The pandemic has chased away home sellers in Reno and Sparks. The number of new listings was down 55% last week compared to the same week last year. But the owners of one Sparks landmark are going ahead with their listing.
As they say, you just can’t miss it. Drive on north McCarran past what was Wildcreek Golf Course on your left, look up and see what caused a sensation when it was built in 1976. It still turns heads today. As owner Anita Crawford says, “We have people who have been here for 30 years that have always wanted to see this house.” Her husband Ty remembers when they first saw it: “We drove by down there and I looked up and go, ‘Gosh look at that house it looks so cool!'” Anita adds, “My husband thought a rock star lived up here…he did.”
Why was it built on that big rock? It was a neighbor’s idea. Anita says “He used to come up here with his dog and sit on these rocks, and said ‘one day I’m going to build a house up here.’” And the Crawfords were taken by it so much, they bought it. Ty’s thinking? “I said I want this place! So we put that together.”
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