Boomers On The Move

Choosing an area in which to retire can be difficult. There are many great choices available to you. But you can use these tips to narrow your choices down and eventually make a final decision on a place that fits your lifestyle and budget, suits your housing needs and desires, and that you’ll love for [...]

Over the next several days and weeks I’ll be posting chapters from “The Ultimate Retirement Community Buyer’s Guide“. This is the entire text of the book (excluding the many buyer worksheets and checklists that are in there) completely free for you to read. In a few short weeks I plan to make available a printed [...]

55-plus communities are communities where the majority of the homeowners are over the age of 55. In most states, for a community to qualify for the 55-plus designation and to be marketed as such, at least 80 percent of the units have to be occupied by at least one person over 55. A common misconception [...]

So if you’re like most Boomers, your future retirement community probably will have a golf course, and many of you will shell out thousands in lot premiums to buy a home that is actually on the golf course. That would be perfect right? Maybe not all the time.

Lots of people who visit and read this blog regularly originally came here because of information I have posted about The Villages retirement community in central Florida. Well, The Villages just got a little more famous. This past weekend the Wall Street Journal published a review of Leisureville: Adventures in America’s Retirement Utopias.

Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life by Barbara Corcoran drops this month and I was given a copy by the publisher to review. You should also know that Barbara was kind enough to provide a quote for the advertising of my book, Florida for Boomers: A Guide to Real Estate.

TopRetirements has a good article here that talks about the pros and cons of retirement community living. A compilation of input gathered from boomers who have lived the community experience, the article does not try to scare you from exploring the active adult retirement options available to you, but it does give you some things [...]

Image Credit: JohnMuir of flickr In recent weeks there have been several articles in major newspapers and media talking about boomers who are looking to the Rocky Mountain West, including the states of Wyoming and Montana, for retirement. Because these destinations aren’t as popular as say, Florida, its hard to find quality information on retirement [...]

No doubt about it, green is in. And not just the color…the movement. And why shouldn’t it be baby boomers at the forefront? Read about the Wolf Creek Lodge [via TreeHugger] in Grass Valley, California. The Wolf Creek Lodge is a “Cohousing” community for active adults. If you’ve never heard of cohousing, here’s a description [...]

Wanted to let all Boomers on the Move readers know about this great community in Central Florida… When you’re On Top of the World you’ll discover truly unsurpassed, active adult living in scenic Ocala, Florida. Amid gently rolling hills, magnificent horse farms, majestic oak hammocks and crystal clear springs, On Top of the World Communities [...]