| Have you reached the stage in life when you look at | | | | autumn or calling the plumber when the pipes burst. |
| the dream home which has sheltered you and your | | | | Active adult retirement communities are for adults |
| family "lo, these many years," and see the dream | | | | who want activities like golfing, swimming, fitness or |
| slowly deteriorating into a nightmare? Are you | | | | dance classes, community barbecues, shopping and |
| wondering how you'll be able to afford all those | | | | movie outings, and all the fun things they spent their |
| necessary maintenance chores? Do you dread the | | | | younger years wishing they could do! |
| arrival of spring because it means seven months of | | | | Deciding to move to a retirement community means |
| having to mow the lawn every weekend? | | | | that all the yard and home maintenance will be |
| Are you and your spouse rattling around in a | | | | covered because of the monthly fees you pay. Your |
| four-bedroom home which was once bursting at the | | | | monthly fees will also cover the maintenance of the |
| seams but is now echoing with emptiness since the | | | | common areas of the community, so that the |
| kids have settled into their own lives? If you're | | | | swimming pool, fitness room, picnic areas, and hiking |
| retired, maybe it's time to let go of the idea that | | | | trails are kept in top shape. You'll enjoy relaxing in |
| selling your home would be leaving your best years in | | | | your new surroundings and sharing them with other |
| the past. With the thousands of retirement | | | | retirees who have plenty of time for conversation. |
| communities from which you have to choose, you | | | | Retirement community homes, for the most part, |
| may be astonished to find that many of your best | | | | accommodate the physical limitations of aging |
| years have yet to unfold! | | | | residents. Single-family retirement community homes |
| Finding a good retirement community will put you in | | | | most often have one story, but they're designed |
| the midst of other people who have put the | | | | with architectural features and floor plans to make |
| struggles all their younger years behind them. Like | | | | them appear quite spacious. Retirement communities |
| you, they have succeeded at raising and educating | | | | will either have on-site medical facilities, or will be |
| families, paying off mortgages, completing careers, | | | | very close to outside ones. |
| and providing themselves with enough money to | | | | You won' like him t have to worry about security if |
| retire on. Now both you and they are ready to reap | | | | you choose to live in a retirement community; they |
| the benefits of being the residents of active adult | | | | are universally well-lit and guarded with security staff |
| retirement communities. What are those benefits? | | | | around the clock. So the next time you sit at your |
| Picture yourself waking up each morning and gazing | | | | kitchen table trying to understand what keeps you |
| out of your French doors to a lush green landscape | | | | clinging to a home which is too big and makes too |
| with immaculate flowerbeds full of brilliant blooms and | | | | many demands on your time, ask yourself if there |
| not a stray leaf or twig in sight. Think about how | | | | like him alone's not a much more user-friendly home |
| great it will be not to worry about shoveling the | | | | awaiting you in your perfect retirement community! |
| driveway in the winter or raking the leaves in the | | | | |