55+ Retirement Community Blog

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...

Speechless Sunday - Beatlemania Last night my wife Mary Ann and I went to Beatlemania Now!  My wife is a big Beatles fan and is the one who booked this concert. Plenty of other Beatles fans in attendance, covering probably three generations. It was actually fun and the singers were good. Ringo's ...

Cresswind at Victoria Gardens Here's a new community to check out near the Orlando Florida area. It is developed by Kolter and looks like a very inviting place for an active Florida retirement. The community has natural beauty and all the features of a top active adult community that us active ad...

Wordless Wednesday - Spring Gardening This is the community gardens at Newtown Park next to Park Place active adult center. I took this photo this AM while visiting the park. My friend Don just helped load and distribute all those bags of Cow manure to each plot a day ago. There is a big bin of m...

    Speechless Sunday - Patio in Early Spring What a nice day here in Atlanta today. It only got up to 61 degrees what was clear most of the day. Back yard patio needs a little work but you can see the Spring flowers pushing out new growth already.  A little debris removal, new mulch, and some fe...