sacredhands on Nov 22nd, 2007Tumbleweed Tiny Houses Make Affordable Housing A Backyard Retirement Option
Old age brings a rash of problems that have nothing to do with your life but somehow become the focal point of your daily existence. Who knew pill popping at $5 a pill times four or five would produce such a strain on your meager purse. When your children come to visit why is it [...]
sacredhands on Nov 13th, 2007New York Real Estate Prices Make Continuing Care Communities Ghost of Senior Past
With New York real estate prices so insane, the thought of a developer investing in a continuing care community makes about as much sense as growing grapes in the Arctic. You can try, but it’s the wrong environment. Sure you could build a green house up there, but it would cost you a small fortune [...]
sacredhands on Nov 6th, 2007Plan On Retiring In New York? Can You Sleep In A Cardboard Box?
Fixed income retirement is about as pleasurable as having your wisdom teeth pulled by a student at a university teaching clinic. The cost of everything keeps rising but the cash flow off Social Security remains pretty much the same. Without any saved income, the thought of living in a city like New York seems absurd. [...]
sacredhands on Oct 29th, 2007Naturally Occurring Retirement Community In Staten Island Gets Federal Money
A collector is born the day she discovers that owning two or three or four of the same-but-different thing allows them to appreciate how the human mind likes to endlessly reinvent common shapes and forms in order to put food on the table. A collector is really a historian in disguise. What’s crucial for this [...]
sacredhands on Aug 16th, 2007Mexican Nursing Homes Beckon Weary Seniors
Globalization has finally hit the nursing home racket. Forget the mafia. Nursing home operators are the new muscle men in town. Need to die gracefully…that will cost you $6,000 to $8,000 per month in America. That’s a lot of dough for sitting around in a room the size of a dorm with a bunk mate. [...]