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January 3, 2023 – Tom Brady, QB of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (or cousin Tom as we call him in our family), is 45.5 years old, having a pretty darn good season, with his team atop the NFC South standings. By all historical measures, he is a freak, performing as…
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Category: Real Estate Listings
January 3, 2022 — As if the death and destruction that Hurricane Ian brought to Florida’s Gulf Coast wasn’t bad enough, it has created another looming problem for beleaguered property owners. Greedy developers and wealthy buyers are headed to the region, hoping to snap up coastal real estate to turn…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
January 8, 2023 — We got some great followup on our October article about the Shedders Movement. Shedders refers to guys (and gals) getting together in retirement to hang out and work on all kinds of projects (often in a shed). This particular input comes from my wife’s cousin,…
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Category: Medicare
By Tom Cretella – CLU at Cretella and Belowsky January 9, 2023 — Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period began January 1. Medicare has plenty of acronyms: AEP, SEP, IEP – but the least used is the OEP or Open Enrollment Period. The OEP is a completely separate enrollment period running each…
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Category: Snowbirds
January 11, 2022 — Millions of American retirees follow the example of their avian friends – they head south to snowbird when winter temperatures cool. Not all of them fly of course, about three times more drive than fly, and some take the Autotrain. According to a 2018 Topretirements…
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Category: Adventurous retirement
Editor’s note: Bill has been kind enough to write for Topretirements on other topics in the past, including the fascinating tale of his “Cleaning Out a Cluttered Victorian”. This installment shares his adventures and lessons learned from driving his new all electric car all the way from Portland, Maine,…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
January 29, 2023 — If there was ever a good example of the phrase “Use it or lose it”, it would be how flexible you are. You might not do that great on this simple 5 part flexibility test, but the good news is that if you work at it,…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 17, 2023 — The search for a safe place to retire is challenging, as the community of Rio Verde Hills just found out. Up until recently, it received its water from neighboring Scottsdale. But due to concerns that it wouldn’t have enough water for its own residents, Scottsdale cut…
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 20, 2023 — The end of the year presented several gifts to well off folks with substantial IRA, 401(k), or 403(b) balances. The biggest is that, thanks to the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022, the new age for taking Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from those accounts now begins at…
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
January 23, 2023 — Many retirees move when they retire, although most remain in their existing state. A smaller percentage, probably between 10 and 20%, will find a different “best retirement state”. The big question is – what states are they moving to? The answer to that question is –…
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