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The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm
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The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

by Kenneth W. Gronbach
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
4h 17m
English
AMACOM
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The Housing Bubble Bursts

Let’s fast-forward to the housing market here in the United States because there are some very similar dynamics taking place. In the last ten or fifteen years many of the almost eighty million Baby Boomers (born between 1945 and 1964) built their dream homes. Many built starter castles of 5,000-plus square feet just in time for their kids to leave home, go off to college, and then get married. I am not even going to debate the merits of this concept of shelter; I’ll simply say that this was a bad move demographically.

The Boomers know that they can’t stay in these houses indefinitely because the upkeep is too expensive to be practical and they simply no longer need the space. In addition, most starter castles are multilevel ...

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ISBN: 9780814401811