55+ Retirement Community Blog

Chris Webster from North Myrtle Beach SC caught my attention with his post about the Shag Capital. This got my interest because my wife Mary Ann and I am taking Shag dance lessons right now at the Atlanta Shag Club and we have heard people talking about the Spring and Fall migration to Myrtle Bea...

Famous for steel, the first oil find in America, and home to our founding fathers, Pennsylvania is weaved into many of the major events in American History. With the massive steel mills that used to belch black smoke into the Pittsburgh sky and the Philadelphia bankers of yore, many things have c...

I have visited many active adult communities in Atlanta, but the one I probably like the best is Village at Deaton Creek, a Del Webb 55+ community.  Like most active adult communities it is located on the outskirts of the metro area, in a small community called Hoschton, in Jackson County GA.  I...

OK I am looking back to Jan 1992 when I left my employer and started Residential Property Management,  Inc., a residential property management company managing single family homes.  For the first year it was only me, doing cold calls and trying to get started.  I went from 4 homes to 40 homes in ...

It's raining here this morning, so I stayed in and did a blog post for my Boomer Places blog called Energy Drinks for Boomers.  Yes, I know that is a strange topic to blog about but I try to write, at least on the Boomer Places blog about what is happening in my life as an older boomer (age 65). ...

A marketing firm representing AARP invited me to the Life@50+ event in Atlanta that is taking place Oct 3-5, 2013.  They are inviting about 10 Baby Boomer bloggers to attend the expo and get VIP passes, access to the speaking events, AARP University sessions and interview their speakers and vendo...

As an agent you want to point out the benefits of moving to the community you are marketing and 55+ communities have some unique benefits.Your clients probably already know the reasons for their interest in moving to a 55+ Community but it wouldn't hurt to give them a few more in case they haven...

Best Small Towns Draws Retirees These days you read that cities are growing and small towns are disappearing.  Young people are moving to the cities to get a job.  That is what I did 40+ years ago, so I understand that.  But the best small towns have a lot to offer and retiring to one of them is ...

55 Community Guide started out as a directory of 55+ communities.  Then we discovered that agents, owners and mangers had individual homes within a 55+ community they wanted to sell.  There was really no special place for those listings on the Internet so we added 55+ Homes for Sale and also  an...

There is an interesting article in the WSJ about how to choose your retirement destination with the explanation "The Experts weigh in.".   They had my interests until I saw some of the experts included Suzanne Somers and Morgan Fairchild.  Wow, just wow. However the expert list did include credi...