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Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Saturday, December 1, 2012
A Tree for the Holidays..
Have you ever sent the same Christmas card out 2 years in a row. I thought I could never do that. However, this year I find myself without a photo that could possibly be better than the one from last year.
In my opinion, there really is no more beautiful place at Christmas than this place: New York City
I wish all of my visitors Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays-- and thank you for visiting this year.
..and I hope we can all look forward to a healthy, happy and successful 2012...maybe it will be your year to find your retirement home.
Carol,
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A New Home for Christmas at Retirement Communities
Being home for Christmas is easier than ever at your retirement community. This is the time of year best for choosing a home from the builder's inventory and especially from ready-to-move-in homes.
Your builder is anxious to deplete their stock of new homes waiting for a buyer.
There are often additional incentives and interest rates are at an all-time low. End-of-year inventory may have further discounts. You need to ask though.
I'm seeing some unbelievable prices in areas previously very exclusive and upscale. This, in part, is due to builders adding on some smaller square footage plans that cost way less.
There's still time but hurry since moving you in will take time in many different ways: Getting your financing if necessary, a final move-in check, adding any special features you may want and more all require time.
At least when you buy a new home, you may receive warranties not available on a resale or foreclosure home. But be sure to ask if there are warranties whether new or resale.
Today when you buy new, you may also receive more energy-saving features than homes that are ten years older since these features are more popular now.
For those finding savings in resale or foreclosure homes, there are plenty of vacant homes just waiting for a buyer. Some of these homes are often already in marketing condition with fresh paint and/or carpeting if carpet is the floor covering. Many homeowners have found it necessary to install new fixtures and features to get a sale such as granite countertops, which continue to be appealing to buyers.
Of course moving in quickly may not be an option if you have a home to sell. But some communities may be able to advise you and some even offer solutions. But always check with real estate experts.
Most retirees pay all cash for their home and that eliminates the time it takes to get a mortgage. Builders may have their own financing department. Ask your builder how fast you can expect to move into your new home.
At some communities, it is still time to be in a new home and lifestyle for Christmas but probably best to visit this weekend.
Your builder is anxious to deplete their stock of new homes waiting for a buyer.
There are often additional incentives and interest rates are at an all-time low. End-of-year inventory may have further discounts. You need to ask though.
I'm seeing some unbelievable prices in areas previously very exclusive and upscale. This, in part, is due to builders adding on some smaller square footage plans that cost way less.
There's still time but hurry since moving you in will take time in many different ways: Getting your financing if necessary, a final move-in check, adding any special features you may want and more all require time.
At least when you buy a new home, you may receive warranties not available on a resale or foreclosure home. But be sure to ask if there are warranties whether new or resale.
Today when you buy new, you may also receive more energy-saving features than homes that are ten years older since these features are more popular now.
For those finding savings in resale or foreclosure homes, there are plenty of vacant homes just waiting for a buyer. Some of these homes are often already in marketing condition with fresh paint and/or carpeting if carpet is the floor covering. Many homeowners have found it necessary to install new fixtures and features to get a sale such as granite countertops, which continue to be appealing to buyers.
Of course moving in quickly may not be an option if you have a home to sell. But some communities may be able to advise you and some even offer solutions. But always check with real estate experts.
Most retirees pay all cash for their home and that eliminates the time it takes to get a mortgage. Builders may have their own financing department. Ask your builder how fast you can expect to move into your new home.
At some communities, it is still time to be in a new home and lifestyle for Christmas but probably best to visit this weekend.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!
This year I am in Virginia:
One daughter is in Los Angeles:
aAnd the other daughter is in Long Island:
These are all beautiful places and good for retirement too. Is your family like us with family all over the country. I wish my family could be closer and I do envy those who live close together at holiday time. But with communications better today than ever before, I am "staying connected," and finding it isn't too bad (except at holiday time.) So wherever you happen to be this Thanksgiving holiday, we wish you and yours much happiness and we hope you find the retirement community of your dreams. Carol
Bestguide-RetirementCommunities p.s. I hope you like the new look to our website--more changes to come.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Remembering 9/11..
On 9/11/2001, a full ten years ago, I was in California. I was asleep in my bed on a brightly lit morning in LA. I can still feel the warm sun of that morning filling every corner of the room. It amazes me that I can remember the details as if it were yesterday. I cannot remember the day before or the day after but I remember that day.
