10 quick tips for updating your kitchen or bathroom
Kitchens and baths are the two areas of a house that can have the most impact on resale value. Why? These rooms are used often and typically cost the most to update. How do you stage your...Read More »
MICHIGAN SELLING SUCCESS STORY:
With Dearborn Heights house sold, ‘I feel so safe’ at Henry Ford Village
When Judy Porch visited Henry Ford Village last September—one of several visits to look at apartment homes with patios—she was planning for the future. She didn’t intend to move anytime soon. Retirement Counselor Dave Leslie suggested she...Read More »
24 November 2009
Nine years ago, Bill McKeehan began making and matting special paintings to give to friends. A prolific artist, he considered them appropriate Christmas...
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24 November 2009
Religion has always played an important role in Kathryn Scudder’s life. So ten years ago when she started investigating retirement communities, she was drawn to one in southeast Michigan affiliated with the Methodist...
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Meow
When Nancy Spilker started investigating Henry Ford Village, the 62-plus community just a mile from her condo, she asked first about her housemates: Could she bring her four cats with...Read More »
‘This is where I’m supposed to be’
Margaret Davis had it all planned. She’d retire from Detroit Public Schools in June 2003 and move to Henry Ford Village a month later. To prepare, in 2002, she joined the Village’s priority list to save her place in line for an apartment...Read More »
Removing all obstacles
When Bob and Ruth Sullivan listed their house in East China, Mich., “We thought we’d have two or three years before it sold,” says Mrs. Sullivan. “There are houses on our block that are still sitting after two years on the market.” But two and a half weeks later, the first and only people to...Read More »
Seven days to a sale
Emmett Bond joined the Henry Ford Village priority list more than 12 years ago to save his place in line for an apartment home there. Recently, he decided it was time to make that move, and from the get-go, things started to...Read More »
Family historian branches out
Lydia Romano has her fingers in lots of Henry Ford Village pies—and artistic pies they are. The former art teacher finds time to paint, but she’s equally at home with words, using them to write family stories, occasional poems, and now even a movie...Read More »
‘I don’t have to do that anymore’
As they searched for a single-story house, retired teachers Bob and Gloria Wurdock received an invitation from Henry Ford Village to an on-campus event. They accepted, had a wonderful time, and drove home to Ferndale with a new goal: If they could afford it, they’d move to an apartment home at the...Read More »
This land is your land, this land is my land
When John Altstetter volunteers, he sticks with it. He’s volunteered for more than 20 years with Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit Christian housing ministry—and dedicated 40-plus years of service to the United States Power Squadrons, which promotes maritime...Read More »
Matt the miracle-maker
If Wellness Coordinator Matt Wallace had a fan club, Henry Ford Village resident Lorraine Flasck would lead...Read More »
