Iverson Home 4 Sale/Rasheed Wallace Home 4 Sale

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Today is the latest in a long series of sports star homes lingering on the market. Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson has been looking to sell his home in Villanova, Pennsylvania for a year now. I first heard about it last year when the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties column first reported on it.

Now a year later the same column reveals that Iverson has dropped the price on the 14,000 square foot home to a desperation price of $4 million. That's $1 million less than the former Philadelphia 76er and his wife Tawanna paid for it in 2003. The six-bedroom home is on four acres that include a pool house, stream and waterfall.The chateau-style home on Chateau Lane has four levels including a great room with floor-to-ceiling Palladian windows.


The master suite has his and hers marble bathrooms, a coffee bar, media area and a veranda overlooking the grounds. There are four additional en-suite bedrooms and a separate guest quarters with a bedroom, living room and kitchenette. The entertainment level has a 12-seat movie theater, billiard room, and a lounge with a custom wood carved bar accommodating 200+ wine bottles. It is now listed at $3.999 million.



Continuing my look at sports star homes lingering on the market, this week's WSJ Private Properties column also mentioned the home of Rasheed Wallace, a Detroit Pistons forward who played for eight years with the Portland Trail Blazers. Wallace bought his 1924 brick house in Portland, Oregon for around $3 million back in 2000. The Tudor-style home is on 2.16 acres that include a pool, sports court and guest house.
The five-bedroom home has a red home theater, built-in saltwater fish tank, home office and more. The listing agent told the WSJ that Wallace and his wife Fatima spent more than $1 million on improvements.

The couple briefly listed the house in 2006 for $5.5 million before relisting it last year, for $5.2 million and have now lowered the price to $4.895 million.


























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Rosey should have beat that ass....



Black Enterprise names 20 best places to retire
By DAVID PITT – 1 day ago

The magazine, the most recent national publication to release a list of desirable retirement spots, considered a number of factors when tabulating its annual list of Durham, N.C., has topped the list of Black Enterprise magazine's 20 best places to retire, based on quality of life, affordable health care and other considerations."20 Best Places to Retire" in the October issue.

The other top seven locations — Charlottesville, Va., Ann Arbor, Mich., Nashville, Tenn.; Lexington, Ky.; Roswell, Ga. and Columbia, Mo. — also received the magazine's best score for quality of life, which included housing prices, public schools, crime levels, traffic congestion and commercial air access.The rankings, in a survey created by the magazine's editors, gave places 40 percent of the total score for quality of life, 20 percent for health care, and 15 percent each for taxes and leisure. Arts & Culture and climate were each given 5 percent of the total score.

Many of the 20 locations are in the South, where the climate can be milder, although a few locations are in the Upper Midwest or Northeast, which received high scores for quality of life but lower marks for climate.

Editor-In-Chief Derek Dingle said the goal was to present readers retirement options with high quality of life standards, quality health care and low taxes so they could stretch their retirement nest egg further.In addition, many of the cities are near metropolitan areas with access to historically black colleges and universities "where they can engage in leisure and arts and cultural activities, areas for our audience that had some African American orientation."

Black Enteprise magazine has about 525,000 paid subscribers and 4 million readers, predominantly African Americans. Entrepreneurs and business owners make up than a third of the readership.

Other publications highlight factors such as affordability and desirability of locales in making their own assessments of possible retirement spots.

Money Magazine, in its report, broke up retirement destinations by category, including a group of six towns on the water: Dunedin, Fla.; Sequim, Wash.; St. Joseph, Mich.; Beaufort, S.C.; Durango, Colo.; and Marble Falls, Texas.Money also has a list of places for most affordable homes and those towns in which you can expect to live a long life, including two counties in Iowa and two in Minnesota. Locations in Maryland, Florida, Oregon, Virginia, California and Hawaii also made Money's list.

U.S. News & World Report highlighted locations ranging from Bozeman, Mont., which tops its list, to Concord, N.H., Fayetteville, Ark. and Hillsboro, Ore.

Research by the AARP, a nonprofit organization for people age 50 and older, indicates that a large majority of retirees won't move at all, and if they do, they likely won't go far.

In a 2006 study based on more than 1,200 interviews and Census data, the AARP said nine out of 10 people 60 and older stayed in the same home or within the same county.

Nancy Thompson, a spokeswoman for AARP, said retirees should keep several factors in mind when contemplating a move, including whether a home as a no-step entry and bedroom on the main floor, in case a person should become less mobile, as well as access to public transportation and walkable pathways in the community should the person become unable to drive.