Archive for April 25th, 2008

For some reason, Americans equate summer with vacation. The truth is that you can vacation any time of year when you own a Mexican vacation home. Right now, Select Mexico Properties is offering an excellent opportunity to get in on the coming real estate boom in Puerto Vallarta.
The tourist economy is hot, and getting […]

These days, it seems like it’s impossible to have it all. The biggest unplanned or underplanned expense in retirement is the cost of health care. Part of the reason it’s so hard to pin down is that costs rise so fast. Many Americans also underestimate the health care coverage they’ll have in retirement, or […]

A new survey conducted by Scottrade found that 31 percent of Generation X (those people born between 1965 and 1982) believe that they’ll never be able to fully retire. It’s easy to see why they would think that way. Current estimates indicate that the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2041. For someone […]

Americans are funny when it comes to their retirement savings. A recent survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that only 24 percent of respondents were working for a company that offered a pension or some other type of guaranteed retirement plan, yet 86 percent of respondents think that they’ll have a pension […]

If there is one thing a good real estate agent knows, it’s the market he or she is working. Many real estate agents in Puerto Vallarta have come from southwest US cities. Why? For two reasons: first, the market they’re working in is too soft to support them. Second, they know that Puerto Vallarta second […]