Myrtle Trace at The Plantation is a maintenance-free community of single-story attached villas in south Venice, Sarasota County, built in the early-to-mid 1980s within The Plantation Golf and Country Club (Myrtle Trace Condominium Association and HOA-Resource listings, 2026). It is a small, established community of roughly 178 villas with a clubhouse and heated community pool.
The structure matters here. Myrtle Trace is organized as a condominium association rather than a single-family HOA, and each owner is also a member of the Plantation Management Association, the master association for the wider community (Myrtle Trace Condominium Association, 2026). That means two layers of governance and fees, and the condo-specific diligence of reserves and structural reserve studies under Florida's updated condominium law.
The Plantation Golf and Country Club is a non-gated master community of several distinct neighborhoods, including single-family homes, villas, patio homes, and condominiums. Membership in the club, with its two 18-hole golf courses, tennis, bocce, pickleball, and dining, is optional and not required to own a villa here (Plantation Golf and Country Club, 2026), so a buyer can choose a maintenance-free villa without committing to golf dues.
The honest read is the total carry and the documents, not the sticker. Confirm the condo association fee and what it covers, the reserve funding posture and any structural reserve study, the separate Plantation master-association assessment, the rental and pet rules, and the flood zone for the specific villa before you fall for a price.
