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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Golf Beside the Still Waters
Recently, my wife and I spent a wonderful three days on a Lake Champlain island in Vermont. Our room on North Hero Island –- named in honor of the heroic exploits of Ethan Allen and his Green...
How to Pay for Your Golf Home
by John Ruocco It is interesting that over the past few years, I have had several of my clients either buy second homes down South or simply pick up and move there. So, not surprisingly, one of the...
A Sweet Spot Price for Golf Homes
In just the last week, I have received inquiries from four customers, each of whom is looking for a resale golf home or a condo in a golf community. And all specified a price range of $250,000 to...
How to play a grand array of golf courses
I'm editing the initial draft of the main feature for the July edition of Home On The Course, our free monthly newsletter. The piece that I am calling "How to Play Smorgasbord Golf," details five...
Great Golf in the Carolinas a Matter of Geography
I am working on an article for CarolinaLiving.com about the golf ratings panels in North and South Carolina. Just a casual review of the panels' two rankings lists for 2014 shows one particular...
Thinking about remote golf communities...
Far out, far cheaper I had a conversation today with a real estate agent in Greensboro, GA, which is home to three excellent golf communities, all different in their own ways -– the large,...
5 Things Not to Worry About in Your Golf Home Search
The thoughts of moving to a new location and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it can cause stress and anxiety. There are plenty of things to worry about, such as costs of ownership...
June Newsletter: Investing for Retirement
The June edition of our free monthly newsletter, Home On The Course, will be emailed to hundreds of our subscribers shortly. If you are not yet a subscriber, now would be a good time to sign up....
Worst States Share One Thing In Common
We happened upon a couple of lists recently that were both titled, more or less, "Worst states for retirees." The two lists –- from MoneyRates.com and TopRetirements.com -– used entirely different...
Paradise Lost: Some "guaranteed" investments are not sure things
by John Ruocco This is the first in a series of articles by John Ruocco, a Connecticut-based financial advisor. Retirement havens like Florida are a paradise for financial advisors. The investment...
Don't worry, be happy, regardless of state income tax
There is an interesting discussion going on at TopRetirements.com about which places are best for retirement (not just golf communities but all communities). Some participating in the discussion...
Out With The Old? Some developers push dirt over re-sale homes
"People aren't stupid." That was what my wife said to me during a recent discussion about competition between a Walmart supermarket and the Whole Foods store across the street near our Connecticut...