Luxurious Golf Front Condo overlooking the 5th Tee on the El Campeon Course

About Tom Grizzard

My wife and I have been in the real estate business in nearby Leesburg for more tha 40 years, and as we began thinking about retirement, we chose Mission Inn Resort as our retirement home because of the high level of maintenance of the golf course and amenities. We are only about 45 minutes from Disney World and shopping in Orlando and about the same distance to all the activities, restaurants, and shopping in The Villages. I was born and raised in Leesburg, graduated from Sewanee Military Academy in Tennessee, Florida State University in Tallahassee and served in US Army Artillery in Anchorage Alaska. My wife, Linda was born in Marion, Indiana, and moved to Florida in 1975 earned her real estate license and came to work for our real estate company, ERA Tom Grizzard. We have 6 children and 13 grandchildren... Two of our daughters and their families live in the Portland Maine area, one daughter lives nearby in Windermere, one son is in commercial insurance in St. Petersburg, one son is in the hearing aid business in the Villages, and I sold our company to our oldest son, Gus , who lives in Leesburg, 8 years ago. So now i can concentrate on selling commercial real estate with our commercial team.

Why Tom Grizzard chose Howey-in-the-Hills

As mentioned before, this property is uniquely located in the geographic center of Florida. It is only about 1.5 hour from Daytona Beach on the East Coast and the same to Clearwater Beach on the West Coast. We are only 45 minutes to DisneyWorld, less than 15 minutes to shopping in Mount Dora and Leesburg, and ony 30 minutes to Winter Garden Village.

What makes this Condo unique

We enjoy having our morning coffee sitting in the rockers on the screened lanai, watching the sun come up behind us and filling in the trees and hills as it rises above our building.