The neighborhood
The Village is the city
Laguna Woods is not a city with a retirement community inside it. It is closer to the other way around. Roughly 12,700 homes sit inside Laguna Woods Village, laid out in cul-de-sac clusters on rolling ground between El Toro Road and Moulton Parkway, just off the I-5 at the El Toro Road exit. It is gated, patrolled around the clock and served by its own bus system, so a moving truck here is a guest and gets treated like one. Residents have an RFID decal that opens the arm on its own. Our truck does not, which is why the arrival goes on your gate access list days ahead rather than at 8am on a Saturday.
Behind the gates there are more than 90 floor plans across three housing mutuals, and they are not one move day. United Mutual is co-op manors, mostly one and two bedrooms, plenty of them second-floor units reached by an outdoor staircase, some looking onto the Aliso Creek greenbelt. Third Mutual runs from compact condos up to single-family plans approaching 2,600 square feet. The Towers is high-rise living, with elevators and a building schedule to respect. A Garden Villa, a Casa Linda and a Towers unit ask for three different crews, three different truck placements and three different amounts of walking. We ask which one you are before we quote, not after.
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