Willow Lakes Estate

The absolute worst trailer park you have ever seen. They charge ridiculously high lot fees, collecting nearly $10 million in rent, but they don't perform any maintenance in the park. There are 4 fire hydrants that haven't worked for 3 years. The laundromat roof has been leaking for over three years and they refuse to spend the money to replace it. The roads, curbs and driveways are horrific. One resident fell in a pot hole and broke her ankle and they refused to compensate her. They started to replace the seewall around the lake 7 years ago and haven't completed that project yet. The street signs are all old, faded and crooked. We have water outages all the time because the infrastructure is so old and then we have to boil our water because it's not drinkable. There are at least 30 abandoned homes in the park that are old, moldy and perfect places for skunks and raccoons to hide so we are inundated with skunk smells at night. And since the living conditions are so poor that no one wants to buy a house in here, they rent houses out but they don't have a large enough maintenance crew to keep the rental houses maintained. Needless to say, you really don't want to buy or rent a house in this community.

This place is simply amazing. A great place to live. They have several types of "mobile" homes to choose which all are modern in style and fairly priced. They have a huge club house and host many activities there. They have a big lake that you can fish on. It is located close to downtown Elgin. If I was retired now this is where I would want to live.