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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Rhodes Ranch – Of Golf and Palm Trees

Rhodes Ranch is born out of the desert at the base of the Spring Mountains and has been transformed quite miraculously into a lush tropical oasis. A luxurious golfing community with a variety of home designs, it boasts of one of the best golf courses in the region. Spread over 1,500 acres this planned golf course community, located in the southwest part of the Las Vegas valley offers a tranquil haven for those who want to escape the throb and excitement of the Las Vegas strip. This premier guarded and gated community in the currently most popular SW Las Vegas neighborhood has the advantage of being just five miles west of the famed Las Vegas strip and only ten minutes from the airport.

The Rhodes Ranch Golf Course was opened to the public for play in late 1997. The jewel has been designed by Ted Robinson. Gentle rolling fairways and roughs that are broken up by mass plantings of tropical palms, make up this162 acre course. The varying elevations of over 1200 feet above sea level offer stunning views of the city. The golf course has numerous water features, and is suitable for golfers of all skill levels. Look at the three thousand palm trees and you will imagine yourself to be anywhere but in the desert environment. If you are a golfer, you must have a game at the Rhodes Ranch Golf Club that continues to receive high praise and accolades from everywhere. The golf course is a privately owned public access golf course with no equity or social memberships. Local residents receive a discount so it is one more reason to live in or take a rental in this utopian golf community.

Rhodes Homes offers several designs in homes that range from almost eighteen hundred square feet to over four thousand square feet. Even though there are nine well-known builders who are represented at Rhodes Ranch, only Rhodes Homes are continuing to build, as of now. Five thousand homes are on the cards to be built in eight distinct sub sections or neighborhoods. A beautiful new recreation center with swimming pools, fitness center and recreational facilities is operational

The community is without doubt a good investment proposition too and as of February 2006, sales activity for resale homes for the last 3 months reflects sales from $342,500, to $985,000 with a median price of $446,000. Rhodes Ranch golf course community is obviously a highly sought after neighborhood. One cannot however help comparing it with Mountains Edge, where the natural history and environment of Nevada is being preserved and even highlighted. Honestly, one wonders at the justification of bringing Florida to Nevada when the region boasts of such rugged natural beauty. As of now, the infrastructure of the community has been a bit of problem in the area. However, there now is a new shopping center with a grocery store just to the north of Rhodes Ranch.