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WEB OFFERS WINDOW SHOPPING
 
SECOND HOME TREND?  Window Shopping for second homes seems to have morphed into a slightly different form. Buyers shop...look at houses...waterfront lots, but the last 3 out-of-state leads I've received from my blog at AR are doing some considerable travel coming from greater distances to check us out. Typically, our area around Shell Knob attracts people from neighboring states trying to find the perfect vacation/retirement lake home within a convenient distance of their current domicile
 
I knew we were receiving a large number of Californians wanting to achieve a lower cost of living, and that does seem to be what is driving Baby Boomers to check into living in the Midwest. There was a family from Maryland looking to leave the heavy traffic and higher cost of living in the East. Then a lady from Montana wanting warmer climes. She checked out Alabama last year and the Ozarks this year. This week a family from Arizona flew in to see what the Branson-Shell Knob area of Table Rock Lake had to offer. I believe they were or had already checked out Tennessee.  
All of these potential buyers had done extensive searching on the net, and were much better prepared to ... more

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