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Las Vegas - Red Rock Country Club Homes in Summerlin - (Update)

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:07 -0500

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* Red Rock Canyon

The Red Rock Canyon area is, the most beautiful area in Nevada-perhaps the southwest. Whether you are a rock climber, a hiker or just appreciate the beauty of wild horses, bighorn sheep, and wild burros roaming free, you will love this part of Nevada.

Red Rock's state-of-the-art casino. Featuring thousands of games, the casino offers a comprehensive gaming experience. With more than 3,000 of the newest slot and video games, two high-limit areas and a spectacular race and sports book, there's enough play for all gamblers.

The Red Rock Casino was designed by Station Casinos. The inspiration for this hotel was based the "contemporary elegance" that was once a prominent feature of Vegas casinos. Today, the new Red Rock Casino serves as a monument that commemorates the days of Vegas past.

Red Rock Country Club is a 735-acre village adjacent to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area that overlooks the entire Las Vegas valley.

Red Rock Country Club Homes, is part of the Summerlin Master Planned community. The luxury, executive and custom home community is guard-gated and features two 18-hole championship Arnold Palmer-designed golf courses. Community amenties include nine lighted tennis courts, aquatic center, 24 hour manned gatehouse, roving security patrol, member's only intranet site, sports clubhouse, cabana grille, tennis complex (including stadium court) and a golf pro shop.

The Mountain Course (private golf course)

The Arroyo Course (public golf course)

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"Blue Eyes"... a tribute to Las Vegas!

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:14:26 -0500

He made the city swing... he took the city by storm... he gave Las Vegas something equally important: an image
And that is neither to undersell nor overstate Frank Sinatra's contribution to Las Vegas.

"He brought unmatched excitement to the Strip and defined the word `swinger' for all times," said actor Gregory Peck.

Sinatra was a Las Vegas fixture for 43 years, from his first appearance in September 1951 until May 1994. And the city has an intoxicating admiration for the men that put Las Vegas on the map. Sinatra's magic was more easily described: gambling, womanizing, drinking till dawn -- and all of it with style.

He did it all HIS WAY! And this becomes, in many ways, the mantra that caries Las Vegas up to the hills of its success... glamour, gambling, ephithemy of good time, good life and sheer excitement... Sinatra aura brought international royalty and made Las Vegas a global destination. The capital of entertainment.

What if there had been if Sinatra wouldn't love this city? is nearly impossible to imagine, because the rise of the singer and the Vegas Strip were inseparable.
"With his little gang of merry men he established forever a sense of free-floating fun and frolic that captured the imagination of the world," Gregory Peck told celebrities two weeks after Sinatra's death in May 1998.

A new stamp honoring Frank Sinatra goes on sale next week. First-day-of-sale ceremonies for the 42-cent stamp will be held Tuesday at three locations familiar to the famed singer and actor. via Florida Times-Union

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I don't imagine anyone on this planet would not love and enjoy his music.

Here is my favorite!... Speaks to my heart.

"... much more than this, I DID IT MY WAY!"

Are you popular on ActiveRain?...

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:55:21 -0500

... Where everybody knows your name...

What makes you popular in real life? Some have that special gift to attract attention, create good report with it's peers and few even becoming well known in the community.

It is a gift or it is a craft?

For some comes easy and natural as they are blest with god given poise, sense of humor and zest for life. Those are the ones that glow in any circumstances of life... It's easy!

For others is a long struggle with breaking those barriers that keeps them on the other side of the spectrum, It is something wrong with them?

Of-course NOT.

When popularity rate is low, in any community including ActiveRain, the way to overcome it is to work your craft, learn from others and do the best.

The general wisdom will tell us that in the blooging world what sets us apart from others is the emotional, provocative reaction we generate among the readers. Subjects and areas of your expertise that will work as a magnet to attract readers therefore the popularity of your blog.

I've been asking myself many times how some post get Featured on ActiveRain Homepage? Who selects the best material written for the :

Professional \| Consumer \| All \| Subscribed
Order:	Most Recent \| Most Active \| Last Comment
Time:	Today \| This Week \| This Month \| All Time

I cam across fantastic posts with very good content, writing skill (on all the category above mentioned), and I may add with lots of comments... that never appears anywhere on ActiveRain popular Featured posts.

It's ActiveRain a popularity contest or there are rules well in place that we all should know about. As for one I would like to hear an explanation.

Does anyone here knows how is this done?

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Show Me the Money...

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:15:23 -0500

How many of you are really excited to receive your economic stimulus check?...

Not that I was expecting to much for my economic stimulus check, but for many other people across the country it was well anticipated - specially for large families with children.

