Boomers On The Move

This post is a Boomer Alert! Wow. This just shows how busy I am. I just discovered that 411 isn’t free anymore from my house phone. Where have I been? And how long has AT&T been charging me for this? AT&T charged me $1.35 EACH for 3 calls to directory assistance. I didn’t even really [...]

The Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine is a “can’t miss” for baby boomers thinking of heading to Florida soon. The hotel, while on the expensive side, is worth every penny. Located in Florida’s most historic city, The Casa Monica is part of the Kessler Collection and a member of Preferred Hotels and Resorts. There’s [...]

Here is an article from The New York Times Online that reiterates some of the main themes of the Homeowners Insurance chapter of my “for Boomers” books. The main tips:1) Start shopping for insurance early in the home buying process.2) Do plenty of research.3) Don’t forget about flood insurance. Continue reading:Insuring Second Homes – New [...]

The University of Florida has introduced a new hurricane simulator unlike anything that has been available before it. The $500,000 machine can simulate the force of a Category 1 through Category 5 Hurricane with the flick of a switch. Continue reading about the UF simulator… Texas Tech has a Wind Science and Engineering Research Center [...]

For any of you considering moving to South America, namely Buenos Aires, I’ve recently discovered a great blog written by Will Bonner. Actually I found this through a daily e-zine I subscribe to called Early to Rise, available at http://www.earlytorise.com If you go to Will’s blog, what you’ll find is a true and unflinching daily [...]

Well, if you follow Florida real estate at all, you’ve probably long since heard that Florida passed some new property tax laws a few weeks ago. What you may NOT know, however, is what to make of it. For what it’s worth, here’s my take on it. 1) To begin, what was done probably wasn’t [...]

If your home is worth $1 million or more, there is a new company that wants your homeowners insurance business. The company is called PURE. Read an article about it from the Naples Daily News. PURE says that they can offer the owners of “high-value property” better insurance rates than they might otherwise find on [...]

The reviews keep rolling in: “If you’re a baby boomer thinking about buying a home in Florida, this is your blueprint.” -Barbara Corcoran, NBC’s Today Show Real Estate Correspondent “…over the next 25 years or so, the Sunshine State can expect over 22.5 million new boomer residents. Each and every one should own a copy [...]

Florida Governor Charlie Christ’s first legislative session has ended without any sign of property tax relief in the immediate future. A special session has been called for June, but consensus here is that not much will come from it. The best most lawmakers think they can agree on in that session would be a roll-back [...]

From FloridaCapitalNews.com: “TALLAHASSEE — Legislative negotiators officially declared gridlock Tuesday on the radical idea of abolishing all property taxes on resident homeowners by raising sales taxes – the centerpiece of House Speaker Marco Rubio’s reform.House Republicans have refused to budge from their demands to give a whopping multibillion-dollar relief plan to voters, while the Senate [...]