Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
In just the last week, I have received inquiries from four customers, each of whom is looking for a resale golf home or a condo in a golf community. And all specified a price range of $250,000 to...
I'm editing the initial draft of the main feature for the July edition of Home On The Course, our free monthly newsletter. The piece that I am calling "How to Play Smorgasbord Golf," details five...
I am working on an article for CarolinaLiving.com about the golf ratings panels in North and South Carolina. Just a casual review of the panels' two rankings lists for 2014 shows one particular...
Far out, far cheaper I had a conversation today with a real estate agent in Greensboro, GA, which is home to three excellent golf communities, all different in their own ways -– the large,...
The thoughts of moving to a new location and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it can cause stress and anxiety. There are plenty of things to worry about, such as costs of ownership...
The June edition of our free monthly newsletter, Home On The Course, will be emailed to hundreds of our subscribers shortly. If you are not yet a subscriber, now would be a good time to sign up....
We happened upon a couple of lists recently that were both titled, more or less, "Worst states for retirees." The two lists –- from MoneyRates.com and TopRetirements.com -– used entirely different...
by John Ruocco This is the first in a series of articles by John Ruocco, a Connecticut-based financial advisor. Retirement havens like Florida are a paradise for financial advisors. The investment...
There is an interesting discussion going on at TopRetirements.com about which places are best for retirement (not just golf communities but all communities). Some participating in the discussion...
"People aren't stupid." That was what my wife said to me during a recent discussion about competition between a Walmart supermarket and the Whole Foods store across the street near our Connecticut...
If I knew I was going to move from the next house I buy within a year or two, I'd strongly consider renting it. And if the rental was furnished in a way I could live with, all the better; I'd put my...
Many mature golf communities aren't getting older; they're getting better. And, relatively speaking, cheaper, for a number of reasons. In the April edition of Home On The Course, our free monthly...