Boomers On The Move

I get several emails a week from different retirement communities and other developments offering deals to come and stay with them for a few nights to check the place out. I like to share some of the best deals here with my readers. Today I got an email from Mount Vintage Plantation in North Augusta, [...]

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 [...]

Condos by vgm8383 A Miami Realtor is being sued by a Miami condo developer for the tidy sum of $25 million, over comments the Realtor made on his blog about the developer “filing for bankruptcy in the ’80′s and his current condo project possibly being in trouble.” From what I’ve read about people being sued [...]

As of 11:40 p.m. the precincts are still reporting, but it looks like Amendment 1 (Florida’s Property Tax Reform Amendment) has passed by a pretty wide margin. So, let’s recap again what this Amendment means: “Doubles” the homestead exemption from $25,000 to $50,000. However, the 2nd $25k does not apply to school taxes (~30% of [...]

Two weeks from today on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Floridians will step into the voting booths… hanging chads and all… and decide on an important property tax measure. If approved, the measure, among other things, will serve two main purposes: 1) It will “double” the homestead exemption from $25,000 to $50,000 (Uh, not really double…read [...]

What a scary time to be a buyer in the real estate market right now. While everyone knows it’s a buyers market, the deals are great, and prices are falling faster than a rock, you still have to be careful about taking that final leap and putting a contract on a new home someplace warm. [...]

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 [...]

Came across this article in The Villages Daily Sun about homes that have been built since 2002 in The Villages exceeding the required construction standards. While homes in the area where The Villages is located need to be built to withstand 100 mph winds, they are engineered and built to withstand 110 mph winds. Wa-la-ya [...]

On the heals of my post the other day about possible real estate market optimism for 2008, Bloomberg has a report today saying things will get worse in 2008. According to some experts quoted in the article hope for a turnaround in 2009…at best. Bad news for homebuilders, mortgage lenders and the like. Good news [...]

I’m skeptical when I hear that all of a sudden, despite credit and mortgage woes galore, that the housing market is all of a sudden going to get better in 2008. Especially when the folks preaching this info. are “in the biz”. Believe me, I want it to get better too. But pretending like it [...]