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    I received an email from a real estate agent in North Carolina tonight, the first of many such appeals I expect to receive in the coming days and weeks.     "I just wanted to drop you a line to say we...

    I am not writing a golf course review or about real estate today.  Instead, as a public service, I am writing about writing about golf communities and real estate.  And here is the message:  Writing on a...

New Bern, NC, may not have made CNN/Money's best-and-least-expensive-towns-near-water list, but the folks who live in the community of Taberna would feel differently.     Over the weekend, friends...

    Scores of Bernard Madoff's clients are asking themselves today how they could have trusted the former wunderkind with their collective billions of dollars (see Friday's article below).  These were...

    In "The Snows of Kilamanjaro," author Ernest Hemingway fictionalizes an alleged conversation he had with fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.     Fitzgerald:  "The rich are different from you and me."...

 A mountain home in the Connestee Falls golf community in North Carolina is currently on the market for $530,000.  With a 20% down payment, monthly principle and interest on a 4.5% loan would be...

    While waiting for my car to be serviced this morning, I noted a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal for the Apple iPhone.  I own an Apple iPhone, which I use as a way to check emails, my...

Greg Norman's golf course at the community he is developing, Tennessee National, features many bunkers with stacked sod faces reminiscent of some of his favorite courses in the British Open...

    Most Americans outside the auto industry probably had never heard of Rick Wagoner until he flew his corporate jet to Washington to ask for a few billion dollars to save the company he runs, General...

    I will never forget my early morning car drive to one of the six golf courses at The Landings in Georgia a few years ago.  Golf carts appeared to the left of me, the right of me, and in front of me. ...

    Who among us has not at some time said, "Damn, if I had only waited" or, "Damn, if I had only bought (or sold) a year ago?"  I bought a few shares of Apple three years ago around $45, sold at $65,...

  Some homes in golf communities, like Southbridge, near Savannah, are starting to make the foreclosure lists.  Georgia does not have a right to redemption law but, in some states, an owner who has...