[Hawkwind]

Okay, I was playing around this morning while on the last pot of coffee and was on the Sumter county web site looking at the properties around Pennecamp.

I then want to Google Glenn Hollow Farms as I have passed that gate on 466 hundreds of times and wanted to know who and what. I came up with this interesting site. http://www.corporationwiki.com/graph...px?id=18611131 Now if you can see all the different companies and the players in the company family. I was trying to relate the names on this chart to the names on the county record for Pennecamp but did not come up with anything.

Next I went to the Sumter web page again and started playing with the GIS map. http://www.sumterpa.com/GIS/Search_F.asp I found the farm and started zooming around at the different properties around Glenn Hollow Farms. By clicking on the identify tab it will tell you the property owner of record. Some interesting names popped up in that area that are on the Google org chart. Interesting findings when you look at who is getting the homestead exemption.

[bkcunningham1]

Hawkwind, that corporation wiki site is amazing.

[BogeyBoy]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

Hawkwind, that corporation wiki site is amazing.

What a tangled web............

[Pturner]

Hawkwind, very cool site!

[graciegirl]

There is another area in The Villages that is interesting to me. It is called Hickory Head Hammock and has huge iron gates that do not open with my pass card.

Anyone know anything about that area?? Very close to Spanish Springs and Hacienda Hills Village.

[villages07]

Gracie.... I had heard that Hickory Head Hammock originally had several of the Morse family living there. Harold Schwartz had a home in there. To my knowledge, it is part of the Villages, with amenity privileges. It may be setup as a separate homeowner's association (like the Spanish Springs villas) for common maintenance purposes and hence the private gate. From time to time a resale in there pops up on the VLS website.

[Carla B]

Yes, we looked at a house for sale there (for friends, we could never afford it) and there are about 41 properties in there, I think. The MLS agent told us that the Morses used to live in that neighborhood. As I recall a few of the houses looked to be oversized manufactured-look houses and the rest were conventional. It is a beautiful area.

[PR1234]

Originally Posted by villages07

Gracie.... I had heard that Hickory Head Hammock originally had several of the Morse family living there. Harold Schwartz had a home in there. To my knowledge, it is part of the Villages, with amenity privileges. It may be setup as a separate homeowner's association (like the Spanish Springs villas) for common maintenance purposes and hence the private gate. From time to time a resale in there pops up on the VLS website.

Speaking of the Spanish Springs Villas....why do they have a separate homeowner's assoc.?

[BogeyBoy]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

There is another area in The Villages that is interesting to me. It is called Hickory Head Hammock and has huge iron gates that do not open with my pass card.

Anyone know anything about that area?? Very close to Spanish Springs and Hacienda Hills Village.

Wrap a $500,000 bill around that pass card, the gate will open right up.

[Pturner]

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Flori...n-3717714.aspx

[coffeebean]

We saw the big house on Baypoint Way in Pennecamp. The view is gorgeous and I love the outdoor space. It's a beautiful home.

[JoC]

My husband and I went looking for the big house the other day and couldn't find it. We tried again today and drove all around Pennecamp but couldn't find it. How do you get to it? Thanks.

[graciegirl]

Find the model row in Pennecamp and follow the street they are on staying close the the lake. If you keep turning toward the lake you will dead end at the point on which the big house is located.

[graciegirl]

Today JoJo, me, daughter Helene and neighbor Ruthie prowled through the big house. The location is wonderful, it is placed out further than the other two homes that will be on the point and so it has an uninterrupted view of water on three sides from the birdcage,master bedroom and kitchen/greatroom. The home itself is probably closer to 5000 square feet rather than 7K. It has a HUGE masters suite and a large divided guest room with arches separating it, (probably for a sitting area in that bedroom), plus two other bedrooms. It has a butlers pantry leading from the front hall to the oversized kitchen and a LARGE built in bar in the great room. It has two rows of six (?) French doors, one from the master bedroom and one from another room that I can't figure out it's function. It has a pool, a spa, an outdoor kitchen and loads of extra space under it's birdcage. It has granite and upscale light fixtures and high ceilings throughout of course and I THINK it is a new form of an enlarged Grandview. The Grandview had previously been the largest model in the Premier series.

Just last week a new Premier model was announced called the Atlanta. I thought that the three homes on the point might be new models, or they could be spec houses, or the big one could be built for a Morse relative. It is a beautiful lot and the home doesn't disappoint. We were really lucky that we chose today to try to see the interior. The carpet is in, in fact it is basically finished and looks like it will be completely finished in just a few days. The plantings are delivered and waiting to be put in and the house needs a final cleaning. There is a lot of space behind the birdcage before you get to the fenced retaining wall. It will be a spacious backyard.

I am thinking again about buying a lottery ticket.

[bkcunningham1]

Gracie, didn't you take photos!!?? Next time you go on an assignment, take your camera young lady! I have looked at the floorplans on The Villages page for their premier homes and even done the virtual tour...no french doors like you described...