When buying into an apartment here, they will tell you that you will recoup most of your money, if not more, when you sell, due to rising real estate prices. However, after five years of living here they want to give my mother back $200,000 for a home that cost her $264,000. They state they haven't raised their apartment costs in the last five years. When I do a search on what the current property value estimate is, the average is around $298,000.

Older villas and townhomes are not care for properly. Management seems more concerned with building more "residences" than providing proper maintenance and care for the current "residences". A lot of standard issues come with the caveat of additional cost to the current resident. Find some where else to live!

We have taken an apartment at Willowwood, but we haven't moved in yet. It's in proximity to where my sister works and the programs are good. They have two community rooms that we can reserve for family get-togethers, an area where anybody can play pool, and they have laundry facilities. Plus, it's all close to the apartment we've chosen. They have the meals right on site and from our door, it's just about 50 feet. The laundry room is just down the hall a short ways, and there's a small storage closet across the hall from our apartment where we can store a small Christmas tree or that sort of thing. They have a lot of community things to do with other people in our building, which will be good for us. There's plenty to do, like movie night, popcorn night, Bingo, and then some. The staff is very friendly and overly helpful. We can even take our cat along, and the price is very reasonable.