Located in the scenic, uncongested Northeast corner of the beautiful city of Lake Forest, this has proven to be the ideal family home setting for many hundreds of happy families. Offering many special amenities and a unique combination of desirable neighborhood characteristics, the Wind Rows development continues to be among the top three selling communities of detached homes in Lake Forest every year, year after year.

Reasons for this sustained demand include:

THE CROSS-SECTION OF 4 DISTINCT FLOORPLANS - Includes 2 single-level and 2 larger 2-story models, providing economical home prices while surrounded by numerous neighborhoods featuring homes that are the most prestigious and expensive to be found in all of Lake Forest. Click here to see floorplans

LOW TAX RATE - A total property tax rate in the range of 1.05% to 1.08%, one of the lowest tax rates for home ownership in the entire State of California. No Mello-Roos or other special assessments are applicable within the community,

LITTLE OR NO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FEE - With a small minority of homes (about 25%) having a low-cost monthly association fee, the entire community nonetheless enjoys common area maintenance by either the City or HOA, depending on specific ownership location.

LACK OF RESTRICTIONS - On home and lot decor, paint, trim and landscaping choices. Homeowners choose for themselves without approval requirements from architectural committees or association guidelines (even when the home does have association membership).

WONDERFUL FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD - With children of all ages, well-distributed throughout the community. Occupational, age and cultural diversity create a welcome environment for a broad range of residents; a healthy and happy reflection of the true Orange County lifestyle.

LOW RENTAL RATIO - Often identified as superior care-takers of residential properties, owner-occupied residents of Wind Rows homes far outnumber renters. In fact, over the years, the ratio of owners to renters has consistently stayed much higher than for communities whose homes sell in a similar price range, all throughout the surrounding Saddleback Valley area.

VINTAGE PARK - Underlying one of the boundary foothills and centered in an inside-tract location, this large play & picnic area offers a multi-level recreation, sports and social center for community residents. Along with the non-association-owned medians and numerous greenbelt areas throughout the tract, the maintenance costs and responsibility are borne by the City of Lake Forest, which performs an excellent job of ongoing care and upkeep.

ENTRY STREETS - Three evenly-spaced streets provide vehicular access from El Toro Road. The center street (Normandale Rd.) is stoplight-controlled, while each of the others feature convenient and safe turning pockets and lanes, alleviating any traffic-induced entry and exit pressure.

CUL-DE-SACS - These figure prominently in the tracts street layout, where most streets either end in or are comprised of cul-de-sacs. This greatly reduces the potential of traffic danger associated with thru streets, while contributing also to a neighborhood atmosphere.

TRACT LOCATION - With close proximity to large open-space areas, as well as to "civilization", a nice balance between nature and convenience is achieved. Nearby are shopping, schools, entertainment, movie theaters and restaurants, as well as large and dynamic employment centers, including both the Irvine Spectrum and the rapidly-growing Pacific Commerce Centre. Regular school bus stops are also distributed within the community, and toll-road access is situated conveniently nearby.

LIVING AND OWNING - Built by the William Lyon Company from 1978 to 1981, this community of 425 single-family homes offered initial selling prices ranging from the $75K to $100K range, very economical and affordable at the time. However, even with current values ranging from the high-$400K to the high $600K range as we move into the new millennium, the typical Wind Rows home offers a highly desirable combination of benefits for the affordable home shopper.

Investment in such a home has consistently proven to be an effective way to both house a family and to enjoy an upward curve of price appreciation. This enables many growing families to "trade up" as needed, usually after a few years of building up solid equity.

BUYING AND SELLING - The marketplace for Wind Rows homes has consistently been a very good one, offering sellers an active and dynamic pool of potential buyers when the time is right for them to sell. And for buyers, when the comparison shopping is said and done, their conclusions have continued to result in steady and consistent demand for these homes, year after year.

When its time to sell, of course, there is no substitute for the professional marketing exposure needed to present such sale offerings to the home-buying public. The unique set of marketing and selling tools that I have developed and used successfully since 1989 has proven to be the preferred combination for Wind Rows homebuyers and sellers. Consistently and increasingly since 1994, no other real estate agent has listed and sold, or represented as many buyers of Wind Rows homes as Dick Hamer.