Re: Letter titled ‘Have some humanity for our senior people!’ published in The Weekend Sun, January 26, 2024, edition. The recent letter concerning retirement homes from Ron Chamberlain. My wife and I are in our late eighties and returned to NZ in 2010 after living some years in Australia, living for some time in a retirement village in Queensland.

We purchased our two-bed detached property for a fair price, paid a ground rent and when we sold to come back to NZ we used an outside real estate agent, paid his commission and kept the profit ourselves; the owners of the village simply wanted to approve the buyer.

Coming back home it was our intention to end our days in a village but soon decided to stay in our home as long as we could. There was supposed to be a commission set up to investigate complaints re retirement villages but it’s quiet!

David Lawrence, Otūmoetai.