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Take a Walking Tour of Historic Genoa Nevada

Spend a perfect day and take a walking tour and discover historic Genoa Nevada. Park your car (anywhere is a good spot really) and start your visit at the park with the reconstructed 1851 trading post. You can’t miss it…it’s smack dab in the middle of beautiful peaceful historic Genoa. A Brief History of Genoa Nevada Genoa is the site of the first non-native permanent settlement in Nevada. Starting as a trading post in 1850 along the California Trail, Genoa provided supplies to travelers before crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Often cited as beginning in 1851, that is because that…
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Why High Interest Rates Have Transformed the Way We Renovate

Rising interest rates have not only thrown a wrench into home sales but have caused some pretty seismic changes in home renovation, too. According to the just-released 2023 US Houzz & Home renovation report of more than 46,000 respondents, nearly 3 in 5 homeowners remodeled or redecorated their homes last year, and nearly half made repairs. And this urge to revamp will carry firmly through 2023, the report says. More than half of homeowners (55%) are planning renovation projects in the next year. What’s spurring the continued interest in home reno? It seems partially fueled by the fact that people…