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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Mother Nature Fools Again
As I write this, our deck is covered in about 16 inches of snow where it hasn’t drifted, thanks to high winds, to over 2 ½ feet. Just one week ago, some of the Hartford, CT, area golf courses...
How to Find a Golf Home This Year
All sorts of conditions are conspiring to make this a good year for those considering purchase of a golf home to get it done. Interest rates are still low, if you plan to borrow money; home prices...
Cheap airfares put Scottish club membership within reach
Those inveterate golfers who love links golf in Scotland probably understand that many of the best golf courses on the Old Sod offer overseas memberships that are inexpensively priced. But for many...
Fill your tank in SC, not in NC and FL...and certainly not in PA
Baby boomers in search of reducing their expenses across the board may want to look beyond North Carolina to its neighbor immediately to the South. A recent Wall Street Journalarticle, citing The...
Safe to Play: How to Gauge the Health of a Country Club
I have been reading lately about many golf courses that are being threatened with development. This is personal to me in that the golf course where I learned to play the game in New Jersey was...
Business Insider: Best cities for Bargain Homes
It is a brutal reality of real estate pricing that the desirability of a particular area generally determines price. It makes sense; if many people want to live in a certain place, demand goes up. If...
The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants
Ya Gotta Have Heart; I Almost Didn’t. To anyone searching this site for new material the last couple of weeks, my apologies. But I have a pretty good excuse. I had unscheduled quadruple bypass...
Thinking of Buying a Golf Home in the Next Two Years?
In many of the top golf communities in the Southeastern U.S., prices rose in 2016. In some places the increases were more than 10%, in others in the five percent range. For a variety of reasons,...
Thinking of Buying a Golf Home in the Next Two Years?
In many of the top golf communities in the Southeastern U.S., prices rose in 2016. In some places the increases were more than 10%, in others in the five percent range. For a variety of reasons,...
No Time Like the Right Time to List Your Home
I read articles over the weekend that reminded me of a couple of items that should be on homeowners’ minds as the get ready to put their homes on the market (and, perhaps, move to a warmer climate)....
The consumer view of whether now is the right time to buy
When it comes to the right time to buy a home, I trust the consumer’s point of view every bit as much as the so-called housing experts. After all, the consumer has skin in the game. That is why a...
Can Home-Free Golf Courses Last?
Golf courses that thread their way through housing developments have always come under criticism from serious reviewers –- as well as many of the rest of us -- who see homes beside golf courses as...