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Try It NOWCategory: Home Owners Associations
Sept. 4, 2025 — Unfortunately, condo properties can go bankrupt. It happened back in the housing crisis of 2008-9 because many homeowners, who had lost their jobs or most of their income, defaulted on their HOA dues. The same danger exists for many condo properties in 2025, but for different…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
Sept. 7, 2025 — The NY Times asked trainers for their ideas on the best training tests. They came back with four tried-and-tested self-assessments for strength, balance and cardiovascular fitness. One of them is a good screener to see if you are ready for pickleball. Others measure upper body strength,…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
September 10, 2025 — Gov. DeSantis seems to be a big fan of MAHA – Make America Healthy Again – or at least its anti-vax conspiracies. Florida recently eliminated vaccine mandates for school children, which will almost certainly bring polio, measles, and other life-threatening, but preventable, deaths to the State’s…
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Category: Life Care or CCRC
This article was originally published in 2021. Updated Sept. 2025 with updates from several people we know, including the couple profiled in the original article. For most people, the answer to the question when is the right time to move to a Life Care community is, “when I…
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Category: Adventurous retirement
September 17, 2025 — The dream retired accountant Kent Broussard had since 1968 was to play in a big time college marching band. Now at age 66, the Sousaphone player has reached that goal, and is loving every second. Kent, a freshman at Louisiana State University, is thrilled to be…
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Category: Social Security
September 18, 2025 – Anyone who has been following Topretirements for a while knows that we are a big proponent of delaying taking Social Security benefits as long as possible. But maybe is time to change that position. Up to now the advantages of waiting to claim Social Security retirement…
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
Sept.30, 2025 – It seems counterintuitive – so many people really look forward to their retirement. Yet when they finally get there, many not only keep working, but they seem happier than their non-working peers. That is the suggestion from a recent study published in the Journal…
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