With a $100K membership fee, The 700-acre Founders Club with its Robert Trent Jones, Jr-designed course obviously isn't for everyone. It's a private club and only open to 275 members. Last week, the first residents started moving into the uber country-club community (emphasis on country, the club is located east of I-75 off Fruitville Road--GMAP). We certainly wouldn't think of intruding on moving day, but you can take a peek vicariously as the very first move-ins are toasted before the door to their new home.

In addition to the builders models which have been opening on a staggered schedule since February, in mid-April Founders announced the ground-breaking of 13 maintenance-free, 3000+ square-foot, $2,000,000+ golf cottages.

These homes are cottages in the sense that turn-of-the-century mansions in Newport were called cottages, although not nearly as extravagant or ostentatious.

Just for a point of reference, The Breakers, Cornelius Vanderbilt's Newport "cottage", boasts 70+ rooms and over 130,000 square feet.

Founders Club, Models Open [Luxury Sarasota Living]
Founders Club News [Founders Club]
Our First Residents [Founders Club]