We have been residents on a rent to own program at lakeview for a year now. We just resigned a lease. The maintenence people are very friendly. Security drives around periodically at night. Occasionally the police will come patrol too just to make sure everyone is safe. It's pretty quiet here despite all the families with children. Lakeview ALWAYS makes sure we are plowed out every time it snows. I've lived other places where they've let us stay snowed in for days. Eric, one of the property managers, is very kind and he likes to give everyone a chance. Lakeview is working very hard on making sure all the old homes that are not kept up get moved out, but they give any remaining residents ample time to get it fixed. The place is starting to look nicer by the day. I love that we don't feel completely cramped in here. Something about the layout of the homes doesn't make it feel different than a regular subdivision by much. I appreciate also that sun communities has very reasonable rent. We couldn't rent an apartment for what we have here. The only con about living here is that maintenence does not automatically replace air filters on the rentals, and the ones they do I can't believe there's a point to putting them in. They are see through with a few green fiber strands. I can stick my hand through them. Filters are very costly, but it is my feeling that when renting, this should be the parks responsibility to maintain unless we were to buy it. UPDATE 6/24/16: I have changed my review from 5 stars to 4 stars. Cons: We have signed a second lease and the property manager has changed since signing the original lease. Most things have stayed pretty much the same, but we've experienced several issues with billing and maintenance. We had to put in multiple requests for a toilet to be fixed which wound up costing us $70 more in water bills than any other month in a year and a half. Despite the fact that the water bills being high directly correlate with the original request for maintenance and the day it was finally fixed, they will do nothing to adjust our rent. We had to pay for that error. There have also been a number of billing mistakes. We now go over the rent in person with Nancy each month. I also still dislike the air filters they use. They are literally a few threads hanging on a piece of cardboard. I can fish objects through between them. What's the point in having a filter at all? I realize it cuts costs, but in the end Lakeview will have to pay hundreds of dollars to clean the air ducts if we ever move out. We've bought our own hypoallergenic filters a few times, but that's $40 a month we should not have to spend when we are renting. I've thought about buying reusable filters but they take our filters out when they are in for maintenance and I don't want them to go missing. I did however buy a $100 air purifier with reusable filters, but that only does 1 room. They really need to update their archaic payment system. Nancy is a sweet lady, but I get nervous when my rent is being calculated on a scrap piece of paper and not in the computer. We also get handwritten rent receipts on a generic receipt book that I could buy at Meijer. It doesn't even have the Lakeview logo on it, so it makes it difficult if I had to use it as a legal document. Pros: Some more positive notes, maintenance so far has been very trustworthy. We've never noticed anything moved or taken (other than air filters). We've met most of the maintenance people and they are very nice. Many if not all of them live on site, so they are also neighbors, which is nice because they take pride in the community. Lakeview has been pretty good at collaborating with companies to fix issues. Some residents were complaining about unusually high heating and cooling costs. Lakeview allowed Direct Energy to come around to the residents and give us a Nest free of charge. It's a smart thermostat that saves energy. We've been saving $20-30 a month on average for several months. It's a $200 unit if we were to buy one at home depot. There was also a water main break a couple months ago and Lakeview immediately printed up notices to all residents warning them not to drink any of the water before boiling it for a few days for our safety. We were all without water for a few hours, but they worked with the appropriate people to get it fixed really fast. read more