Community Garage Sales by Individual Residences on the same date with HOA Promotions !! Join us on your own or with friends, enjoy the promotions, you keep the profits! What a great new spin on a great old NRE tradition. Check out the date of the garage sales in your property owner login page.

The 2025 CNRE Community Garage Sale will be May 2-3rd. We will coordinate to get the Community Dumpster for the weekend after the garage sale so any Active Members (those current on annual dues of $50) can dump your junk for free!

We will be advertising this CNRE Community Garage Sale in order to get more people coming to our place where they have multiple houses to shop at. We would ask that you please donate 20% of your proceeds to the donation we give to the Rio Vista Volunteer Fire Department. This will help meet our goal of a minimum of $1000 donation to them.

If you want to be a part of this event, please contact Annie Guereca, the Activities Committee Chair, at 817-691-0498 or aguereca1971@gmail.com to let her know in order to place your address on the list!

Socials

NRE has had various socials over the years. The most common and recurring ones are Springfest and Fall Fest Trick-or-Treat Hayride.

Fall Fest Trick-or-Treat Hayride

The Fall Fest Trick-or-Treat Hayride has been ongoing since 2009. Although it has been hosted by several families, it has been hosted the past few years by the Guereca and the Simmons family.

The social is both a time for families to gather for food, games, photos, and conversation and a huge hit with the kids who can trick-or-treat within NRE with adult supervision. Volunteers pull hay wagons, taking kids to those residences who have pre-registered to accept trick-or-treaters.

Spring Fest

Spring Fest usually occurs in late April or early May. It is a picnic for both adults and children. Participants are asked to bring a dish - either a side or a dessert. This is a great NRE community get-together where we fellowship with other neighbors, eat pot-luck dishes, and drink what you bring for yourself. There is the Annual Sean Stotler Brisket Cook off, a Cornhole Tournament, a Cakewalk, a Silent Auction, and a donation firefighter boot, where all proceeds are donated to our local Rio Vista Volunteer Fire Department.

This is a great opportunity for neighbors to get to know each other...and there are plenty of activities for the kids.

There are many components to our neighborhood watch, but the most important is that we watch out for each other.

The Association provides email notification to the neighborhood for many things to include, reported suspicious activity, criminal activity, lost and found animals, road conditions during a flood, items for sale, etc. We will text and email all property owners if such things are reported within the neighborhood.

If you have something to report, you may contact any of the Board Members or Scott Lingo who is the Chair of this committee.

We follow the: C. O. P. (Citizens on Patrol) protocol that has been set up in most neighborhoods. However, the COP program within NRE works differently than in most locations and is a Neighborhood Watch Committee.

Click here to read an overview of the program.

Volunteers are always needed.

Dumpster Program - Each spring, the community provides dumpsters for about a week. The program was so successful the first year that we have continued this program every year. In conjunction with this program, we also collect and recycle metals. Details will be published in the newsletters and also emailed to all property owners for the spring dumpster program.

You must be an Active Member who is current on your annual CNRE dues ($50) in order to utilize this program for FREE! If you are an Inactive Member, you may pay your annual CNRE dues in your login page and then dump your trash/junk for free, too. If you want to be a part of this event, please contact Annie Guereca, the Activities Committee Chair, at 817-691-0498 or aguereca1971@gmail.com to let her know in order to place your address on the list!

Community Clean Up - Each month our clean up committee sends email notifications and posts prominent signage signaling our volunteers that clean up Saturday is approaching--normally the second Saturday of each month, weather permitting. Various families and individuals have adopted streets or segments of streets as their areas to maintain by picking up litter, mowing, or both in order to keep our community in tip top shape. in addition to community pride, a clean neighborhood helps property presentation and valuation.

Good Samaritan Program - All new comers to Nolan River Estates are visited, usually in their first month of residency, by a member of our Board of Directors or the designated greeter for the association. He or she will solicit contact information for the new household, drop off a community directory and try to answer the new resident's questions if any. The greeter will pass on the new resident's contact information to the Good Sam representative who will make up a welcome gift for presentation to the new resident as soon as the gift is ready. In addition to a warm welcome, the new resident has at least two early visits to help become adjusted to our rural environment just outside the city limits of Cleburne, Texas.