: Last year I closed on a house in Elkhorn. This was bought from HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), and unfortunately the homeowners association dues weren’t paid.
Spring means gardens again have bulbs in bloom. Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, narcissuses and other bulbs need weeks in cold weather to start to grow and flower. But even the warm Southern states now have bulbs blooming that were kept in a refrigerator for a time before they were planted.
DEAR GAIL: I just started back to work and it has become overwhelming for me to keep things picked up, especially in our family room. Do you have any tips on ways to reduce or at least control everyday clutter? Thanks — Joni
hey’re the stuff dreams are made of. Luxury homes with garage space for multiple vehicles. Oversized rooms with designer furnishings and accessories. Every modern convenience imaginable. Dedicated theater rooms and wine cellars. Backyards transformed into water-filled paradises in the middle of the desert.
The master-planned community of Summerlin is launching a six-week Adventure Days campaign (summerlinadventuredays.com) to highlight its amenities and healthy outdoor lifestyle.
Beginning at 10 a.m. today, the Las Vegas division of D.R. Horton Homes will open its doors for the Builder Short Sale II. Billed as “the sequel with no equal,” the promotion is designed to place the builder’s supply of move-in ready homes in direct competition with repossessed and short-sale properties throughout the valley, according to sales manager Jeff Ward.
Today, Del Webb is hosting Hawaiian luau events at two of the company’s most popular age-qualified communities — Solera at Stallion Mountain in Las Vegas and Sun City Mesquite in Mesquite.
Pardee Homes announces the company wide expansion of its LivingSmart brand, a program with standard and optional measures that boosts energy efficiency, saves water, improves indoor air quality and encourages material conservation and the use of recycled or sustainable resources in new homes. The multi-regional home builder and community developer has test-marketed Living Smart since 2001 as part of its pursuit of “greener,” more sustainable building and development.
Through its preferred lender, Universal American Mortgage Co., Lennar is offering qualified buyers the lowest mortgage rate ever in the company’s history at 3.75 percent fixed rate for the life of the loan, according to Jeff Galindo, Lennar Las Vegas vice president of sales.
For the thousands who have attended Country in the Park at Mountain’s Edge since the event debuted three years ago, one of the highlights of the festival has been the choreographed music and dance performances held in the community’s Exploration Park located on Buffalo Drive.
Decades ago, sellers priced a little high to leave room to negotiate down. Buyers typically offered 5 percent less. Then they negotiated and settled at a price in between. Today, there is so much variability in the housing market that it’s impossible to use a pat formula for coming up with an offer price.
Instead of posting a lineup on her dugout wall, Shadow Ridge softball coach Cynthia Winter puts up a batting circle.
It’s one of the year’s best weekends, and even after months of speculation, only some questions will be answered immediately.
Former UNLV running back Frank Summers knew his four visits to NFL teams were job interviews, and he wanted to look the part by wearing a suit and tie to all of them.
After tearing it up in spring training for the Toronto Blue Jays, former Houston Astros outfielder Jason Lane thought he had punched his ticket back to the big leagues.
CARSON CITY — A former state computer technician has been sentenced to at least 41/2 years in prison for using his state position to harass his ex-wife and purchase computers for personal use.
John L. Smith’s Friday column incorrectly stated the day of the Joe Williams Benefit Concert. The concert will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the South Point Showroom.
Across from UNLV, there is a church. Inside that church Friday morning, a man who looked remarkably like Michael Jackson (post-crazy) joined a woman who kinda-sorta resembled Charo (pre-who?), in performing for poor and homeless children.
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps have kept a lid on the status of their still hazy relationship.
CARSON CITY — Wedding chapel lobbyists and advocates for programs to stop domestic violence clashed Friday over a bill to help fund those programs by adding $5 to the cost of a Nevada marriage license.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Assembly advanced a plan Friday to create a database that would make it easier to find low-income housing.
WASHINGTON — Southern Nevada’s top water official on Friday recommended to Congress that some money the government plans to raise in a campaign against global warming should be steered into research and financing to upgrade water plants and pipelines.
Serious disciplinary action is being contemplated by the Gaming Control Board because of problems at Las Vegas nightclubs, problems some gaming licensees are ignoring, board member Randall Sayre said Friday.
A coroner’s inquest jury Friday cleared two Henderson police officers involved in a fatal shooting last month at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus.
