Published Mar 3, 2007

Tall Pines - Friendly community, close to beach & downtown.

FORT PIERCE, FL - Tall Pines Mobile Home Community is expanding to add 42 new mobile homes to its 200 existing homes. They are offering a lifetime guaranteed lot rent for new homes of $199 per month. That includes the use and maintenance of recreational facilities. Additionally, the Tall Pines owners are offering a home buy back guarantee if the community is sold to developers for land use change. All homes are built to hurricane standards; and utilities, including phone and cable television, are underground. Lots are generous enough in size to accommodate the largest mobile homes.

Located adjacent to St. Lucie Boulevard off U.S. 1 north of Fort Pierce, Tall Pines is a friendly 55-and-up community just minutes from the beaches of North Hut-chinson Island. Residents will find plenty to do in their new community, with a large solar-heated swimming pool, a canal where manatees and their calves frolic, and plenty of fishing. If you like watching birds, and perhaps snapping photos of them, you'll find several kinds of water birds are regular visitors, busily catching their dinner in the canal. The clubhouse features a very large activity room with a stage, a kitchen, a coffee area, and plenty of events to keep you busy. There are several clubs including the Tall Pines Pioneers, organized ac-tivities, bingo, a weekly coffee so-cial, card games, and crafts classes. Also offered are organized trips and excursions. Shuffleboard courts are open for tournaments and individual games. If horseshoes are your game, you can give the horseshoe pits a workout. There is a library next to the clubhouse and two billiard tables for those who want to try it or who already know how to play. If you love picnics, you'll find a picnic area with barbecue pit. Tall Pines has its own Laundromat for those who don't have a washer and dryer at home. There is RV and boat storage and a neighborhood crime patrol. Nearby, you'll find several golf courses, a hospital and doctor's offices, several large shopping malls in Vero Beach, two botan-ical gardens, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, places of worship, supermarket, antique shops, and historic downtown Fort Pierce. The restored historic area of Fort Pierce is charming, with all sorts of shops and restaurants to visit, a large marina with docks for power and sailboats, fishing charter boats, several parks and a farmer's market, frequent events, a well-known art gallery, visitor's center, and Manatee Observation and Education Center. Across North Bridge are several parks including a large state park with beach plus inlet access and both fishing and swimming, and a large boat launch. Across South Bridge is the St. Lucie County His-torical Museum, an inlet park with boat launch, and several beach-front parks. You will find Tall Pines Mobile Home Community at 314 South Erie Drive in Fort Pierce. Call the sales office at (772) 466-3733 or visit the Web site at www.tropicalislessales.com for more information.