Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
We all want value for our money, and never more so than for the biggest-ticket items. No item is more big ticket than a house, and as millions of baby boomers consider whether to take advantage of...
I read only one cartoon strip on a daily basis, the brilliant “Dilbert” by Scott Adams. I was first attracted to Dilbert during my career as a corporate executive. It was comforting to know that...
Unless you are 105 years old or stuffed all your money in your mattress before the housing and stock markets tanked around mid-decade, the last 10 years were the most financially nerve-wracking of...
More and more retirees and vacation home buyers are deciding that bigger is not necessarily better, but it sure is more expensive. That is why, with sales of McMansions languishing, developers are...
We awoke today to some signs that maybe the housing market is beginning to inch its way back, although the housing stimulus credit expiring in April and the cloudy unemployment picture could prove...
You just have to shake your head when you read about Credit Suisse, the huge bank that has made some colossally bad real estate loans -– with the emphasis on colossal. These are the folks who...
Voting by the Baseball Writers Association members has been completed for the 2010 induction of players into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The results will be announced this Wednesday. The outstanding...
One thing you can bet on at the end of every year is that the prognosticators will come out of the woodwork. And many of us will take those predictions as a hint that it might be time to sell or buy...
True golfers cannot imagine a life without golf. Other than a spouse who bars the door or locks our clubs away, nothing can keep us from a game. There is a course for every playing ability and every...
GolfCommunityReviews.com had its best year ever in terms of readership in 2009. Buoyed by a late Christmas present on December 28, when 1,600 Tiger Woods scandal-obsessed readers clicked over from an...
The motherlode for a modest little blog site like the one you are reading now is for another site that attracts thousands of readers daily to mention it. Yesterday, we hit the motherlode when Rick...
Many economists and real estate industry professionals are crediting the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit with preventing the housing market from falling totally off the cliff in the face of...