RetireNet.com

Communities Net Premier community living featuring affordable to upscale living in planned active developments. Worldwide resource for active planned new home communities, rv/resort homes, golf course homes, vacation homes and luxury country club lifestyles. Communities Net is the most comprehensive resource of premier master planned communities throughout the world featuring site built homes, manufactured homes, waterfront living, gated communities, golf course home and more. See also: New Homes, Golf Course Homes, Mortgage Information, Pre-Owned Homes, Resales, Second Homes, New Home Buyers, For Sale By Owner, Country Club Living, Resort Living.

Please Note: You are currently viewing the non-styled version of our website. Either your browser does not support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or support is disabled. Upgrading to a newer browser that features CSS support is almost always easy and free, and will allow you to enjoy enhanced functionality on other sites as well. We recommend Mozilla Firefox for all Windows and Linux systems, and for Macintosh OSX.

The world's largest and most complete directory of community living.

 

Find Your Ideal Retirement Community

Texas: Golf Communities

 

Of Interest

News for Metro San Antonio Texas from MYSA.com

Feds to grab mortgage giants

Sep 6, 2008 4:12 am

The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure of the two companies.

 

New federal indictment sheds light on schemes

Sep 6, 2008 3:52 am

Communications in code, multimillion-dollar bank accounts in the Philippines to funnel kickbacks, and shell companies in the United States used to receive the cash.

 

Embattled SAHA faces sweeping audits

Sep 6, 2008 3:48 am

The San Antonio Housing Authority's board of commissioners has directed its interim CEO to conduct sweeping audits of the beleaguered agency and probe its problem-riddled Mirasol Homes neighborhood.

 

15 file for EAA seats; only 3 races are contested

Sep 6, 2008 3:33 am

The Nov. 4 elections to fill nine seats on the board of the Edwards Aquifer Authority drew 15 candidates by the 5 p.m. Friday filing deadline, but only three of the races will be contested.

 
 

Greg Norman's Southern Cross Developments Selects River Rim Ranch

Greg Norman’s Southern Cross Developments, proprietor of the exclusive “Norman Estates” real estate brand, is pleased to announce that River Rim Ranch in Teton Valley, Idaho will be the location for its newest project, the “Norman Ranch Estates. [Read More]

 

News for Houston Texas from HoustonChronicle.com

Hall of Fame induction a dream come true for Olajuwon

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

Hakeem Olajuwon could not recall a time among all those memories, now vivid in thoughts, that he imagined the day he would be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Then Friday, he joined...

 

UTMB cutting indigent-care program funds by $24 million

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

The budget for providing medical care to the poor is being slashed by $24 million as the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston continues to move away from its traditional role of caring for ...

 

Microsoft ads aim to improve the view of Vista

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

An advertising blitz intended to help Microsoft polish the tarnished brand of its Windows Vista operating system began this week with a head-scratcher of a commercial.

 

Fannie and Freddie to be seized, officials say

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve informed top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that the government was preparing to seize the companies.

 

Google has ambitions enough for another 10 years

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a giant computer network, nearly 20,000 workers and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology.

 

Unemployment stats hit home among job seekers

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

D ebbie Gordon has one of those faces that seemingly was meant to smile. For 13 years, she joked and bantered with customers lucky enough to line up at her cash register. Then came the layoff. Now, he...

 

Disappointing job numbers dash hope for economy

Sep 6, 2008 5:30 am

Businesses slashed jobs and the nation's unemployment rate hit a five-year high in August, the government reported Friday, dashing hopes that the economy might stabilize in the second half of the year...

 
 

Latest news for Austin Texas from Austin Business Journal

United Way Capital Area laying off 10% of staff

Sep 5, 2008 7:56 pm

Acknowledging that nonprofits are not immune to these more challenging economic times, the United Way Capital Area said Friday it has laid off about 10 percent of its more than 70 employees.

 

Austin slips in ranking of best singles cities

Sep 5, 2008 7:54 pm

Could Austin be losing its edge as a mecca for singles?

 

HP edges out IBM for No. 1 spot in data storage revenue

Sep 5, 2008 7:49 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. led the worldwide disk storage systems industry in total revenue, edging out rival IBM, according to a report from analyst firm IDC. (HPQ) (IBM)

 
 

Texas Headlines from Statesman.com

Workers scrub tooth and nail to oust oil from Alamo walls

Sep 6, 2008 3:57 am

Armed with toothbrushes, a brigade of students and workers is defending Texas' most iconic battle site against a modern-day threat: grimy hands.

