Always get new home inspected

Buyers often assume that if a house is new there’s no need to inspect it. What could possibly be wrong with a brand-new house? You’d be surprised.

Use federal tax credit for buying mobile home, other costs

Q: I am a first-time homebuyer with very little money for a down payment. I am extremely interested in the column where you stated that the $8,000 tax credit can be used as a down payment. No one I have spoken to knows anything about it.

Rhodes Homes offers Italian theme

Tuscany Residential Village, an Italian-inspired master-planned community, is located in the hills of Henderson near Lake Mead and Lake Las Vegas.

GLVAR reports slight decrease in home sales

Housing statistics released Sept. 3 by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors show local homes still selling, but at a slightly slower rate and at lower prices than the previous month.

Pardee launches September event

Pardee Homes is offering incentives on new home purchases through Sept. 30.

Lennar celebrates 55th anniversary

Celebrating its 55th anniversary, Lennar offers neighborhoods with homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers.

Del Webb’s Solera features financial incentives

According to Christine Lewis, general sales manager at Solera at Stallion Mountain, homebuyers who purchase at Del Webb’s Solera at Stallion Mountain neighborhood during the month of September can take advantage of incentives including 50 percent off homesite premiums, which could be valued up to $15,000 in savings, or 50 percent off the price of options and upgrades, offering savings up to $10,000.

MacDonald Highlands opens new amenities

Close to the Las Vegas Strip, the community of MacDonald Highlands is located on 1,200 acres of a hillside range within the McCullough Mountains. Behind MacDonald Highlands’ guarded gates and landscaped entrance is the private golf course known as DragonRidge Country Club. Master planned by longtime developer Rich MacDonald, new additions to the community were recently added for the benefit of its members.

More than 75 floor plans offered in Summerlin neighborhoods

More than 75 home floor plans in a dozen neighborhoods are selling in the master-planned community of Summerlin. Floor plans include single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums that range from 1,487 to 5,904 square feet. Prices start in the high $100,000s.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Texas Tech cupboard isn’t bare

Texas Tech’s nonconference game today against former Southwest Conference opponent Rice will not grab much national attention.

Spring Mountain breezes past Lund

The winner of next week’s Indian Springs-Spring Mountain game likely will have the inside track for a spot in the Class 1A Southern League football playoffs.

Beavers’ Jaquizz Rodgers dodges media, tacklers

The word from Corvallis is that Jacquizz Rodgers is a busy guy who doesn’t get all that excited about interviews. At least that’s the word an Oregon State media relations department official offered Monday.

Cimarron rolls past Arbor View

Arbor View’s football team came into Friday’s game at Cimarron-Memorial looking to make a statement.

‘Believe’ boon for Adidas

American teen tennis sensation Melanie Oudin‘s success in the U.S. Open added considerable traffic for her sponsor’s miadidas.com Web site, which featured her before the tournament began when she was ranked 70th in the world.

Rimmey heeds coach’s words

Canyon Springs coach Hunkie Cooper had ample reason to bench Deavin Rimmey after the first half of the Pioneers’ season opener Friday.

IN BRIEF

GOLF

Sprau, Bonanza rout Clark

Basketball players often have a spot on the floor from which they feel most comfortable knocking down a shot.

Tomlinson, Chargers should rip Raiders

If it appears LaDainian Tomlinson is slowing in his old age, that he has lost a step and is not a breakaway threat, the San Diego Chargers running back wants everyone to know otherwise. He’s still the best.

Buckley passes on a run for Nevada governor

Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley says she would rather be an advocate in Las Vegas than an executive in Carson City, so she won’t challenge Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid in the Democratic primary for governor.

Jobless trust coffers meager

For an idea of just how quickly Nevada’s economy deteriorated in 2009, consider the state’s unemployment trust fund.

Middle school heats up after AC fails

A broken air conditioning unit at Von Tobel Middle School has prompted school officials to provide bottled water to students, install portable air conditioners such as “swamp coolers” and rotate classes to cooler parts of the building.

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