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Monday, August 3, 2026

Money Making Monday
  1. 9:04The One Percent

    Two hundred grand cheaper, thirty five miles east

    The gap between Washoe County and Lyon County home prices is about $202,000 right now. We priced out what the other end of that trade actually costs: the drive, the gas, the emergency room that isn't there, and the property tax break that turns out not to exist.

    Sierra Nevada REALTORS Q2 2026 regional report, via Carson Now · 2026-07-26Nevada Department of Taxation, Property Tax Rates for Nevada Local Governments (Redbook), FY 2026-27 · 2026-06AAA Gas Prices, Nevada and Reno metro · 2026-07-30Nevada Department of Education, NSPF Star Ratings 2024-25 · 2025-09City of Fernley, Water Distribution · 2026Bloomberg Law, Ninth Circuit ruling on the Truckee Canal lining challenge · 2023-03-17NV Energy, Sierra Pacific Power residential rate schedule · 2026-04
  2. 9:17The One Percent

    If the money's in recruiting, you're not the salesperson

    The FTC pulled seventy multi-level marketing companies' own published income disclosures and read all of them. What the numbers actually say about who makes money in these things, the one question that sorts a real opportunity from the other kind, and the Nevada law almost nobody knows about.

    FTC, staff report on multi-level marketing income disclosure statements · 2024-09-04FTC consumer guidance, multi-level marketing businesses and pyramid schemes · 2026Nevada Revised Statutes 598.100-598.130 · 2026
  3. 9:31The One Percent

    Nevada is cheap to start a business in. That's a sales pitch.

    The state business license is $200 and that's the number in every pitch. Then you find out Reno, Sparks and Washoe County each want their own, and that the break for a home business only exists if you knew to ask for it. What it actually costs to open something here.

    Nevada Secretary of State, state business license · 2026City of Sparks, multi-jurisdictional business license process · 2026Nevada Department of Taxation, Commerce Tax · 2026Nevada Department of Taxation, Modified Business Tax · 2026Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 76 · 2026IRS Announcement 2026-11, mid-year standard mileage rate · 2026-07-13
  4. 9:46The One Percent

    The state is holding money with your name on it

    Nevada's Treasurer is sitting on more than a billion dollars in unclaimed property: old paychecks, utility deposits, insurance refunds that went to an address you moved out of. The search is free and takes about a minute. Bring us what you find.

    Nevada State Treasurer, Unclaimed Property · 2026-01Nevada Unclaimed Property search · 2026Nevada Revised Statutes 120A.740 · 2026

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