Sunday, July 8, 2007

Parker Colorado Real Estate - New Frontiers


The natural amenities that Colorado possesses allow home builders and designers to construct masterful home sites for buyers. The Rocky Mountains allow residents to elevate themselves from others and enjoy the scenery without the hassle of a neighborhood. Open lands give residents the choice of building a ranch and raising live stock, or operating a game ranch. The choices of home styles and communities are endless and Colorado offers residents their choice of living situation.

Mountain side homes have always been popular in Colorado. These homes are built within the mountainous terrain. Resorts like Aspen and Steamboat Springs have emerged as a result of residents flooding an area and building on mountains. This living style gives residents the chance to live above the other residents. These houses can be located within communities like Aspen, or in secluded areas around Colorado. Breathtaking views are usually an amenity that accompanies mountain side homes.

Colorado is mostly known for two sports, skiing and hunting. Ranch sites give residents the choice of raising live stock or operating a game ranch. In either case the sites incorporate large amounts of acreage for private use. Many residents in Colorado own livestock and specifically horses. Equestrian is very popular in Colorado and many ranches and parks within the area are built to accompany the sport. Colorado is known for big game hunting. With the variety of natural wildlife in the area hunters often migrate to Colorado during the winter to hunt deer and elk.

Condominiums and town homes have become popular living styles within the last ten years. Metropolitan areas around the country have started developing condos and town homes to encourage people to move back to the city. Denver contains many high rise condos within its metropolitan area. Condos offer residents and small families the chance to live within a city without dealing with apartment leases. Many luxury condos are being built around the Denver area. Town homes give residents the chance to live within the city and within a community. Town homes are usually small and are connected or are very close to other homes within the community. This style of home is ideal for small families who want to be closely involved within a community.

Master planned communities and neighborhoods are also very popular in Colorado. The difference between the two is that master planned communities usually have more amenities then neighborhoods. Master planned communities include golf courses, lakes, commercial buildings, and designed retail offices. These communities are often gated to offer their residents the privacy that they want. Master planned communities almost always contain custom homes. Neighborhoods are communities that offer residents the security of a community without the glamour of a master planned community. Neighborhoods are mostly made up of homes and often have strip mall located around them. This style of living is popular all over the country.
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Condo Vacations


Condo Vacations: Where do you spend your vacations? By that I mean where do you stay? For a long while we just settled for a comfortable hotel. Then one time flying back to Hawaii from Hong Kong we had planned a stop in Honolulu, but had not made any reservations. We travel dangerous sometimes :-). When we got to the auto rental agency we asked the lady if she could recommend a good place to stay that was reasonable? She knew of a couple and directed us to them. As it turned out they were not hotels at all but beautiful high rise condos. We had all of the comforts of home with maid service and a great view of the city to boot.

Fast-forward in time and it came time for a Florida vacation and we immediately thought of our good experience in Honolulu, so we started looking for a condo to stay in rather than a hotel. Since we were planning on staying on the North coast of Florida we considered several places but settled on Panama City Beach. At the time condos were very reasonable to rent and to buy.
It turns out we just bought one in Horizon South. This was an older campus with several stages of construction over several years so the properties varied some. The closer we got to the beach the newer the condos were. We ended up settling for one about in the middle of campus. When I say campus that is what it is, with a lot of open space and the highest building was only 4 stories.
We have since sold our condo to new owners that have use of the condo for more months out of the year and we just rent it for the winter months plus a couple weeks in the summer. So if you have not considered a condo vacation then maybe you should. I recommend you visit Horizon South and see if you agree. The condo vacations are definitely the way to go. For us, condo vacations are the best. The author lives in Panama City Beach a few months each year and is semi-retired in that he likes to build simple web-sites in his spare time.

Jim Bright infor@condos.ofpanamacitybeach.com

The author is semi-retired and lives in Florida several months out of the year. He builds simple web sites in his spare time.

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