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A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn’t want to do that kind of thing.
Dick Van Dyke

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we’ll likely not see another like him.
Dick Van Dyke

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don’t see them anymore.
Dick Van Dyke

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
Dick Van Dyke

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
Dick Van Dyke

I don’t have any children, I have four middle-aged people.
Dick Van Dyke

I don’t think we’ve got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don’t think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can’t.
Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
Dick Van Dyke

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
Dick Van Dyke

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
Dick Van Dyke

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George Armstrong Custer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Armstrong Custer

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.
George Armstrong Custer

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
George Armstrong Custer

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
George Armstrong Custer

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer

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As a Reno/Sparks Nevada real estate professional and property manager, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog. Please feel free to use my back door to the MLS and search the houses available in the Reno/Sparks and most Northwest Nevada neighborhoods. I can be reached by email @ chance@ballard-company.com http://www.myspace.com/chancegates .  You can also follow me at http://www.twitter.com/chancegates .  To checkout some of  my property manager services goto http://chancegates.com/property-management-services/

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If the modification fails, contact your local real estate professional to help short sale your home.  To make sure there is no deficiency judgment a homeowner might find it necessary to hire an attorney.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Max Weber

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Max Weber

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Max Weber

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Max Weber

Reno/Sparks Association of REALTORS®

February, 2012
Market Report
Area 100, Greater Reno/Sparks

Summary
– “For the second consecutive year, February had the highest volume of unit sales for a month of February
in the history of MLS,” said Kevin Sigstad, 2012 president of the Reno/Sparks Association of REALTORS
and the broker with Re/Max Premier Properties. “We are continuing to see record highs in number of
existing home sales. Pair that with the fact that our region is not experiencing the typical seasonal winter
lull in home sales, the stage is set for a record-breaking spring in home sales.”

Median Sales Price
– February 2012 median price was up 7.4% to $145,000 compared to $135,000 in January 2012 and down
9.9% from the February 2011.
– Median price is defined as the mid-point, where, for the time period identified, the price for one-half of the
sales are higher and one-half are lower.

Price per Square Foot Solds
– Price per square foot is at $85.93.
– Price per square foot by area groups, as provided in the Detailed Report, is a good way to compare
similar homes for current value.

Number of Units Sold
– February ended the month with 453 sold transactions, up 1.6% from the prior month.
– Sales are up 17.1% from the same period last year.

Average Days on Market
– The average days on market are 132 days, down 9% from January 2012.

Day on Market (DOM) by Special Conditions
– Short sales continue to influence the average days on market at 207 DOM.
– Properties with no special conditions 118 DOM and Other had 72 DOM.
– REO properties average days on market remain stable at 93.

New Listings
– 512 new listings were taken in February compared to 577 in January, an 11.3% decrease and an 18.2%
decrease from February 2011.

Distressed New Listings by Special Conditions
– 64% of new February listings were distressed – 42% (216) Short Sales; 22% (112) REO; No special conditions
34% (176) and Other less than 2% (8).

Status of Pending
– Active Pending – Short Sales represent 62.3% of the total active pendings; Active Pending Loan equals 16.6%;
Pending No-show represents 16.1%; Active Pending call 4.8%; and Active Pending House less than 1%.

Current Months Supply of Inventory (Unsold Inventory ÷ Sales per Month)
– As of February 29, there was 5.4 months of unsold inventory based on the February sales rate.

Historical Months Supply of Inventory
– Historical Months Supply of Inventory shows that February MSI is down to 5.4 months compared to January 2012
at 6.0, and down 63% from February 2011.
– The National Association of REALTORS® describes a balanced market as between 5 and 7 months supply.
– Unsold inventory includes Active Pendings. This method of reporting months supply of inventory follows the
industry standard of including all pending sales remaining in active status in the active inventory.

Conclusion
– February 2012 reported unit sales are the highest February in history. February 2012 sales are up 17.1% from
February 2011 unit sales which was the second highest reported unit sales in history.
– The median price rebounded from a low in December to $145,000, up 7.4% from the prior month. With this
rebound we move back into the stabilization of the median price range we had seen starting in May of 2011.
– Washoe County’s unemployment rate trended down in 2011 and is down from 14.2% in January 2011 to 13% in January 2012. This is a positive sign for Washoe County.
– With interest rates at historic low levels and affordable housing prices, the Reno/Sparks record high unit sales support the conclusion that now is a good time to purchase a home.
– According to Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey from February, Americans’ concerns over housing and the economy are subsiding.
– The Detailed Report is made available to members as a member benefit. Examine the Detailed Report for a morein-depth look into market segments and price points. Both this report and the Detailed Report are provided as avalue added service to members.

Members of the Reno/Sparks Association of REALTORS® are authorized to reproduce and redistribute this copyrighted report. No other reprint or distribution of this report is granted unless specifically approved in writing by the Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors, 5650 Riggins Court, Reno, NV 89502 or email to info@rsar.net. Data Sourced from NNRMLS. Created by NLS under license for RSAR.

