55+ Retirement Community Blog

Sensei/Grasshopper Challenge - Google+ Help I saw the post ActiveRain Grasshopper Needs Help With Google+ Posting Problem and knew how to  do that, at least the way I do it.  Kristin Hamilton was having a problem posting her Active Rain blog post over to Google+.  That is certainly a problem sinc...

    Speechless Sunday - Selling on Craigslist I sold that desk and chair plus a few other things this month on Craigslist as I was clearing out stuff I don't need from my basement getting ready to have my home for sale eventually in the future as I plan to move to an 55 plus active adult communit...

    Wordless Wednesday - Games People Play No not those types of games you were thinking about that people play, like when they are working at corporate politics or a personal drama queen. These are games that people play when they retire at one of the active adult communities. These are fun game...

On My Planet - Tenants Would Pay the Rent on Time On my planet, tenants would pay the rent on time.  They would know the obligations of the lease and know that rent is due on the first of the month, not the 5th or the 10th but the 1st.  They would also pay with checks that were good and not be re...

                  Speechless Sunday - Bunny Still Has Ears It is 10AM Easter morning and Mary Ann's chocolate bunny still has ears! MA walked into the kitchen this morning and on the way to the coffee pot said "looks like the Easter bunny passed us up." That jogged my memory to get Mr. Bunny out ...

   Wordless Wednesday - Midtown Brass Ensemble   Last Thursday night The Midtwon Brass Ensemble under the sponsorship of the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra and a Arts Grant performed at Park Place Active Adult Center for us Boomers and Seniors. They were excellent but we had to open both sets of ...

   Speechless Sunday - Our Future Kitchen Here is the kitchen in the home in a Del Webb active adult community that we have contracted to buy on April 30, 2014.  It is contingent on closing two of our rental homes next week but they are under contract and past due diligence and things are looking...

     Wordless Wednesday - Easter Decorations This morning I played Bocce at Park Place Active Adult Center in Johns Creek GA and popped in the center for a while to wait on the rest of the players.  They also decorate so nicely especially these two trees in containers. Today one of the tree conta...

My First Real Estate Experience: Co-Listing a Mansion I had my accounting degree and working in the accounting department at Kemper Insurance's big regional office on Peachtree Street in Atlanta and in 1974 had gone back to college to get my AA in real estate and had just gotten my real estate li...