'Bridging' and Phased Retirement: What Might These Mean for Retiree Attraction Strategies?

 Have you heard the term Phased Retirement yet?  If not, you probably will soon.  Or possibly you have heard a term called ‘bridging.’ Both are approaches ‘retiring’ Baby Boomers are expected to use as retirement strategies. Both are intermediate options between full-time labor force participation and full-time retirement and most important, both present new challe

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Don’t Miss Some Important Opportunities to Enhance Your Community’s Appeal to Retirees

 You are a rural community and you want to create the kinds of services that will attract and retain retirees.  How do you do that with a limited tax base?  There are some options.  Get familiar with the world of grants and grant writing.  Whether it is health care, improvements in cultural and social services, environmental quality or transportation services you can build a qua

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Experts Agree, Now is the Best Time to Buy US Real Estate

 Several months ago financial Guru, Warren Buffet was asked how to know where the bottom of the real estate market is, he said, by looking back after a year and added that he was buying now.

American Express Publishing and the Harrison Group’s Annual Survey of Affluence and Wealth in America, April 2008, revealed that 77 % of the wealthiest people believe real estate is a “real opportuni

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Special Announcements

Georgia Tech is presenting a symposium on September 29 and 30, the “Healthy Aging Symposium:  Trends in Community, Housing and Senior Housing.”  For more information call Rick Duke at 404-278-0090.

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