On the West Coast, people were just starting to wake up. On the East Coast the work day was well on its way. My daughter came into my bedroom and told me I should get up because there was something on television that was important. I shrugged off her first call, not wanting to interrupt a drowsy slumber. But when she came in a second time a few moments later, her tone was more desperate. "Mom, get up and come see this."
The TV was blaring at that early hour as I lumbered into the living room wondering what could be so important. Then I saw it. I remember staring with disbelief. What is that, I thought. Why are they playing that scene over and over. What are they saying. Is that a movie. I have never seen anything like that--and I hope I never will again-- anything anywhere near like that.
My daughter had to go off to college class, leaving me staring at the TV screen, totally stunned, and my mind still not wanting to accept this reality. The pictures were so much like a movie.
I had to get ready for work but I sat there for quite some time listening to the events as they happened, one by one rising like some crescendo--the buildings, people jumping out of buildings, my mind denying what it was watching, the Pentagon, the crash in Pennsylvania, and then the impossible: 2 buildings completely collapsing.
I was safely 3 thousand miles away and I was watching people I didn't know inside those buildings and people one second away from the terror, some losing their lives.
I saw the disbelieving look on the faces of people in NYC, that great city, that no one could visit without loving some part of it. The people of NYC, one community of people who had something in common--their love of that city and their love for humanity. You couldn't live there or visit there without feeling it was a city different from all others. That humanity was struck on that day, 9/11.
We don't just remember the horror of that day, we remember the love of so many--the unselfish giving of ones lives for others, the helping of others, as well as the awful selfishness of those who took lives away forever and caused so much pain.
That is why when we think of 911, we think of the light coming from the terrible darkness of that day.
God bless America.
On the West Coast, people were just starting to wake up. On the East Coast the work day was well on its way. My daughter came into my bedroom and told me I should get up because there was something on television that was important. I shrugged off her first call, not wanting to interrupt a drowsy slumber. But when she came in a second time a few moments later, her tone was more desperate. "Mom, get up and come see this."
The TV was blaring at that early hour as I lumbered into the living room wondering what could be so important. Then I saw it. I remember staring with disbelief. What is that, I thought. Why are they playing that scene over and over. What are they saying. Is that a movie. I have never seen anything like that--and I hope I never will again-- anything anywhere near like that.
My daughter had to go off to college class, leaving me staring at the TV screen, totally stunned, and my mind still not wanting to accept this reality. The pictures were so much like a movie.
I had to get ready for work but I sat there for quite some time listening to the events as they happened, one by one rising like some crescendo--the buildings, people jumping out of buildings, my mind denying what it was watching, the Pentagon, the crash in Pennsylvania, and then the impossible: 2 buildings completely collapsing.
I was safely 3 thousand miles away and I was watching people I didn't know inside those buildings and people one second away from the terror, some losing their lives.
I saw the disbelieving look on the faces of people in NYC, that great city, that no one could visit without loving some part of it. The people of NYC, one community of people who had something in common--their love of that city and their love for humanity. You couldn't live there or visit there without feeling it was a city different from all others. That humanity was struck on that day, 9/11.
We don't just remember the horror of that day, we remember the love of so many--the unselfish giving of ones lives for others, the helping of others, as well as the awful selfishness of those who took lives away forever and caused so much pain.
That is why when we think of 911, we think of the light coming from the terrible darkness of that day.
God bless America.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Memorial Day is a Time to Remember
God Bless America rings in our ears with as much earnest today as ever. Today and every day we say God Bless our men and women in uniform and all those who have sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy today.
We know our country is a blessed one because of all the freedoms and dignity we know here as human beings. No one can take that from us unless we let them. We know even more today how important it is to remain ever vigilant and those who have sacrificed are an example in courage for those going forward.
Our country is unique and so are our military men and women.
Thank you to all of them and thank God for them.
We have Military Retirement Communities just for our military.
We know our country is a blessed one because of all the freedoms and dignity we know here as human beings. No one can take that from us unless we let them. We know even more today how important it is to remain ever vigilant and those who have sacrificed are an example in courage for those going forward.
Our country is unique and so are our military men and women.
Thank you to all of them and thank God for them.
We have Military Retirement Communities just for our military.
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