Timber Pines Community Association Home - Timber Pines Community Association
My parents retired in 1983 about 75 minutes from here at a real gated retirement community called Timber Pines in Spring Hill. They have a masonry 6' wall around the entire 1500 acres. The only way you can really do this, is not to have any businesses inside the community, otherwise you have too many employees coming and going. As it is, they have a country club and three golf courses. So the golf courses employees and the community employees are the main gate pass users, along with the landscape people. Otherwise you don't enter unless you're accompanied by a real estate agent or a resident has left your name with the gate attendant. They have two manned gates on US Hwy 19. It seems to work very good, my parents lived there about 15 years and they really liked it.
Everything you could really need is on Hwy 19, all the familiar restaurants, Walmart, Home Depot, bowling alley, movie theater, all within ten minutes of going outside the gate. Ten minutes south is Hudson Beach and about 15 minutes south is Gulfview Mall. Four miles north is Weekie Wachee Springs, home of the mermaids and they have a man-made beach and beautiful spring water you can swim. If not for The Villages, I probably would of retired there. My dad had his own golf cart and I played the courses many times.
The homes are much cheaper. Villas are in the very low $100's and the homes are what they would call designer here, no vinyl siding, all masonry. Homes currently sell for the most part, about $140K to $300K.
Here's an average home, this one if for sale for $229K
One of the golf courses and club house