Cypress Hill
Madison County, Florida⁞198± ACRES
The Quintessential Gentleman’s Farm - Optimal Recreation and Luxury Living Amid Beautiful Landscapes
- 198+/- acre high-quality recreational property located in Madison County, Florida
- Three lakes: one 15+/- acre lake, and two ½ acre ponds; great fishing / sunsets
- Covered dock with boat lift
- Lakeside gazebo
- Gorgeous landscapes - Pecan groves, planted timber, moss-draped oaks, Cypress lake
- 5,395 sq. ft 4-BR/3-BA + two ½ BA Modern Home Built in 2020
- Open floor plan in kitchen / living area
- Great design aesthetics
- Modern kitchen with granite countertops
- Hidden wine cellar
- Game room / lounge with Heart Pine detail, oversized brick fireplace, and full bar
- Lighted pool area with outdoor cooking pavilion
- Charming 500 sq. ft. 1BR / 1-BA Silo House
- Extra 700 sq. ft. 1BR / 1-BA barndominium with porch and kitchen
- Fully lighted 5-stand skeet range
- Fully enclosed 30x40 heated/cooled equipment barn with two lean-tos (two lean-tos 15X30 and 10X30)
- Covered 15x20 pole barn
- Covered 10x20 pole barn
- Three additional 10x10 lean tos - one at the silo, one at high house and one at shooting range
- Four RV hook ups with power and water
- Chicken Coop
- Abundant wildlife and deer stands
- 15 minutes to Madison, Florida, 20 minutes to Quitman, GA, 45 minutes to Valdosta, GA, & 50 minutes to Thomasville, GA
- One hour to Tallahassee, FL
- Under two hours to the coast
One of the Best Social Storm™ Property Settings we Have Seen Come for Sale in Quite Some Time
Cypress Hill is a gorgeous 198+/- acre high-quality recreational property located in Madison County, Florida. Purchased as an open canvas, every acre of this immaculate property was thoughtfully curated by the current landowners for optimal recreational enjoyment, luxury living, and beauty. The property is quite diverse, with rolling topography, moss-draped live oaks, pecan and timber allees, multiple ponds/lakes, cypress trees, open parklike areas, and more. This property is ready to step in to and enjoy.
From the gate to the drive in, to the new build home, additional accommodations, and more, no detail went overlooked upon design. Knowing one day the view would be indescribable, the landowner chose to plant both a pecan grove allee, along with planted timber stands splitting the road just beyond. As the drive turns through, it eventually opens to a large parklike area. Overlooking moss-draped oaks, a stunning 5,395 square foot, 4-bedroom, 3-bath, 2-1/2-bath home offers front porch views of a cypress-laden, 15+/-acre lake, with rolling hills enveloping the water just beyond.
“This is the second property that we have represented for this landowner. He has a knack for creating family destinations and adding amenities that really accentuate the land.” - Jon Kohler
Classic southern charm from the exterior, with modern amenities, and top-of-the-line craftsmanship inside, the home is a true showstopper. The kitchen is large and made for entertaining, with an open floor plan to the living room and dining area. The stairwell upstairs serves as a design point, lined from floor to ceiling with narrow drawers. There are two master suites with two full baths and two half baths downstairs, with two bedrooms and one bathroom upstairs. Adjacent to the kitchen is a formal dining room, and just beyond awaits a stately game room with heart pine floors, ceilings, and walls, a large well-stocked bar for entertaining, and one of the largest wood-burning fireplaces we have seen in our 30-year career.
“It would take every bit of 2 years to build everything that’s here. Coming from a 1.5-year remodel myself, the level of detail and attention the landowner put into this is humbling.” - Jon Kohler
The current landowner loves hosting family and friends for gatherings – as such, tucked away hidden from sight in built-in shelving between the game room and outside pool area, is a doorway, and set of stairs that lead to an incredible approx. 144 sq. ft. wine cellar with built in humidor.
The outside pool area has every amenity one could hope for when it too comes to entertaining. From color-changing lights to the covered outdoor cooking pavilion, complete with green egg, smoker, flat top, and more.
Beyond the pool awaits another entertainment feature. A fully lighted skeet range complete with high and low houses and all five stands. Beyond the skeet range is a smaller ½ acre pond with its own dock. The sun sets just perfectly over this dock, and the current landowners enjoy nightly retreats to the dock.
Enlisting the help of a top aquatic biologist, the 15-acre lake has been dramatically improved. The borders are clear of shrubbery, and accessible lake-round. Trees were removed to ensure the star of the show would be a large cypress slough just across from the private, covered dock with a lift. Fish and wildlife are abundant, with nesting birds flocking to the large cypress heads.
“The wildlife, bird life, and wild game here is everything one would expect from a 1st class high-quality recreational property.” - Jon Kohler
Walking distance from the main lake, is a quaint lake-side gazebo, a tree swing, and a unique, yet equally charming silo-house to accommodate overflow guests. The landowners hand-selected the silo and had it shipped to the property to be converted into its own sleeping quarters. Cozy is an understatement, with pitched, wood-lined walls and a private bath inside the silo.
There are multiple equipment barns onsite, including an 1800 sq. ft. heated and cooled enclosed storage barn, two open-air pole barns (15x20 and 10x20), three lean-tos (at the silo, shooting range, and low-house), and another 700 sq. ft. heated/cooled storage barn that was also converted into its own living quarters with a front porch overlooking the chicken coop, and its own private kitchen/bath. Lodging options don’t end there, as there are also 4 RV hook ups with power and water.
Wildlife is abundant, from well-stocked fisheries, and wood ducks, to ample deer and turkey. A third body of water lies to the right of the main home, and a deer stand lies on top of a hill for the hunter.
Cypress Hill’s Social Storm™ attributes are highly ranked. With its dynamic recreation, 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.
“This is one of the best Social Storm™ Property settings we have seen come for sale in quite some time. This is exactly the type of place where one would want to spend the next pandemic, or worse.” - Jon Kohler
As for location, Cypress Hill is ideal. Located just 15 minutes to Madison, Florida and 20 minutes Quitman, Georgia - both charming towns with great shops and dining - the property is easy to get to. It is only 45 minutes to Valdosta, GA , 50 minutes to Thomasville, Georgia, and just one hour to Tallahassee, Florida.
The landowners have loved every minute of this project and with this work of art complete, the landowner is turning to their next legacy project. This is a rare opportunity to step right into a gorgeous property, built for entertaining with zero deferred maintenance.
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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.