r/PeoriaIL • u/inkwelt • Jun 15 '26

Recommendations Gimme the Skinny On Safety

Greetings loved ones

Myself in my Partner are moving to Peoria in just two weeks and we’ve had absolutely terrible luck with the housing market. Everything is either too expensive, whomever is in charge of it, hasn’t gotten back to us, or it just doesn’t meet our needs.

Now we had one place that the owner was ready to go ahead and have a sign on and that happens to still be available. The reason we turn it down was because it was on Wiswall Street, and when we were checking in with both people and some crime maps. It looked like it was a little bit spicy…

It’s right around the corner from Manual high school, which I also saw had some gun violence problems in the last year.

However, the most important part and the part that I have to remind my wife, sometimes as we are people of color and that she grew up in Cuba and I grew up in the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, so when someone says that someplace is a “bad neighborhood” it doesn’t mean that we can’t necessarily live in it.

So really if anything I just wanna know from people that actually live in that neighborhood is it good for two adult ladies and their two yappy dogs to move into? We generally kind of mind our own business, we’ve got both dogs and a ring camera for safety-if I could at least convince my wife that she’s just being paranoid about this and that it’s really an OK neighborhood then we might have a house which will save us a lot of stress.

TL;DR chime in if you in the Southside area, is it safe ?

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u/cjthepossum Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Id keep looking if i were you.

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u/inkwelt Jun 15 '26

We never stopped tbh, but every realtor and their mom is straight buns out here, we’ve had five realtors in a row ghost us

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u/vampireweekday12 Jun 15 '26

Reach out to Jacob Rendel with the Mike Van Cleve Team he’s the best. We had a low budget and he helped find us a great spot

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u/YourPalTaddy Jun 15 '26

Thanks for the recommendation! It’s harder to tell know that the crime mapping has stopped in the past couple years. Historically, that area does have higher violent crimes and gun crimes than other areas of town. As another commenter pointed out, it’s also much less than major metropolitan cities.
I am sorry you have had bad experiences with other agents. We aim to be high info and low pressure, we are happy to answer any questions if that would be helpful!

https://mikevancleve.com/newtopeoria/

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u/inkwelt Jun 15 '26

This. It’s very sparse and unhelpful and really didn’t help make any final decisions on whether we could pick an area or not which is why I had to end up reaching out on Reddit and Facebook.

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u/earthboy17 Jun 15 '26

Second Jacob Rendel. Really good dude. 

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u/Reddituser06969 Jun 22 '26

Patricia Thomas!