We lived in Forest Park for over 20 years and it went from a nice, quiet place to live to an expensive, noisy, bad place. Dirt bikes and quads, which in the lease are forbidden, were commonplace, and could be heard through all hours of the day and evening. We had our car broken into and heard from other neighbors that they had also had the same trouble. If you plan on moving in, I hope you don't have a job during the winter. The roads, in the beginning were always plowed, but the past few years, I had been out and hadn't seen or heard a plow by 1pm in the afternoon during the weekdays. And they won't use salt, they use a mixture of sand and cinders, which just turns the snow to sludge. Also, hopefully you don't have many family members over. You will be written up if you have any cars parked in front of your home that aren't in a driveway. They are also not very picky whom they rent to anymore. There have been quite a few drug dealers and one (that was actually busted) meth lab. We also had a child molester that lived down the street, that was only evicted AFTER complaints, but he lived there for months within 20 feet of a bus stop. The majority of the ""help"" they hire is useless. Often they had lost rent checks and blamed us and the maintenance men are often loud, obscene and rude. They often say they will be fixing the park up, but never do you see much in the way of improvements. I would say you are better off finding somewhere else to rent or buy.
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