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You have arrived here because of the content of this page of information which is easily found by the search engines! Please let me know if there is any way that I may write more or give you more information on anything to help you better and faster obtain your real estate goals and purposes. Enjoy, Jody Hudson About this book: The entire thrust of this books seems to be that if you are living in an expensive area; just move, to a less expensive area such as the one here. OR, by the same token if things are too expensive here; sell your place here and move to a far less expensive area... Check out the interesting things that are written below... Jody ============= Retire in Style – Move!
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Retire in Style; 60
Outstanding Places across the USA and Canada Retire In Style - The Book from Amazon.com Click Here!
Seventy-six million
American and 10 million Canadian "baby boomers" born between 1946
and 1964 are moving toward retirement in an era of increasing
affluence and mobility. Providing information on 60 of the
communities that are most rich in amenities across North America,
this handy sourcebook guides retirees toward outstanding places to
spend their golden years. Careful consideration was given to the
final 12 criteria covered for each place—landscape, climate, quality
of life, cost of living, transportation, retail services, health
care, community services, cultural activities, recreational
activities, work/volunteer activities, and crime—and each review
includes a discussion of each characteristic as well as a city map
and climatic table. Structured regionally rather than
alphabetically, this revised and updated edition enables readers to
search similar options based on general areas in both the United
States and Canada. Warren R. Bland, PhD, is a professor of geography at California State University, Northridge and has traveled extensively doing geographical research across North America. He lives in Studio City, California. Here is an interesting article commenting upon the book by the publisher of the book: According to Warren Bland, PhD, an award-winning author and geographer at Cal State, people have a great option. It's called "equity-take" that is, the difference in cost of comparable housing between your present community and the more affordable one to which you could move. So, if you are willing to make that move, you can pocket a good chunk of money instead of delaying your retirement. Consider the person hailing from Buffalo, NY, where the average upper middle class home sells for around $250,000. In Thomasville, Georgia, one of the most desirable retirement places in the Atlantic Southeast, many attractive single-family residences in beautiful neighborhoods are selling for around $140,000. This means that you could net about $100,000 (assuming your mortgage is paid off) by relocating from snowy Buffalo to sunny southern Georgia, and increase your annual net income by $5,000 by investing in, for example, tax-free municipal bonds at 5 % annual interest. People living in expensive metropolitan areas like New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Chicago and Toronto are in an even better position to use "equity take" to their advantage. The average price of upper middle class housing exceeds $1million in Manhattan, $700,000 in Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area, and is around $500,000 in Boston and Toronto. In contrast, home prices in many highly desirable cities and towns, suitable for retirement and located in all parts of the country, are more likely to be in the $150,000 to $300,000 range. Even a relocation from Manhattan to Boca Raton, Florida (one of Bland's "top ten" retirement picks), could leave you with an equity-take of $500,000. Investing that windfall in tax-free municipal bonds at 5 % annual interest, will increase your annual income by $25,000. As Bland says, "You can buy a lot of wine, gourmet food and entertainment with that kind of money"! Barbara Kimmel is an award-winning book publisher, publishing consultant and publicist. She is the publisher of Warren Bland's book, Retire in Style 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada. Books are available through all major bookstores, amazon.com or http://www.nextdecade.com Below are the Reviews by customers from Amazon who read the book: Dr. Brand does a very thorough job of researching high quality places to retire. He includes many clear charts and provides lots of information in a variety of formats to assist readers in making their decisions. I especially appreciate his "folksy" approach, which includes not only compiling many pieces of statistical data in an easy-to-understand manner, but also represents discussions he had with residents of each city. A minor complaint is that a few of our favorite places didn't make "the cut," but I realize he had to draw the line somewhere. Good job overall -- and a good value for the money. Dr. Bland does a superb job of providing detailed place descriptions and an even balance of towns located in 23 states and 5 Canadian provinces. Dr. Bland has personally visited each location and applied 12 separate criteria to arrive at his ratings. This book is, by far, the most outstanding among its competitors. I like the way the author rates places - the criteria are good, the descriptions are good. My main complaint is that it is too East coast centric. I don't have the book in front of me, but there are more places listed for Florida than California. Ok, I live in California, so I'm biased, but my parents live in Florida & I've been there in the summer. Yuck. Now in a new expanded edition, Retire in Style: 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada rates the top towns and cities in America and Canada, based on the twelve most important criteria to retirees: landscape, climate, quality of life, cost of living, transportation, retail services, health care, community services, cultural and educational activities, recreational activities, work and volunteer activities, and crime rates and public safety. Written by award-winning geographer Warren R. Bland, Retire in Style discusses the pros and cons of each of its top cities in layman's terms, with a temperature chart indicating climate, a table of the various ratings, a simple map of the city and surrounding roads, a very brief summary of the city's history and distinguishing features, and a paragraph or two explaining the reasoning behind the rating in each category. An excellent, plain-terms, easy-to-use resource for surveying optimum places to relocate upon retirement. Having read several books in the area, this is, I believe, the very best. Professor Bland meticulously uses all the relevant criteria for evaluating the cities and, importantly, provides excellent summaries. He writes with such lucidity that one feels one knows the cities. The fact that he includes Canadian cities is a real plus. Overall, this is book is superb, analytically strong and highly accessible. This book will likely be a best seller. It deserves to be.
Jody Hudson, Realtor and Real Estate Agent Direct Line: cell - 302-542-4242 The Real Estate Broker that Jody works for; The Broker of Record is Virgil Brown. Virgil and his wife Nancy own Brown Real Estate Services, the company.
Jody is never, ever, in the office and takes no calls there.
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