 

Digest: Police seek smash-and-grab burglars; man charged in bank arson.

Sep 6, 2008 3:48 am

AUSTIN

 

Abbott seeks inquiry into judge-prosecutor relationship

Sep 6, 2008 3:33 am

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott asked a Collin County court Friday to investigate allegations that a judge and prosecutor were involved in a secret intimate relationship during the 1990 trial of Ch...

 

Misery attends each hearing when state must seize children

Sep 5, 2008 6:35 pm

The young mother stands before Judge Darlene Byrne, chewing gum and staring vacantly at the floor. If the hearing about her 5-year-old son interests her, it doesn't show.

 

Courts act fast when the state seizes children

Sep 5, 2008 4:08 pm

Child Protective Services officials must have court approval to remove children from their homes, except in emergencies — and even then a district judge must review the seizure within one bu...

 

Lenders sued, accused of race bias

Sep 5, 2008 2:48 am

Alpha Mortgage USA Inc. and American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. engaged in a racially targeted predatory lending practice called "reverse redlining," according to a lawsuit filed in federa...

 

Texas drops most sect custody cases

Sep 5, 2008 12:35 am

Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians.

 

Former judges, prosecutors seek execution reprieve

Sep 4, 2008 3:54 am

Twenty-two former federal and state judges and prosecutors have asked Gov. Rick Perry to grant death row inmate Charles Dean Hood a 30-day reprieve from his Sept. 10 execution.

 

Free computer recycling law takes effect; volunteers needed to clean up lake

Sep 3, 2008 4:01 am

HAYS COUNTY

 

More than 100 Texas school districts to ask voters to increase taxes

Sep 3, 2008 3:57 am

Austin is not alone in asking voters for a tax rate increase this fall. It joins more than 100 of the state's school districts whose officials say a tax rate increase is the only viable option to cove...

 
 

Local Headlines for Austin Texas from Statesman.com

Deputy admired for his smiles, professionalism

Sep 6, 2008 7:17 am

Even the inmates at the Hays County Jail liked Deputy Fernando Amaya.

 

Digest: Police seek smash-and-grab burglars; man charged in bank arson.

Sep 6, 2008 3:48 am

AUSTIN

 

In grief, husband asks: Who left wife for dead?

Sep 6, 2008 2:45 am

On the night she died, Linda O'Bryan had worked a late shift at a Northwest Austin pharmacy and decided to walk to her apartment about a mile away.

 

Jewish program seeks to expand education on faith

Sep 6, 2008 1:55 am

Amy Webberman kept a kosher home with her husband and teenage children, was active at her synagogue and had lived in Israel.

 

Austin High alumni give others chance they missed

Sep 6, 2008 1:05 am

They pulled one another's hair in elementary school and attended the same dances and churches. As they grew up, most of them went to Austin High School but couldn't afford college. More than 50 years ...

 

Austin family says son not part of Russia-Georgia conflict

Sep 5, 2008 10:40 pm

Two days ago, a cryptic phone call from the U.S. State Department woke Austinite John White at 7:40 a.m. with an odd inquiry. Where, the caller asked, could the government find his older brother, Mich...

 

Misery attends each hearing when state must seize children

Sep 5, 2008 6:35 pm

The young mother stands before Judge Darlene Byrne, chewing gum and staring vacantly at the floor. If the hearing about her 5-year-old son interests her, it doesn't show.

 

Lawyers represent kids - and parents - on the CPS docket

Sep 5, 2008 4:08 pm

Every Travis County child removed from their home by the state is appointed a lawyer, at county expense, from a rotating list of about 55 family law specialists.

 

Courts act fast when the state seizes children

Sep 5, 2008 4:08 pm

Child Protective Services officials must have court approval to remove children from their homes, except in emergencies — and even then a district judge must review the seizure within one bu...

 

In child abuse cases, advocates such as retired teacher are judge's eyes and ears

Sep 5, 2008 4:08 pm

Carolyn Nicewarner isn't trained in the law, but she's one of the most influential peoplein the courtroom on a Child Protective Services case.