returns to Reno this summer, July 12^th – 18^th, 2010 at Montreux Golf and Country Club. It is because of our dedicated volunteers that we can give so much to children’s charities in our community. Any amount of time is greatly appreciated.

We are currently in need of volunteer Marshals. The Marshal duties include: quieting the gallery around tees and greens, controlling crossings and ball spotting. Positions will fill quickly, so register early.

All volunteers receive:

• Two season passes for you and a guest

• Parking pass

• 1 RTO embroidered golf shirt

• 1 RTO embroidered golf cap

• Meals for each shift worked

• Volunteers’ appreciation party

• Raffle drawings for great prizes from now thru the event

• Volunteer package is $50…. a $200 value

Register online at: www.RenoTahoeOpen.com/volunteers

As a Reno/Sparks real estate professional, I encourage all questions or comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted.  I can be reached by email at  chance at ballard-company.com or http://www.myspace.com/chancegates

Being a Dallas Cowboys fan you can imagine that I’m pretty happy with last week’s  results.  I’m really kind of torn this week as Brett Favre is going against the Cowboys.  Who doesn’t want to see Brett get a Superbowl Ring so late in his career.  Kurt Warner fans that’s who.  I like the Arizona Cardinal plus the points this week going against the New Orleans Saints.   This one could be fun to watch with a lot of points being scored.

Once again it is  time to take a break from Reno/Sparks Real Estate and talk some football.  I’m going out on the limb this week.  I like the St. Louis Rams and the points.    The Arizona Cardinals have clinched a playoff birth and are one of the most streaky teams I’ve ever seen.  Plus the fact that the Cardinals usually play down to their opponents level, there is a small chance the Rams win this game outright.

Take the Raiders plus 13.5 pts.  The Cowboys have not scored 13 points in the last two weeks.  I know this is the third week in a row that I went against my beloved Cowboys, but if it is working why stop now.

Wow still rolling, thanks to a last second goal that propelled us to a 3-2 win, making our record 3-2 on the season. Another player scored his first goal of the season. That makes 5 of the 7 player have scored at least one goal.

As a Reno/Sparks real estate professional, I encourage all questions or comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted.  I can be reached by email at  chance at ballard-company.com or http://www.myspace.com/chancegates