As far as the financial relief people will get from it ... is an other story! But is always good to get some instead of none! Anyway,

Stimulus payments just started going out last week, but the IRS has already heard from millions of Americans looking for their money.

You may not be scheduled to get yours just yet. So the IRS wants taxpayers to check the schedule below or you can call the rebate hotline at 866-234-2942. But remember, if you filed late, you'll have to wait longer for your rebate.

Additional information about rebates: http://www.irs.gov/

And while most taxpayers can expect a rebate between $300 and $1,200, if you owe back taxes or have an unpaid student loan, you could get less. If that's the case, the IRS will send you a written explanation.

Assuming your tax return is filed and processed by April 15, this is schedule for when you can expect your economic stimulus rebate.

If your tax return is filed after the April 15 deadline, your rebate checks may be delayed until approximately two weeks after you receive your refund (if you receive a refund). Since it normally takes the IRS about 2 weeks to process most tax returns, it should take about a month to receive your rebate check.

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Trump Towers Las Vegas Condos - Trump Towers - Luxury Hotel Condos Las Vegas

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:56:19 -0500

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56th. Floor CONDO for SALE @ TRUMP TOWER I / Las Vegas Luxury High Rise Condos on the Strip

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:23:38 -0500

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100th anniversary of Mother's Day... Tribute to a mother!

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:44:04 -0500

I don't know how many knows about the roots of Mother's Day Celebration but I found it very inspirational, as is all about the love of a daughter for her mother. It is a testimony of love that will stay with us for ever. Thank you Anna!

Anna Jarvis, established the first internationally celebrated holiday - Mothers Day - in her honor, using the anniversary of her mother's death. The first official Mother's Day was held on May 10, 1908 (three years after her mother Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis died) with ceremonies in Philadelphia and in the Jarvis's hometown of Grafton, W. Va.

It was in 1905 when Anna Jarvis, who was never married and never had children, got the Mother's Day idea from her mother... Anna would want us to give mothers a white carnation - she felt it signified the purity of a mother's love... her mother said it would be nice if someone created a memorial to mothers.

After her mother died in 1905, she organized the first official mother's day service at a church where her mother had spent more than 20 years teaching Sunday school.

Today, the former Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church is the official shrine to mothers around the world. On Sunday, the shrine will celebrate the 100th anniversary, giving each mother attending a special service a white carnation.

It is important to note that though Miss Anna Jarvis devoted her life for the establishment of national Mothers Day but in the end she was disappointed at the way thing turned out. She was concerned with reform, not revenue. She hated the commercialisation of the day, so much so that she felt sorry for ever starting the tradition of celebrating Mothers Day.

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A tribute to all ActiveRain Mom's... Happy Mother's Day!

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:36:22 -0500

On this very special day my heart goes to all our Active Rain Mom's... exceptional professional people and even more exceptional Mothers. I am not one of them but I admire and look up to all of them, out there who graciously embrace the love and responsibilities for their children while performing in a very demanding professional field such as the Real Estate. So many of them I don't know yet, but here below are the once that I came across in our Active Rain community, learned about their successes in their
carriers and family.

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper


Julie Neerings	Carole Provenzale	Susan Mangigian	Mirela

Mary Warren	Carol Culkin	Jeannette Neerpat	Jennifer Samountry

Arleen Lammons	Christina Lackey	Chrissi Ewing	Mana Tulberg

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Las Vegas, Gaming and Profits!... Business as usual?

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:54:12 -0500

The Tropicana Entertainment LLC subsidiary of Tropicana Casinos & Resorts said late on Monday that it filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of federal bankruptcy law.

Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, nearly five months after New Jersey regulators stripped the Tropicana Casino and Resort of its license.

A slowing national economy made gamblers more cautious about parting with their money, and real estate values plummeted as well. Then credit markets tightened, leaving Tropicana Entertainment "very little margin for error,"

Margin for errors?... This Tropicana casino bankruptcy shows that behind all the glitter and glamor, are cut throat businessmen who have no problem clipping gamblers playing at slot machines programmed with low payout random number generators, but these businessmen are reluctant to pay off their own debts when they lose their business gamble.

Business as usual?...

By contrast, the Trump casinos in Atlantic City, as well as the Aladdin and the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, filed bankruptcy for reasons many other businesses do - because they lost money.