As a Reno/Sparks Nevada real estate professional and property manager, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog. Please feel free to use my back door to the MLS and search the houses available in the Reno/Sparks and most Northwest Nevada neighborhoods. I can be reached by email @ chance@ballard-company.com http://www.myspace.com/chancegates .  You can also follow me at http://www.twitter.com/chancegates .  To checkout some of  my property manager services goto http://chancegates.com/property-management-services/

If you are behind on your house payment and looking for a loan modification, go to making homes affordable

If the modification fails, contact your local real estate professional to help short sale your home.  To make sure there is no deficiency judgment a homeowner might find it necessary to hire an attorney.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Baseball’s future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it’s the greatest game there is!
Ted Williams

By the time you know what to do, you’re too old to do it.
Ted Williams

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
Ted Williams

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
Ted Williams

I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Ted Williams

If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.
Ted Williams

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams

There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off.
Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas A. Edison

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As a Reno/Sparks Nevada real estate professional and property manager, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog. Please feel free to use my back door to the MLS and search the houses available in the Reno/Sparks and most Northwest Nevada neighborhoods. I can be reached by email @ chance@ballard-company.com http://www.myspace.com/chancegates .  You can also follow me at http://www.twitter.com/chancegates .  To checkout some of  my property manager services goto http://chancegates.com/property-management-services/

If you are behind on your house payment and looking for a loan modification, go to making homes affordable

If the modification fails, contact your local real estate professional to help short sale your home.  To make sure there is no deficiency judgment a homeowner might find it necessary to hire an attorney.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

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Although a Christian bishop named Valentine was martyred on February 14 in A.D. 271, there is nothing in this legend to account for the custom of choosing a sweetheart on this day.

By the early 1600s, handmade valentines were customarily sent from admirers to sweethearts. About 1800 the first commercial cards appeared. Cards were usually sent anonymously. As early as 1822, an English official reported having to hire extra postal workers on this day. In 1849, Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, started selling quality valentines so popular that she was called “Mother of the American Valentine.”

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As a Reno/Sparks Nevada real estate professional and property manager, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog. Please feel free to use my back door to the MLS and search the houses available in the Reno/Sparks and most Northwest Nevada neighborhoods. I can be reached by email @ chance@ballard-company.com http://www.myspace.com/chancegates .  You can also follow me at http://www.twitter.com/chancegates .  To checkout some of  my property manager services goto http://chancegates.com/property-management-services/

If you are behind on your house payment and looking for a loan modification, go to making homes affordable

If the modification fails, contact your local real estate professional to help short sale your home.  To make sure there is no deficiency judgment a homeowner might find it necessary to hire an attorney.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
Margaret Thatcher

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher

From Mike Janela in New York, USA http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com

One of America’s greatest sports traditions is “Bowl Season” – that wonderful time each year marking the end of the American college football season end. More than 30 games match some of the nation’s best and most prestigious programs in battles to end their years on high notes.

Of all the bowls played, one of the most prestigious is the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, which this year sees the No. 3 Oklahoma State Cowboys take on the No. 4-ranked Stanford Cardinal, as part of the Bowl Championship Series. But while many eyes will turn to the game itself on Jan. 2 in Glendale, Arizona, USA, the spotlight on this game starting shining back on 16 December, when I adjudicated an attempt for the “most people to make an American football field goal in six hours” at the Tostitos Fiesta in the Square celebration.

With temperatures low, winds high, and former football stars in abundance, participants from around the world lined up in the middle of Times Square in New York to attempt their chance at history in the temporary football field assembled by Tostitos.

Requiring 100 different people to successfully make a field goal of at least 20 yards, the Fiesta in the Square saw a total of 181 different participants put one through the uprights and into Guinness World Records lore.

What struck me most while adjudicating the event was the wide range of participation. An event like this truly brought a huge variety of people together, running the gamut from foreigners to locals and football professionals to those who had never even put toe to pigskin before.

Former football stars who attempted (and all converted) field goals included Jim Kelly, Eddie George, Antonio Pierce, Rodney Peete, and Bill and Martin Gramatica. Other participants included visiting tourists from Turkey, Australia, Mexico, and the UK. In total, 965 attempts were made by countless hundreds of people throughout the day, with the aforementioned 181 finding success.

The teamwork resulted in more than just a Guinness World Records achievement, too. As a result of the final record total, Tostitos donated $200,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters charity. This was aided in part by Big Brothers Big Sisters advocate and entertainment personality Nick Lachey stepping up and drilling a successful field goal of his own.

In all, a great exhibition was put on for sport, for charity, and, of course, for record-breaking history. The Fiesta Bowl itself already has a lot to live up to!

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As a Reno/Sparks Nevada real estate professional and property manager, I encourage all questions and comments on the Reno/Sparks real estate market or any of the articles posted in this blog. Please feel free to use my back door to the MLS and search the houses available in the Reno/Sparks and most Northwest Nevada neighborhoods. I can be reached by email @ chance@ballard-company.com http://www.myspace.com/chancegates .  You can also follow me at http://www.twitter.com/chancegates .  To checkout some of  my property manager services goto http://chancegates.com/property-management-services/

If you are behind on your house payment and looking for a loan modification, go to making homes affordable

If the modification fails, contact your local real estate professional to help short sale your home.  To make sure there is no deficiency judgment a homeowner might find it necessary to hire an attorney.