Archive for July, 2009
The Twenty on the Twentieth Report – July 2009
It has been a great summer to live on Lake Tapps. There have been a lot of interesting things to watch from my deck including 4th of July parties, kids learning to wakeboard, a custom pirate pontoon float, fire fighting helicopters, and a wedding where the groom and groomsmen arrived by boat. My binoculars have come in very handy!
Back to real estate business. We did not have as many waterfront solds as last month but last month must have been a record of some sort. We did have 5 which, I think, is still very good.
Here are the current Lake Tapps real estate statistics for the past month:
Active: Under 1 Million Dollars = 51 Over 1 Million Dollars = 19
Lowest Price = $349,850 Highest Price = $2,500,000
Pending: Under 1 Million $$ = 14 Over 1 Million $$ = 1 (That’s a total of 15 again – interesting!)
Sold: 5 06/19/09 905 187th Ave E $470,000
07/01/09 2106 186th Ave E. $560,000
07/09/09 4413 185th Ave E $565,000
07/10/09 21612 Snag Island $530,000
07/13/09 2507 185th Ave E $470,000
If you have any questions or would like to go see some homes, please email me at karenwa@johnlscott.com or call me at 206.910.8807.
Sincerely, Karen Wallace, John L Scott Real Estate
P.S. The photo was take by a good friend of mine B.H.
Fire Fighting Helicopters at Lake Tapps
Today there was a fire on Highway 410 between Sumner and Bonney Lake. The terrain where the fire was burning is so steep that two fire fighting helicopters were called in to help.
I did not know anything about a fire burning until it sounded like a helicopter was landing in the yard across the street. Turns out that the helicopter and another were scooping up lake water from the cove behind me. Locals call that cove “the old party cove” and it is over by the boat store.
I grabbed my camera, hopped on my bicycle and followed the helicopters over to another refilling spot next to the bridge on Sumner-Tapps Highway. It was quite a spectacular sight and many others stopped to watch. This is the footage that I got. It is a little rough but still fun to share.
The Temperature of Lake Tapps July 12th
Many times when I look at the search criteria in the statistics for this site, there is someone wanting to know the water temperature of Lake Tapps. My neighbor has a pool thermometer hanging off of the dock in the first 6 inches of water, so today I went and looked. The water temperature read 70 degrees- nice! That is even with the weather being quite a bit cooler than yesterday’s upper 80′s.
In another type of lake temperature, last weekend was the 4th of July. Independence Day usually happens to be one big party on the lake. This year was no exception. There was a lot going on in my cove so I decided at the last minute to experiment with shooting some video footage with a borrowed camera. The camera has a telephoto zoom lens. Here’s some fun, test footage that I shot and then edited.