I came accross an unnamed employee confession: read>>> Las Vegas Sun

" By 5pm Monday Management held meeting with employee's of its "2 Southern Nevada" properties informing them of the Bankruptcy before it became public. Telling everyone NOT to discuss it with anyone because its business as usual.You'd still get your raises and promotions etc.etc. But "We may have to cut people back to 4 days !" Well thats not business as usual and if an employee is cut back to less then 32 hrs a week they'll cancel their insurance without notice! So their Business as usual is the worst joke for all those poor souls who work for this Slave labor company."

When the Gambling industry, in Vegas, is sneezing the entire local economy catches the cold!... It's like we did not have enough with the downturn of our local housing market...

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Market Trends report: February 2008

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:56 -0500

The increasing number of foreclosures is driving down market values of existing homes, making it more difficult to refinance into more affordable loans, and drawing the attention of potential buyers toward foreclosed properties. In some markets, sellers who are not feeling the pressure to sell or refinance are simply pulling their listings from the market, leaving a larger portion of the inventory in the hands of the banks. This has created a buying opportunity for those who were priced out of the market, including well-financed first-time home buyers.

The Trulia Trends Report is ... Trulia Trends Report- February 2008... built from a compilation of data sources-mostly listing price information and consumer search behavior on trulia.com and other licensed data

Pacific Northwest $219,900 $289,000
Pacific $334,000 $437,000
West $148,450 $204,900
Southwest $212,000 $250,000
Midwest $78,000 $139,000
South Central $108,279 $144,900
South $177,900 $180,000
Mid- Atlantic $224,900 $229,900
New England $208,000 $295,000

Median list price. Shows the median list prices for all homes listed on Trulia.com from Jan 1 - Jan 31, 2008. Data includes primarily resale properties, not new developments or foreclosures.

Median REO Price. Shows the median price data of foreclosed homes that have been repossessed by the lender; Also known as "bank-owned" or "Real Estate Owned" (REO). Data for each city is licensed from RealtyTrac.

Las Vegas Market Trends. According to data released by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, the median price of single family homes in Las Vegas fell 22.7% in April, from $305,000 in April 2007 to $235,875 in April 2008. Prices haven’t been this low since February 2004, when the median price was $220,000.

Five U.S. Cities on the Road to Recovery

Not every city’s housing market is bleak: according to Trulia research there are five cities that are beginning to show early signs of recovery: Albuquerque, Queens, Tulsa, Memphis and St. Louis. Looking at 2008, month-over-month median list prices were up from Dec 07 to Jan 08 in Tulsa, Memphis and St. Louis and unchanged in Albuquerque and Queens.

City	Q3 Med List	Q4 Med List	Q-Q Change	Dec Med List	Jan Med List	M-M Change
Albuquerque	$244,900	$239,900	-2%	$240,000	$239,900	0%
Queens	$489,000	$489,000	0%	$489,000	$489,000	0%
Tulsa	$120,250	$129,500	8%	$120,000	$129,500	7.9%
Memphis	$105,000	$110,000	5%	$104,900	$110,000	4.9%
St. Louis	$155,000	$154,900	0%	$149,900	$154,900	3.3%

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Pre-forclosure taste the hot water...

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:22:46 -0500

No matter how much we slice and dice the statistics, percentages and projected numbers, the truth is that housing market is far from re-bounce, particularly, in Las Vegas.

I came across many posts here on ActiveRain trying to keep up with the statistics of monthly, quarterly...etc. They all are valuable, interesting facts, we get in hand, in order to understand the direction and flow of the market. But one thing is relevant, for Las Vegas Market, the situation is not improving as well as it was expected. Tired of reading rehashed economic reports? If you want to read the originals and make up your own mind, check out Census Bureau Economic Indicators

Pre-foreclosures really taste the hot water... tells you volume about what's going on and what can we expect in the immediate future. People are more and more in trouble and the situation it's escalating. Only when pre-foreclosures start dropping, we see a market turnaround.

Grouping foreclosure properties

"Pre-foreclosures" are homes on which the owner has fallen behind on the mortgage or which have already been taken back by the lender, but haven't yet been placed on the market.
"Auction foreclosures" are bank-owned homes that will be sold on the auction block.
"Listed foreclosures" are bank-owned homes that have been listed for sale with a local realty broker.

Pre-foreclosures, start with a notice of default, signal that people are in financial trouble and those numbers are growing rapidly. The problem is deep now with repercussions to the economy. Not only do those people who overbought get hurt, but the whole community gets hurts. As the crisis deepens and foreclosures escalate, it is everyone's problem.

The county has 15,937 pre-foreclosures through the first quarter of the year, or 3.11 percent of its 512,253 households, the online foreclosure source reported.

