Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Golf community developers and real estate agencies have to give the people what they want. Back in their heyday, what potential buyers wanted were amenities. A perfectly fine golf community selling...
Played Old Marsh Golf Club in Wells, ME, today. In many ways, the course is a combination of classic and modern touches. The plentiful fairway sand bunkers are festooned with long, thick grasses...
With apologies to Lao-tzu and his Tao Te Ching (the 2,500 year old Book of Wisdom) by Rick Vogel Golf is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot...
I am headed to The Manor golf resort in rural Virginia next week to watch a two-day college golf tournament hosted by Hampden-Sydney College. Back in the heyday of planned community development,...
We wrote here the other day that International Living magazine had anointed Ecuador as the best place for Americans to settle in retirement. In its latest issue, AARP magazine provides its take on the...
I subscribe to International Living magazine, and in the publication’s September issue, the editors rank countries by their suitability as retirement destinations. The annual “retirement index”...
Economists and the man on the street generally agree that the housing market will not recover until the jobs market does. An unemployment rate of 9.5% is not going to help chip away at the inventory...
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. -– Calvin, of the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” When my wife isn’t looking, I move some of the...
According to a recent study, Durham, NC, Huntsville, AL, Knoxville, TN, and Winston-Salem, NC, are among the 10 best markets in which to invest in residential real estate. Local Market Monitor, a...
Despite a decades-long population shift north to south, airlines have been slow to build into their schedules non-stop flights to the most popular southern vacation and retirement spots. An...
Focus is the key to success in all professional sports. Try hitting a rising 97 MPH fastball while wondering if your sick father will survive the night in hospital. Or thread through 200 MPH...
The Cliffs, the high-end group of golf communities in the upstate region of South Carolina and the Asheville, NC, area, is running a membership special. The next 50 members will pay “just”...