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GolfWeek cover memorable for wrong reason
This week, I have been thinking about great magazine covers of the past that pushed the boundaries of good taste and sense. Unless you have been sleeping in a cave or playing golf in Nepal, you...
Zillow weep for me: Real estate voyeurs' tool debuted in good times, bitter pill in bad
Zillow.com, the online real estate site that estimates and tracks the value of more than 70 million homes in the U.S., was like a recreational narcotic when it debuted two years ago. After a busy,...
Charting lower costs: Helpful table provides city comparisons
There are plenty of ways people can reduce their costs of living. The simplest but toughest is to stop spending as much. But changing your lifestyle is difficult and depressing, no matter how...
Rent with option to buy...or not
Many of us -- not me -- are too young to remember that Knoxville played host to a World's Fair in 1982. It has come a long way since. It is no surprise that the highest priced markets for apartment...
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Proximity, privacy and logic not factors in T&L Golf's sloppily researched community rankings
The Ford Plantation, whose Pete Dye course is one of his most restrained and best designs, made theTravel & Leisure Golf magazine's list of top 100 golf communities in the U.S. Travel & Leisure...
Golf and the race for the U.S. Presidency
It is looking more and more like we will not have a golfer in the White House come January 2009 (not that we have one now). That's too bad; the nation typically seems at peace when a golfer is...
Free lodging in private homes around the world
The Internet, as we all know, is one giant marketplace. Houses, cars, golf clubs, entire golf courses, Russian brides...virtually everything is available on the world wide web. To steal a line from...
Brutal reality of golf course ownership
For those of us with Walter Mitty dreams of running our own golf course, the story of Parkland Golf Club in Greenwood, SC, sends a sober chill up the spine. After more than 20 years, the course has...
The opposite of the "sky is falling"
I know I am guilty of harping about how real estate industry economists drink their own bath water. But when they drink each other's, it is especially distasteful, sickening really. There is no...
California, Florida population growths slowing to trickle
Texas is the 7th fastest growing state, thanks to no state income tax and still reasonable real estate prices. Austin is growing as fast as the rest of the state, thanks to attractive golf...