remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday... Friday Night Lights ... Or Alien Eyes - 09/16/09 08:57 AM

Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
 

 
 

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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Hanging Out At the "Water Cooler" - 09/09/09 08:50 AM

Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday... Took The Long Road Back To The Office For Some Think Time - 09/02/09 06:19 PM

Photos by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Speechless Sunday ... Ladybug Patrol In The Alfalfa - 08/23/09 05:39 PM

Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday (on Thursday) ... Buckets of Crab & Shrimp - 08/20/09 08:16 AM

Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Speechless Sunday ... Peaceful Blossom Moment - 08/16/09 12:27 PM
 
Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Be Sure To Assess Value Versus Price When Making Your Offer - 08/13/09 11:16 AM
It seems like Buyers want to offer a certain percentage below the list price regardless of what the price is.  This is causing many of them to miss out on homes that they should be buying. 
The List Price is not a target to mark down from.  It must be analyzed for accuracy for the property being offered.  If it is 30% overpriced and you offer 20% below that you are still paying 10% too much.  If it is 10% under priced and you pay 1% over the list price you are still getting a great value. 
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remax realty affiliates: Speechless Sunday ... High Tea Anyone? - 08/09/09 09:00 AM

 
Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Our Missing Duck Came Home ... With Company - 08/05/09 10:06 PM

Tuesday morning our missing duck came home ... with company!
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Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine are the authors of this blog.  Lisa, Jim  and Jessie are experts in Carson Valley, Carson City and the tri-county area of Douglas County, Carson City and Lyon County.  Call our team anytime at 775-781-5472 or 775-781-3704.  To Search for Homes go to: www.findhomesincarsoncity.com of visit our website at www.CarsonValleyLand.com
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remax realty affiliates: Time To Train The Tiger Coaches ... Our Community Service - 08/01/09 09:46 AM
Its time to train the coaches.  Football is coming and our young Pop Warner athletes will be hitting the fields in the next couple of weeks.  Some come with trepidation, can they really do it?  Others come with great anticipation ... they've been waiting for the first day of practice since they walked off the field of their last game last season.  They will soon be blended in to a wonderful team of Douglas Tigers.
 We spend a lot of time getting our coaches ready for the season.  The success of the season is directly attributable to the coaching staff.  Success … (1 comments)

remax realty affiliates: Clouds ... Another Day In The Carson Valley - 07/31/09 07:58 PM

Another day in the Carson Valley.  When we don't have blue skies we get spectacular clouds.  This view was from my office this afternoon, 7.31.09.  Of course the formation changed by the minute and the hour.  There was some lightening later, a smattering of rain, but overall just a cooling from the cloud cover.  The entertaining cloud formations morph continuously offering splendor and enjoyment all day long.
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Just How Long Are You Supposed To Heat Peas? - 07/22/09 09:06 AM

Where Else Are You Overcooking Your Peas?
Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Too Hot Where You Are? Think Cool! - 07/22/09 08:55 AM

Think Cool ... Be Cool!
Photo by Jim Valentine, RE/MAX Realty Affilliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410.  www.carsonvalleyland.com   dpwtigers@hotmail.com    775-781-3704   Lisa Wetzel and Jim Valentine Serving Northern Nevada for 30 years - Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Topaz, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton, Stagecoach.  Land, ranches, residential, short sale, REO, investment, and development properties.
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remax realty affiliates: Buyers Can Help Themselves During The Course Of Escrow - 07/18/09 08:52 AM
Buyers Can Help Themselves During The Course Of Escrow  
Congratulations to you Buyers that are in escrow.  Great price and great interest - it is a great time to be a Buyer.  To make sure your buying experience is smooth and successful there are some ways you can help yourself through the course of your escrow.  It isn't automatic that escrows close, and it is important that you help yourself along the way to make sure that yours does. 
One area that causes delays, and frustration, in escrow is not having all the documents signed, or signed in a timely manner.  … (5 comments)

remax realty affiliates: Are You Working With An Agent? ... A Perspective. - 07/16/09 07:26 AM
Agents usually ask right up front when they encounter a prospective buyer, "Are you working with an agent?"  Amazingly, "working with an agent" means different things to different people.  Not all agents see it alike, and certainly Buyers don't always understand what is being asked.  It seems simple enough yet the interpretation varies according to your filters.
 A Buyer may have been shown 50 homes by an agent and yet they'll respond "no" when asked.  An agent may have talked to a Buyer one time on the phone, given the price and acquired the Buyer's name, and yet they will perceive … (59 comments)

remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Let The Sun Shine In - 07/08/09 09:22 AM

It was trying to storm, the sky was filled with black clouds, and the sun found a way to shine.  Shot from our back patio.
Serving the beautiful Carson Valley for 30 years.  Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Smith Valley, Topaz, Carson City, Dayton. 
Jim Valentine/Lisa Wetzel RE/MAX Realty Affiliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410 
775-781-3704  www.carsonvalleyland.com  dpwtigers@hotmail.com
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remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Paris With A Teenager - 07/01/09 10:06 PM
 
Gotta love the Bistro life ... even if your 16 year old wants his bottle in the picture.  This is the second picture we took - the first was very Parisian if you know what I mean.

Serving Gardnerville, Minden, Carson Valley, Dayton, Carson City, Smith Valley and Northern Nevada for 30 years.  Call us with your Northern Nevada needs. 
Jim Valentine / Lisa Wetzel   RE/MAX Realty Affiliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410
775-781-3704     dpwtigers@hotmail.com   www.carsonvalleyland.com
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remax realty affiliates: My Wife Really Got My Goat ...The Story Continues - 06/24/09 05:14 AM
My wife got me a rescue goat as I've posted before.  Buster was left in a home that was foreclosed on, our friend rescued him, and we took him in.  We took him blind, hadn't seen or learned much about him before we agreed to take him.  What a treasure we found!  The family that left him must have been sad as he is very people friendly and dependent - was clearly loved.
Our grandsons came over for Father's Day and ended up swimming in the irrigation ditch as we got water that day.  Buster followed them and just wanted to … (11 comments)

remax realty affiliates: Wordless Wednesday ... Don't Know If You Are Coming Or Going? - 06/24/09 04:59 AM

Don't Know If You Are Coming Or Going?
Took this at the San Diego Zoo a few years ago
Jim Valentine / Lisa Wetzel, RE/MAX Realty Affiliates, 1320 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV  89410         775-781-3704   1-800-814-8777  dpwtigers@hotmail.com   www.carsonvalleyland.com
Serving Carson Valley, Gardnerville, Minden, Genoa, Smith Valley, Carson City, Dayton since 1976 & 1980.  For all your Northern Nevada real estate needs give us a call.
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remax realty affiliates: Make Hay While The Sun Shines ... And Then Cut It! - 06/23/09 09:43 PM
He finally came to cut my hay the other day.  We've been watching the hay grow tall and green ironically in keeping with our market recovery.  That has been our analogy for our real estate production as the market has shifted this spring ... when the crops started growing our business started growing.  It has helped us maintain our mindset as we acquired momentum in the market.  We watched the fields grow green as did our bank account. 
We had rain ... a good thing.  We had rain when we were going to cut ... a bad thing.   We had the … (5 comments)