Goodwill Retirement Community

Lynne Crehan

I gave two stars because we did have two wonderful years here. We moved into the retirement village along with my father, sister and brother-in-law.  We loved living here and being so close to each other, yet living in separate cottages.  We planned on seeing out our days at Goodwill. After those two years, my wonderful neighbor had to move to assisted living. My husband ended up not getting along with the husband of the couple that moved in after him, and the man proceeded to do creepy things to intimidate us, stacking junk on his back patio that faced our bedroom, hung pictures of people and items staring back at us from their bedroom window into ours, leaving outside lights on all night shining directly into the bedroom, and making structural changes that were ugly, without getting required approval first. Though they did manage the problem with the inappropriate structural changes, Administration did nothing to get him to stop his uncivilized behavior.  The things he was doing "were not obscene or illegal", so they were deemed to be acceptable in their eyes.  We've since moved out, away from my family, taking the financial hit, because we could no longer trust them to care for us in the manner we expected to be when we moved in. Since they wouldn't help us with the difficult situation we were faced with, we no longer felt confident in our future there.  We also didn't want to live in a community that would allow someone as uncivilized as he to live there. Unless administration comes up with a plan to manage neighbors that don't get along, or uses better discretion when determining whether the Village is the right place for a prospective resident, I would not move into the village.  You may end up being sorry you did so just as we did.