This place is a nightmare.
My first season at Pine Haven was decent, but we learned fast who the “cool kids” were. When I say cool kids, I mean the grown adults that break every rule but never get in trouble. They're the loud, drunk, racist, and obnoxious popular ones. They all hang at the same parties, and they all act the same fake way to everyone but are rude, and belligerent most of the time.
Ginger Beard was intoxicated and surrounded my golf cart with my wife in it, with 5 of his equally as drunk friends. If I got out I would have gotten jumped by 6 cowards. I did my best to defuse the situation and get out of there. The police were called, and a report was given to Pine Haven. He got a slap on the wrist and we got a warning. Why? Because ginger beard is a “cool kid”.
Another mouth. Humpty Dumpty, the ex power tripping security guard that would cover for the cool kids and make up stories to incriminate people she didn’t like. To this day, she has her ears in everyone’s business. If you value your peace in Pine Haven, don’t talk to humpty because she just wants details to possibly hold them against you. She's been caught numerous times lying about things and deliberately causing fights, and she stole golf cart passes from the office and handed them out to her friends.
Speaking of peace. If you are a person of color, you won’t get that in Pine Haven. There's an old leather handbag looking lady that is openly racist, that has had the cops called on her SEVERAL times for stalking and harassing families of color, and one of those families happened to be our good friends. She would follow their kids around and make comments about how she doesn’t trust them, and even made a vile complaint about a child on the spectrum. The leather handbag lady also has been caught peeing in the pool on several occasions and starting fights with other campers over a table in the pool area. Even after the police reports and the stack of complaints, she is still at Pine Haven!
If you’re a woman in Pine Haven, you better watch out because Mr. BBQ will try to take advantage of you. He also uses a fake name. I’m assuming he uses an alias, because if you looked up his first name on public record you would see some disturbing info regarding his arrest record. Somehow, this info has been disregarded, and Mr. BBQ is still allowed in Pine Haven, even though they supposedly do background checks on all the campers. I guess because this dude cooks at events, everyone is just supposed to look over the fact he’s a scumbag that takes advantage of women and makes inappropriate advances on married women and young girls.
After the incident with Ginger Beard last season, my wife and I went to Pine Haven and mostly kept to ourselves. We patiently waited for the opportunity to sell, which was difficult to do when the old manager didn’t like being told she was terrible at her job so she manipulatively retaliated by denying our sale request causing us to go over her head to get the approval from corporate. If you butt heads with any of the “cool kids” you will have a target on your back and they will make it miserable for you every step of the way. Several other people that have had it with the drama, the cliquey behavior, and the way Equity Lifestyle Properties runs Pine Haven campground, regarding recently increasing the rates by 8% or more, and doing little to nothing to improve the campground.
The reason everyone is selling is because people are tired of literally everything and want out. The issues I've listed above are just the tip of the iceberg with our family personally. The roads. The trash area, the office never being open, the front gate not being staffed properly, the sheer lack of professionalism, and the list goes on.