Willow Lake Estates

Reviews

• JP

  Joe Palmisano

  Jun 17, 2025
  1.0
  They Refuse to Fix Street Pole Lighting. Very Dark at night and Dangerous.
• JK

  Judy Kuzniar

  Apr 12, 2025
  3.0
  I visited WLE yesterday and am.jnterested jn purchasing a home, but concerned about flooding and mold esp cause I have bad allergies and asthma. Can anyone tell me if u get flooding, and how often, and what streets are affected? How much? Where? How often? I would greatlynappreciate if u would create a comment with your response. Thank you!!
• OF

  Orlando Falcon

  Nov 20, 2021
  5.0
  Very peaceful community 🙏
• JF

  Jami Firek

  Jul 6, 2019
  1.0
  Avoid at all costs. They lie to you about almost everything.
• CJ

  Carol Juntunen

  Mar 31, 2018
  1.0
  The absolute worst trailer park you have ever seen. Even though they charge ridiculously high lot fees and collect nearly $10 million in rent, they don't perform any maintenance in the park. The laundromat roof has been leaking for over three years and they refuse to spend the $35K to replace it. The roads and curbs are horrific. One resident fell in a pot hole and broke her ankle and they refused to compensate her. The pool showers are gross and anyone from outside the park can use the pool because the key card scanners don't work and need to be replaced. The trees need to be trimmed; a tree branch cracked and fell in one resident's yard and it's been like that for months now. Someone hit a light pole and it's been lying in a resident's yard for 4 months. They started to replace the seewall around the lake 7 years ago and haven't completed that project. The street signs are all old, faded and crooked. We have water outages all the time because the infrastructure is so old. I used to rent a house in the park; my roof was leaking in 3 rooms and I had mold on my ceilings and after 2 years of asking for it to be fixed, I finally went to the city of Elgin and they made them replace the entire roof. There was one renter whose roof was leaking and it caved in. Willow Lake Estates took no action for two weeks and since rain was pouring into the house, the renter had to go to the city of Elgin and her home was condemned so she had to be moved into another home. My neighbor's door was not installed properly; there was at least a one inch gap where the air was coming in. It took them 2 years to replace it but in the meantime, his electric bills were running $1200 a month because he had to have space heaters in the winter to keep warm. Then he had some financial problems and they had the nerve to evict him! There are at least 20 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 the don't have a large enough maintenance crew to keep the rental houses maintained. When people want to move out, Willow Lake Estates refuses to buy the house back from the owner so the owners are forced to either pay WLE to sell the house for them for less than what they paid for it or in some cases they just walk away and WLE takes the house back and sells it. Needless to say, you really don't want to buy or rent a house in here.

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