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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Crystal Springs Resort: Second-home paradise for golf and wine connoisseurs
Children change everything. For a couple whose working lives were pointed eventually toward a year-round home on a golf course in a warm weather climate, their mindset can change when their...
Going aTwitter over golf community reviews
In recognition that many folks are on vacation this month and may not want to spend too much time online, the August Home On The Course newsletter -– subscribe for free by clicking here –- will...
Balls to the walls…and the roof, windows and backyard guests
The Camarillo, CA, Spanish Hills Country Club advertises on its website that “The Lifestyle You Deserve Is Just Around The Corner.” No one deserves the lifestyle at the midpoint of the golf...
The road back for Lido Golf Club (Part 2)
The fairways, sad to say, are what keep the Lido Golf Club from being more than an “interesting” golf course, at least for now. The current condition of the fairways does not permit of anything...
Lido Golf Club history includes C. B. Macdonald, a Pink Lady, and Sandy
True links golf is hard to come by in the U.S., especially near urban areas like New York. With few exceptions, golf courses built on sandy soil near an ocean and within commuting distance of a big...
And we thought golf was slow
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an exposé of major league baseball that has nothing to do with steroids. An average baseball game, the article “Play Ball….Please” indicates, lasts 2 hours and 58...
When one golf home just won’t do…
You have worked hard all your life and looked forward to a retirement of leisure and year-round golf. You don’t deserve the stress of having to choose between your dreams and your family, and yet...
Mortgage interest rate rise not big issue for some buyers
The National Association of Realtors says hesitant homebuyers are pulling the trigger on purchases because mortgage interest rates are starting to rise. Their opinion is based on their own Pending...
Country Roads Take Me Home to Berkshire Hills Golf Course Worthy of Long Drive
Golfers who vacation in the Berkshire Mountains area near where the Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York state borders intersect are in luck. That’s because Copake Country Club, in Craryville,...
Faint Praise: For magazine’s “best” communities, it pays to advertise
Around this time every year, my email inbox begins to fill with messages from planned communities bragging about how they have been named one of the 50 best master planned communities by Where to...
Golf home lots to sell at online auction
Included in our mailbox last week was a flyer from Auction.com touting an upcoming online auction of lots in some very familiar golf communities in the Carolinas. Coincidentally, stuck among lots in...
The customers speak, and we thank them
The best way for an Internet-based service like ours to convince potential customers to become real customers is with testimonials from satisfied customers. We received a wonderful, unsolicited...