Palm Hill Country Club
(July 2009) Palm Hill Country Club is a cooperative manufactured home community located in the fine city of Largo. This location is convenient to St. Petersburg, the beaches, and airports. There are a little over 1000 homes here, with resales available from $5k to $150k. It is an all-owner community: everyone owns a share of the association and the share price is quite reasonable compared to comparable communities ($25,000). The monthly maintenance fee of $252 is also very reasonable, and covers lawn maintenance, including mowing and edging, water, sewer, cable, trash twice a week, land lease payments, irrigation, maintenance of streets, and community facilities.
The many amenities inlude two clubhouses, a large pool + spa, two small pools + spa, two shuffleboard centers (one indoors), bocce courts (2), libraries (2), billiards and horseshoes (2), cable TV, and three tennis courts. There’s a nine-hole par 30 golf course with pro shop, and residents can play all year for an annual fee.
For more information, contact Lynn Wyszynski at 727-581-8729, email at lynn_palmhill@tampabay.rr.com or visit Palm Hill Country Club .
July 27, 2009 at 1:00 pm
When you visited, did you drive around Palm Hill and notice all the For Sale signs? Did you actually talk to any residents before blogging about the park? Dozens of shareholders, including myself, are trying to sell their homes, and many are accepting offers well below market value just to get out. We have a self-serving board of directors that follow the rules only if they suit them and look the other way when rules are broken by themselves or people they like. Our monthly fee has increased by two-thirds in just four years, and what will happen when the lease on the land expires at the end of this year? Palm Hill is not the paradise you make it out to be!
July 27, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Unfortunately, in order to visit as many communities as possible during our 6 day visit, we didn’t have nearly enough time to schedule and conduct interviews with residents. That’s why we have comments on our blog, for residents and others to provide their own perspective about the communities. We thank you for contributing your comments and sympathize with your predicament.
We did indeed drive around the community and did not notice an unusual number of for sale signs compared to other places we visited. Sadly, we saw that many community residents at various parks were feeling the pain caused by this housing collapse with depressed prices and remaining residents forced to pay more to maintain facilities and services.