Stacy O’Connell

My name is Stacy O'Connell, and since December 2020 I have lived with my two sons and daughter at Falcon Farms Mobile Home Park in Port Byron, Illinois (owned by Yes Communities). We’re a disabled family. All three kids and I have disabilities.

From the end of my first month here, I had a metal septic lid shooting raw sewage from the ground up like a geyser that not only turned my yard into a sewage pond but also went under my mobile home. The park told me it was just water from the storm drains, and nothing was done. I suspected otherwise due to the sewage smell in my home.

I’ve contacted the management, the health department, the EPA, and multiple lawyers, but here we still are. During one of the big rainstorms recently, it all flooded again, and the foundation sank overnight. In the morning I was trapped in my bedroom. The door wouldn’t open. My son had to bring tools to my bedroom window, and I took the hinges off.

When I talked to management recently, they asked me if I wanted to give them my home. What? I want them to fix what is broken and make the situation right! Why should we be paying lot rent for a site that actually damages our home?