Lake Raymond Estates

Welcome to the winter web site of the adjoining residential communities, Lake Raymond Estates and The Meadows at Lake Raymond. Please do not call us a housing development. The word "development" conjures up visions of 12,000 square foot lots surrounded by concrete. We are about being green and then some! We feature large green rolling lots of .74 acre to 3.04 acres. We are about natural terrain and deer in the backyard with hawks resting atop our street signs. We are about preserving the beauty of nature, but taming it just a bit to make for harmonious living.

Our infrastructure is immaculately engineered to drain water without pooling even in a 100 year flood. All amenities are constructed and installed to be state of the art. Our amenities include a small fish lake and a pond and lighted, asphalt walking trails on the shore of the lake and through deep woods. High speed wireless broadband internet is available from three different companies. Our water source is the Bond Madison Water Company, a large regional provider. Southwestern Electric Co-op provides our power. Our streets are maintained by the Central Township Road District. We are located in both the Greenville and Pocahontas Fire Protection Districts. We feature the Lake Raymond Home Owners' Association to administer covenants and restrictions and oversee the maintenance. Dues are $125 annually. There are currently six boards members serving the residents.

We currently have available, a quite fetching new construction, 3 bedroom home with a full basement and an open floor plan on a .89 acre lot with a large backyard. Learn more about this beautiful home at the bottom of the page.

We are located 5 miles southwest of Greenville, IL, a quaint, friendly, and awakening community of 7000. Greenville features very good public schools, beautiful churches, the small but acclaimed Greenville College, excellent rural airport facilities at Greenville Airport and outstanding health care resources at Greenville Regional Hospital, the pride of Bond County!

We are also located 12 miles northwest of Highland, IL, a rapidly growing and progressive community featuring retail trade and shopping opportunities.

Lake Raymond is located 38 minutes from the Gateway City, Heart of the Midwest, St. Louis, Missouri.. Lots are now available from $20,500 to $65,000. We do not bargain.

The Residents of Lake Raymond are respectful enough to allow your privacy, but courteous enough to be neighborly. We are not a community of status seekers, but rather, we are a group of residents certain of our identity and very comfortable with our lives, family and work.

Come see us soon and experience gracious living, country style! Call Jim Zeeb at 618-292-2787 or
618-664-2920 for an appointment to learn more. More homes will be built at Lake Raymond in 2012. If you are transferred out of town in your job, homes at Lake Raymond sell. After all where else can you find scenery, first class amenities, superb infrastructure, excellent location, and developers who work as hard as we do to please?

Poem: "Winter: Tonight: Sunset" by David Budbill,
from While We've Still Got Feet Copper Canyon Press. Reprinted with permission.

Tonight at sunset walking on the snowy road,
my shoes crunching on the frozen gravel, first

through the woods then out into the open fields
past a couple of trailers and some pickup trucks, I stop

and look at the sky. Suddenly: orange, red, pink blue,
green, purple, yellow, gray, all at once and everywhere.

I pause in this moment at the begining of my old age
and I say a prayer of gratitude for getting to this evening

a prayer for getting here, today, now, alive
in this life, in this evening, under this sky.

Blow Out New Year's Sale $20,000 Off!

Begining New Year's Eve this exquisite, new construction, 1600 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, open floor plan, home built by Greg Hogue, with full basement on .89 acres goes on sale for $199,500. Home features 9ft ceilings, tile Jacuzzi and tiled shower in master, hardwood floors, maple cabinets, gas combo heat pump furnace for heating efficienty, Bond/Madison water, with access to lake and hiking trails. Much more! Great neighbors, reasonable taxes, quick access to metro destinations and voice in home owners association. Only $125 annual dues! Sign a deal on New Year's Eve & view the annual Lake Raymond New Year's Gala Fireworks from your living room. Call Jim Zeeb, Zeeb Land & Development 618-664-2920 (home) 618-292-2787 (cell).