Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
By the numbers, last week’s National Golf Industry Show in Orlando was a success. Total attendance for the combined products show and Golf Course Superintendents Association of America show passed...
Golf course operators are in a box, trapped by a series of cataclysmic events that came at them so fast that they had little time to react rationally. Most were unprepared to deal with a deep...
The National Golf Foundation has reported that for the fifth straight year, the U.S. suffered a net loss of golf courses. According to the NGF’s 2011 Golf Facilities in the U.S. report, 107...
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, All you have to do is call, And I'll be there, yes I will, You've got a friend. -– James Taylor The sky above Tiger Woods turned dark and full of clouds this week....
The residents of the Huntington Beach, CA, Seacliff golf community’s most upscale neighborhood may be wondering who let the dogs in. A home in the Peninsula section of Seacliff that had been...
For those within driving distance of Lake Wallenpaupack in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania –- a drive by car, not with a one-wood -- you might want to mark January 30 on your calendars. Face it;...
All the leverage in the current real estate development market, with money as tight as it is, is with the lender, if you can find one. The Cliffs Communities has found one to help them restructure...
Before I visit a golf community -– and I have visited more than 140 over the last five years –- I conduct research in advance to prepare probing and tough questions for golf community developers,...
'til Debt Do Us Part Award Winner: Cliffs Communities, upstate SC and NC Runner-Up: Balsam Mtn. Preserve, Waynesville, NC Unlike the mythical Icarus, who flew too high and fell to earth, Jim...
Toby Tobin, our favorite Florida real estate blogger, picked up our story about the suspension of spending on many of the uncompleted amenities at The Cliffs Communities. In the article, we...
I received an email recently pitching a home for sale in Ocean Ridge Plantation, the multi-golf course community about 45 minutes north of Myrtle Beach and under an hour from Wilmington, NC. With...
Everything is relative, including weather (especially weather). In the last few weeks, a couple of readers from Chicago have asked me to help them find golf community homes in the southeastern...