You have to hand it to the developers of America's premier golf communities. No matter what happens to the U.S. real estate market at large, there's no slowing these guys down. For them, the sky is always within reach...

... #9. Spanish Peaks Big Sky, Montana

This is perhaps the only golf community whose residents are excused for suddenly acquiring twangy accents and buckskin breeches. Fairway-side residences are available (the course, by Tom Weiskopf, opened in 2007), along with your choice of ski-in, ski-out neighborhoods, surrounded by views that qualify as religious experiences. Stone-and-timber buildings clustered together to form the Settlement contain expected facilities like dining, a golf shop, and locker rooms, but there's also a general…

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Published in the Bozeman Chronicle, January, 2008. In his follow-up book to the bestselling The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach has taken his winning strategies to the next level with The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner, a guide to assist with building wealth through real estate. According to Bach, the plan is quite simple, it works in any market, and it has been thoroughly time tested to work. For years, Americans used their investment dollars in the stock market to grow at a steady pace. When drastic changes occurred, much of that money moved to investment in the real estate market. The purchase of primary residences, home improvement projects, and the investment in second homes all witnessed steady growth as people's wealth became heavily tied to…

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Rarely has so much bounty gone so unplundered as at Big Sky — the biggest place you’ve never skied. There’s rarely more than a few seconds’ lift line at this sprawling Montana resort, except when waiting for the marquee 15-person tram ( map) that takes skiers to the top of 11,166-foot Lone Peak. A big reason for Big Sky’s quiet is the perceived remoteness of the resort: it sits about one hour south of the Bozeman airport.

It’s a destination ski resort if there ever was one, which means midweek skiers share the place with almost no one. The other reason is its sheer size: Those who do make the journey soon disperse over three mountains and nearly 4,000 skiable acres, with a correspondingly huge menu of terrain. From the resort’s tip-top, a snowboarder…

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