The Cedars of Dexter

Bill

Cedars of Dexter is exactly what we’re looking for. Most of the retirement places I've looked at seemed like you're living in a dormitory with long halls and doors to each side. But Cedars have 60 cottages, and each one is 1,600 square feet. So each person has their individual cottage and they're grouped together in threes. It's located in a rural area, and we've lived in very congested busy areas and we don't want that anymore. Dexter has a population of only 4,400. They provide food, each resident gets a $200 amount to use and if you go over $200 they bill you for it. Lunch is served cafeteria style and dinner is served dinner style. The attractive thing about the place for me is buying into the place guarantees admission to three phases of care. They have maybe 50 something residents. Tthey only serve a meal on Monday or Tuesday, and the reason for that is that they keep the same staff on the food service area and they want to give them time off, so they only serve brunch on Sundays. They have a separate dining room for the dinner meal, and it takes 2 hours for each meal. And they also have what amounts to a café, there's a library, education room, swimming pool, salt-water pool, and so on. The community is nice but there's only one concern I've got. Given you don't have long hallways from your own individual unit, you have to walk about 150 yards to get to the clubhouse where the food and all the exercises are at. So it's a problem if there's a snowstorm, that's my only concern, otherwise you could get a car and drive up there. One thing I like is that we're given the opportunity to re-design what was there. We get to pick what color we want and what carpets we want, it's like living in a home. They gave us a choice of how we want to get in. One is no money back, and that requires approximately $200,000. Another option was 50% back, and the last option was 90% back.