Even the Score Between Enjoying Life at Home and Making Your Home Your Life

By Carrie Anne Deters
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE

What’s the best advice for someone buying their first family home? Would it be about the finding the right lender or mortgage? Would it mean sharing do-it-yourself secrets? Or suggesting they buy in a great school district, around their church, or near other young families?

That advice would serve a young home-owner well. But, many retired people do not often share their ill feelings about maintaining their three-bedroom house once their children are grown . . . or that they’re tired of weeding the garden, raking leaves, and winterizing the house.

Simplify Your Life
Most people work hard to give their families a comfortable life, but those children grow up, and have their own houses to maintain. Now, during retirement years, there are better things to do with time than worry about caring for a big house and yard, and rising energy costs.

Being free to enjoy all the fun things in life and taking time for unrealized dreams is simple at Wind Crest.

Energize Your Lifestyle
Wind Crest frees you from the responsibilities of home ownership because everything will be taken care of for you. Enjoy an amenityrich, maintenance-free, fullservice lifestyle at a great value. A full-time maintenance staff will care for your home inside and out. Enjoy the luxury of a live-in chef—breakfast, lunch, and dinner will all be prepared. You’ll eat the meal of your choice each day as part of your monthly service fee.

This convenient community also ensures you’ll have more hours to enjoy each day—you’ll spend less time repairing leaking faucets, preparing meals, and running errands because of Wind Crest’s ideal design.

Center of Convenience
Go to the market, bank, or doctor’s office without getting in your car. Match wits over bridge, practice your putting stroke, tinker in the Creative Arts studio, or dine with friends in the onsite restaurants.