Elkhart Ranch
Gadsden County, Florida⁞443± ACRES
SocialStorm® & High-fenced Recreational Property with all the amenities ready to step in, enjoy, and entertain
- 443± acre Social Storm® & High-fence Recreational Property Gadsden County, FL
- $3,100 per acre for the land and timber component plus the value of improvements discounted 30-35%
- 2,352 sq.ft. Two-Story Lodge, 3 BR, 2 ½ Bath with Wrap Around Porch and Breathtaking Views of the Pond - located in the center of the property
- 4± acre Spring-fed stocked pond with aeration, overflow systems, dock, plus two additional ponds
- New 1,200 sq.ft. Outdoor Kitchen with Viking Grill, deep fryer, kegerator, television, & patio with gas fire pit overlooking beautiful views of the Lake
- Entire Property surrounded by 8 ft. High Fenced for Privacy, Security, and the Ultimate in Wildlife Management
- Over a Mile on Clear Flowing Hard Sand Bottom Bear Creek
- 2017 Morton Horse barn with 4 stalls, airconditioned office and tack room, ½ bath, & Loft storage above
- Multiple Wood Shooting Houses overlooking 30 Acres of food plots
- Elevated, Climate-Controlled shooting house with targets out to 900 yards
- 15± acre Professionally designed Motocross Track
- Located approximately 23 Minutes from Tallahassee near the Apalachicola National Forest
- Exotics not included in price - Negotiable
- Breeder Whitetail Deer not included in price - Negotiable
- Just minutes from Lake Talquin, an 8,800-Acre Lake, Nationally recognized as an outstanding fishery
Designed for those that love entertaining, Have a passion for the outdoors and wildlife, and enjoy a private retreat!
From the moment you pull through the electronic gated main entrance, you know you have arrived at one of the best SocialStorm® properties available - a phenomenal sportsman’s private getaway. Flanked by excellent quail grounds and pines - the internal road system features grated and maintained roads that navigate through the rolling hills of the land. With sandy bottom clear running creeks, three ponds, white fencing, a new horse barn, high fence for privacy and wildlife, and a lodge on a hilltop overlooking the pond, this private retreat has it all.
Surrounding the entire property, is an 8’ high-fence with portions of wind screen/privacy cover around the street-view perimeter providing for the ultimate in privacy and wildlife. Elkhart Ranch is currently home to over 200 free-ranging indigenous and exotic animals. Exotic animals include Elk, Blackbuck Antelope, Scimitar Oryx, Gemsbok Antelope, Nilgai, Pere David Deer, Axis Deer and Fallow Deer. Exotic Animals are not included in price, but remain negotiable. Around 100 white tail deer with DNA-verified pedigrees round out the preserve animals.
The property has approximately 1.07± miles on Bear Creek, two additional creeks, a 4± acre pond, and two smaller ponds. The 4 acre spring-fed pond with aeration and overflow systems has a dock and is stocked with bass, shad, and over 86 carp.
The two-story Main Lodge boasts 2,352 sq. feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths and a wrap-around porch. It features wood floors, 20+ ft. vaulted pine ceilings and pine walls, beautiful pine wainscoting throughout bedrooms, and a stone fireplace. The 1,200± square foot outdoor kitchen/patio built in 2017 has a gas fireplace, television, and a Viking grill, deep fryer, kegerator, and more. The front yard is picturesque with white fencing and beautiful views of the pond.
In 2020, an elevated shooting house was constructed to allow shooters to engage targets at multiple distances all the way out to 900 yards, all while remaining out of the elements and comfortable with air conditioning. The enclosed shooting house features windows for both benchrest and prone shooting, mini-fridge, television, and work bench.
A new four-stall Morton Horse barn with air-conditioned office, air-conditioned tack room, ½ bath, and loft storage above was built in 2017. There are five acres of fenced horse pasture; all are great additions to the property for the equine enthusiast. There is also a storage barn and equipment barn. If your idea of horsepower is motorized, the property has a 15± acre professionally-designed motocross track that will certainly provide thrills. Additionally, a newly built skeet range and trap house are sure to be a blast - great for entertaining guests, clients, friends or family!
The property boasts over 6 custom shooting houses plus additional blinds and tree stands. Nearly 30 acres throughout the property are planted food plots. Ten custom, large animal feeders are utilized for supplemental feed.
Income Potential - The current owner has a world-class trophy whitetail deer breeding program and facility on the property. The current manager is an expert in the field, and can run the entire operations should the new owner want to continue this aspect of the property. Changing nothing, if you were to sell the deer that they currently released from the breeding operation, it would be approximately $94,000 a year income.
A Social Storm® Ranked Property: Elkhart Ranch and it's Social Storm® Property Attributes are Highly Ranked. This Social Storm® property belongs to a unique asset class with key property attributes that investors gravitate to for safety in bad times and buy for a recreation reward in good times.
Why choose a Social Storm® Property?
The adjoining neighbor to Elkhart Ranch is the Lake Talquin State Park and Bear Creek Educational Center with hiking and biking trails. This private getaway offers something for the entire family year-round. Lake Talquin, one of North Florida's Largest Lakes, is minutes away and provides some of the best freshwater fishing.
This is a rare opportunity on a high-fence preserve with all the amenities ready to step in and enjoy and entertain, located conveniently just 23 minutes to Tallahassee
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Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.