Is a closet required for a room to be considered a bedroom?

Q: Can built-in wardrobes take the place of a closet in a bedroom? I want a room to still be designated as a bedroom, but I am looking at using built-ins and taking out the old closet. — e-mail

Lennar introduces two new single-family neighborhoods

Lennar will introduce two new single-family home neighborhoods this weekend in the Las Vegas Valley — Mandolin at Mountain’s Edge and The Willows in Henderson, with prices ranging from the low- to high-$100,000s.

Harmony offers new homes in eastern valley

Las Rosas by Harmony Homes is a new 43-home neighborhood in eastern Las Vegas with access to shopping, dining and major thoroughfares. Prices starts at $110,000.

Rhodes Homes offers Pesaro

According to Pesaro sales agent Marietta Manayan, for a limited time the Pesaro collection in Henderson’s Tuscany Residential Village is offering an additional $10,000 towards options and upgrades.

Warmington debuts homes

Three brand-new single-family neighborhoods are debuting in Warmington’s Northern Terrace in Providence introducing a total of 12 one- and two-level floor plans priced from the mid $100,000s to low-$200,000s.

Expect delays with short sales

Buyers often shy away from considering short-sale listings, either because they’ve had a bad experience or have heard horror stories about the deals that take forever and never close. Buyers’ agents sometimes steer their clients away from sales that are subject to the lender agreeing to accept less than what they’re owed, because it can mean a lot of work for nothing.

Vampires hungry for goals, not blood

The boss has a twisted sense of humor, which is why I wasn’t surprised when he told me the first thing I should do when meeting a group of youth soccer players from Transylvania would be to slice open a wrist and see if they came running at the sight of blood. What a kidder, that Joe Hawk.

Kessee shoots Valley boys past Chaparral

Chaparral’s boys basketball team held a three-point lead and the inside track on a home playoff game at halftime Friday night.

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Freshman guard Marshall welcomes start at San Diego State

SAN DIEGO — All freshmen deal with growing pains in one form or another, and UNLV guard Anthony Marshall has been through a few this season. Now comes the next step on his growth chart. With the 23rd-ranked Rebels on the ropes and backed into a corner in the Mountain West Conference title race, Marshall will make his first career road start today.

Wranglers squander leads but win in OT

Although the Wranglers never trailed Bakersfield on Friday night, they also were never able to build a comfortable lead over the Condors, who came from behind three times to tie the game.

Gators lead, but Wildcats prowl

On the first day of the Sunrise Region wrestling tournament Friday at Las Vegas High, the host Wildcats put 11 wrestlers into the semifinal round.

Motion filed to get Western into playoffs

The pairings and even the dates and times of the Sunset Region boys basketball playoffs might be determined in court instead of on one.

Paterno loses his glasses

The Penn State football program is nearly as well known for Joe Paterno‘s trademark glasses as it is for producing quality linebackers.

Arbor View has lead over usual powers

In a Sunset Region that Spring Valley, Shadow Ridge and Bishop Gorman have often dominated, there hasn’t been much room for wrestling teams such as Arbor View’s.

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