Boomers On The Move

A few months back I blogged about the proposed North Carolina transfer tax and what it would mean to buyers and sellers in North Carolina. Yesterday the people had their say in 16 North Carolina Counties and unanimously defeated the measure. This paves the way for North Carolina to continue to be a lower cost [...]

The saying has always been…”You can pick your house, but you can’t pick your neighbors.” Well not anymore. A new real estate search site has emerged and you can find it at rottenneighbors.com You start by entering either the name of a city, and exact address or street name, even a zip code, then hit [...]

When you are having a new home built, ideally what will happen is that you’ll pay a deposit (usually 10-20%) of what the price of the house is, and when the house is complete, you’ll pay the rest of the price at closing. Sometimes, usually with smaller builders who don’t have large enough credit lines [...]

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 [...]

If you’re a baby boomer thinking of retiring to the Carolina’s or buying a second home there, you won’t only be choosing a great location, but it might make sense financially. Forbes just ranked three Carolina cities “most affordable” as far as real estate is concerned. My next book, Carolinas for Boomers due out later [...]

Back today with another lens for you to check out. This time we explore Reunion Resort, near Orlando, developed by the Ginn Company. View the Reunion Resort Lens at http://www.squidoo.com/reunionresort Readers of Florida for Boomers will recognize Reunion as one of the “Resort and Club” communities mentioned in the book. Just like our lens for [...]

Do you know what the internet’s most searched for Florida retirement community is? It’s The Villages, one of many popular of central Florida retirement communities. The internet is loaded with information about The Villages but sometimes searching online can just get overwhelming. To solve this problem, I’ve put together a complete 117 page guide for [...]

I’m proud to say that Florida for Boomers has just been featured in Mark Zilbert’s Miami Real Estate Update newsletter. For those of you not familiar with Mark, he is one of the premier condo brokers in South Florida. He has been featured on the Today Show, 20/20, The Wall Street Journal, and I interviewed [...]

My new book, Florida for Boomers: A Guide to Real Estate has just been released on Amazon.com. Click here to buy it! In celebration of its release, I’ll be posting free excerpts on this blog from the book in the coming days and weeks. If you prefer not to wait, you can read the excerpts [...]

Zillow.com, the home pricing service I talk about in Florida for Boomers, is coming under fire in Arizona. The Arizona Board of Property Appraisers has just issued cease and desist letters to Zillow. The service has drawn the ire of many real estate professionals because they fear it may undermine their stranglehold on home price [...]