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Originally Posted by Marilyn RIccio

On 2/15/18 there was a catastrophic event on an easement located between 17086 and 17092 SE 79th Mclawren Terrace The Villages. Neighbors by that location requested assistance in writing to the developer requesting any assistance he could give in assisting to repair the problem. The original home owners sold their dream retirement homes to a company that fixed I buy sick homes who has further let the neighborhood down by not fixing the homes. The hole on the easement destroyed both homes, as well as, the street in front of the homes. The Developer has all the resources to fix the problem with the easement, as well as, the homes. The developer originally had the pipe placed in the easement which failed on 2/15/18 resulting in the catastrophic event. The Neighbors and others requested the developer buy the two damaged homes he originally built and fix the problem that resulted from the easement he placed between the homes that resulted in failure and a catastrophic event destroying two retirees homes, as well as, permanently damaging a neighborhood. Mclawren terrace has been closed and neighbors living there do not feel it is the Friendliest home town because since the event The Developer has refused to send his brilliant workmen to repair the problem. How would you feel if your retirement neighborhood and investment was destroyed and the person that built it that had all the resources in the world to fix it has simply said NO!

Originally Posted by Marilyn RIccio

You are so correct the easement is owned by the homeowner. Sadly the Stormwater pipe in that easement collapsed causing catastrophic destruction to both Retirement homes, the road, and the property values in the neighborhood. No one has repaired the homes since 2/15/18. The neighbors foolishly turned in total desperation to the current developer in hopes he had the mercy of The Villagers Founder. Hope such an event does not happen to others As it did to two homeowners on Mclawren terrace both in their eighties. Both left their dream retirement homes, as well as, the friendliest home town.

I am not very well versed on the sinkhole situation in Calumet Grove but what I do know and what you have described is an out-and-out tragedy.

Because of what happened to these two homes, the residents there who want to sell their home cannot do so. The owners of both homes being in their 80s only make this tragedy even worse.

Adding insult to injury, that it's been well over a year since the sinkhole happened, the fact that the Morse family, et al, have seemingly turned their back on the entire situation is reprehensible.
Unless there is a piece of this puzzle I don't understand or am not privy to, it sounds as though the lack of attention to that Village is nothing short of disgraceful.

Is there a reason this situation still exists???
Someone must know the real story as to why the developer has not stepped up to the plate.