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How Much Has Your Home Value Changed Since 2004

Category: Retirement Real Estate

May 11, 2016 — Is your real estate experience something you are pleased with, or a subject best left untouched? A new interactive tool published in the Washington Post will confirm that for you in just a few seconds. Enter your zip code or town, and voila!, it will…

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Published on May 10, 2016
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10 Friendly Places to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

May 9, 2016 — The nation’s 77 million baby boomers face a life-changing decision – finding a place to live once they retire. Making a good choice involves many considerations, but the most critical is to select a place that helps them fit in and feel welcome quickly. After all,…

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Published on May 9, 2016
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Moving Challenges for Snowbirders: Tonka and Yoda Do the Annual Migration

Category: Travel

Travels with Lucy, John, Yoda, and Tonka May 2, 2016 — The heart of this article was originally posted on JungleRedWriters.com by Lucy Burdette, who you might recognize as the better-half of Topretirements. We have appended an additional section at the end on the traveling issues that snowbirders…

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Published on May 2, 2016
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Renting vs. Buying – Which Is Better in Retirement?

Category: Retirement Real Estate

April 29, 2016 — One of the biggest considerations most Americans face is determining if, and when, it makes sense to buy a home. In retirement, however, the question becomes a different one: “Should I remain a homeowner?” For all Americans, one recent study by Trulia.com found it is more…

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Published on April 29, 2016
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7 Key Steps If You Lose Your Smart Phone

Category: Home and Garden

April 19, 2017 — Just about everybody has an iPhone, smart phone, or at least a vintage flip phone. If you own one of the former two devices, you have made a significant investment, one that would hurt if you lost it. Unfortunately you could experience that pain all too…

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Published on April 19, 2016
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Sandy and Annie’s Quest for the Perfect Place to Retire

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

April 11, 2016 — We love hearing stories from real people about their adventures in finding the perfect place to retire. So we were very fortunate recently to get an in depth interview from 2 old friends, Sandy and Ann, who shared their retirement search adventures. We hope you will…

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Published on April 11, 2016
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Best and Worst Places to Retire Lists: Worth the Time It Takes to Read Them?

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

April 6, 2016 — Are any of the Best States to Retire” lists you see so frequently worth the few minutes it takes you to read them? That is a pretty good question, since A: there are so many to read, and B: they seem to contradict themselves more than…

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Published on April 5, 2016
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KILLER TAKEOUT: #7 in the Key West food critic series hits bookstores today!

Category: Adventurous retirement

Editor’s Note: This announcement of her 7th Key West food critic mystery is from Lucy Burdette, aka Mrs. Topretirements.com April 5, 2016 — Killer Takeout by Lucy Burdette takes place during Fantasy Fest, a zany ten-day festival beginning with the unofficial zombie bike ride, and ending with an enormous,…

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Published on April 5, 2016
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Topretirements Publisher Featured in “Where to Locate” Podcast

Category: Uncategorized

April 2, 2016 — We were recently quite flattered to be asked to be featured in a podcast for RetirementJourneys.com. Ted Carr, its President, asked some very helpful questions. It was a good challenge to re-think many of our positions on and reasons for choosing a place to…

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Published on April 1, 2016
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Dueling Retirement States Series Update: VA, MD, NJ, DE

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

March 29, 2016 — Due to popular requests we periodically update our extensive series of “Dueling Retirement States”. The latest to be updated is the comparison of retirement in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. The previous version of this comparison was from 2010. Since then most trends and…

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Published on March 29, 2016
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