Anyone who has ever visited us has experienced the 6 roundabouts that you have to go through to get to our house in Sierra Canyon. If you were coming from California this meant going to exit 9 and then essentially doing a u-turn after getting off the freeway and going five or so miles back to the west.
As long as we have lived here they have been working on a new road which comes into the back side of Sierra Canyon. The long awaited road opened last Friday. If you are coming to our house from the west you exit 80 at the first exit in Nevada (exit 2) and drive through Verdi to the new road Somersett Ridge Parkway. If you are coming from the east you get off 80 at exit 5 and essentially do a U-turn at the new roundabout to get on Somersett Ridge Parkway.
It is very exciting. The new road makes a huge improvement to our drive into Reno. It will be interesting to see when the new road get on to the mapping sites.
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Marion,
We recently visisted your Del Webb community. I have a couple of questions. It seemed like a lot of houses were for resale considering how new the community is. Have you any idea why so many folks are moving? Secondly, a lot of the houses were having plaster work done – was there a problem with the product or the process used?k
Thanks for your help,
Donna
donteach@juno.com
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Donna,
I am happy to answer your questions about Sierra Canyon. We are
renters so a lot of what I can tell you is second hand stuff we have
learned when talking with people on our hikes or at other activities.
I believe one of the reasons that so many houses are for sale is that
many people bought houses on speculation never intending to live in
them. As I understand it prices have come down over $100,000 since
Sierra Canyon first opened. Which I think leads to another reason so
many houses are on the market. Some people can’t bring themselves to
price their houses realistically since they will be losing so much
money. I suspect that Reno is beginning to come out of the glut of
houses on the market. You might want to look at the Reno Realty
Blog.I think they always have interesting information.
http://renorealtyblog.com/
What I have been told about the plaster work is that many of the
houses were plastered when the weather was too hot and the plaster
wasn’t installed correctly. I believe the builder has fixed it for
anyone who requests it. We mentioned it to our land lord but he
doesn’t seem interested in doing anything about it on our house. Most
of our neighbors have had it fixed.
We really enjoy living at Sierra Canyon and are seriously considering
buying here in the future. You might have already seen this but I
blogged about what it is like to live here some time ago.
http://marionvermazen.blogs.com/marions_blog/2007/11/what-its-like-t.html
and about reno weather here
http://marionvermazen.blogs.com/marions_blog/2008/03/weatehr-in-del.html
I hope this helps. I also emailed you directly. I’d be happy to answer any other questions if I can.
Marion
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