Nevada leads the nation with 2.42 percent of its households, or 18,087 homes, in pre-forclosure through March, ReviewJournal.com - Business - ECONOMY: Bad news mounts in housing

Real-estate brokers typically have access to plenty of information about the location, price and condition of listed foreclosures. They assist you in any request for information you need to assess the housing market and opportunities for immediate consideration in your investment choices...

But information about pre-foreclosures, typically much more difficult to obtain. And there are a lot of opportunities on today's market. You can't get as much information there as you would like to but you can:

Ask a Real Estate Professional to assist you in locating pre-foreclosures in the area of your choice.
An other easy way to identify possible pre-foreclosures is to drive around and look for homes that appear to be unoccupied... If the lights are never on and the grass has grown unusually high, the home may have been left vacant in advance of a foreclosure. Homes are notorious for their poor condition, because the former owners typically leave under duress and have neither the means nor the inclination to take care of the property.
Verify the property value. If selling the property through an investor, the Real Estate Profesional will provide an estimate of market value.
Determine the amount owed against the property. This will be the total of all loans against the property. Have the investor contact the lender. Some lenders are willing to cooperate by reducing the amount owed or making other arrangements.
Check with an accountant. The IRS often gets involved with short sales because they are seen as a relief of debt and may be treated as income.

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Panorama Towers II - Condo Unit:#600 for SALE

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:48:46 -0500

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Las Vegas - Boca Raton Condominium - (Condo For SALE)

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Who can afford to buy a house... Housing affordability!

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:54:23 -0500

With all the inventory on the housing market, with all the falling prices, Foreclosures and Short Sales, why the selling is not picking up in a faster pace?

According to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation only 18.9% of the Las Vegas Valley's housing stock is attainable to workers earning the area's median wage, (which was $14.03 an hour in June).

In March on this year, the median price off a home in Las Vegas was $243,169- 23% off of the $315,000 peak in 2006. That's hardly a price that a $14/hr worker would find affordable. Still, that puts a lot more homes in the range of a lot more people- assuming, of course, they qualify for a mortgage.

What causes more homes to be sold during a "Seller's Market" than during a "Buyer's market"?

Could part of the reasoning be that properties appreciate during a "Seller's" market and prices go down during a "Buyer's market? Thus, during a "Seller's" market the property becomes more desirable creating more of a Demand? Also, during a "Seller's" market there is less inventory as compared to a "Buyer's market. What affect does the scarcity of homes on the market have on the Buyer if any?

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It takes a village to... "sell" a house!

Arina Hanciulescu (ELITE REALTY) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:25:09 -0500

Referring to the African proverb which states that "It takes a village to raise a child." We can draw a parallel for almost everything that's going on in our lives.

Indeed as we live in this small world divided in different countries, different ethnic groups, different cities and different small communities... It becomes more and more obvious that the interconnection of our personal identity and tribal life is translating into - collaboration, cooperation, acceptance, understanding and helping each other - in order to overcome the social-economic-natural environment where a tribe lives.

Anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins began publishing studies that showed tribal life as an easy, safe more sheltered life, the opposite of the traditional supposition.

In the Real Estate Market we can recognize that as well:

Housing Markets are divided by: developments, communities, income, age, preference, vertical living vs. homes, condominiums vs. individual, zip codes... etc. But never the less they all are governed and bounded, by the Rules and Regulation or at leased by the neighborhood watch Rules.

We don't leave alone anywhere on this planet nor on our community!

With the latest harsh reality of the downhill Housing Market the communities had to go with the punches and face a new reality. Life is not the same and a "reality check" is in order.

What are you going to do if your neighbors from right to left are going with their properties on Foreclosures, Short Sale and your own home is depreciating in an alarming rate?... Are you going to turn against it?

The reality is that your neighborhood is changing... Your home value is changing (they like to call it correction to the real value) like it or not!. If you are the lucky ones who are not in the situation to sell your home (you should bless your lucky star), than you better be open and understand to the "stressful-devastating" reality some neighbors are facing.

I personally received phone calls from neighbors, of distressed properties I am trying to help in selling, with threatening comments. I understand!... Isn't easy for anybody to adjust to a new reality...

It takes a village to... "sell" a house!

The condition of your property will also be scrutinized more carefully in the current market than it would have been a few years ago.

If you are in the situation to sell your home:

Price your home right for today's market... and face it! is that prices in their neighborhood may have dropped during the last year or two.
Depreciation is not all created equal... Some neighborhoods are depreciating more than others! Before you put your home on the market consult with an Real Estate Specialist, to get the right price at the right market value
Today's home buyers are extremely price-conscious. If there is a lot to choose from, price will certainly be a big factor. A price that's too high for the market won't bring the desired result.

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