This is my dream beach home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not oceanfront and no walkway to beach

good news is that the next good storm that comes through could make it very waterfront.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's up with the parking lot next door?

It’s all the cars for the house next door.

And what’s up with the big concrete block in front of the house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's up with the parking lot next door?

It’s all the cars for the house next door.

And what’s up with the big concrete block in front of the house?

it's where the previous house before it got washed away.

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Anonymous wrote:The house is nice, but it needs to be oceanfront, with a shaded gazebo on the walkway, it needs a hot tub with an ocean view, and of course a large private pool.

Agree, although a small pool would suffice for me.

Add on a screened in porch and a pool and make it oceanfront, then we would just have to haggle over the price. But $6.2 million for third row with no pool, no thanks--unless of course you would consider trading for a slightly older bridge to Brooklyn.

It’s not third row, it’s the third house back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I paid $1.5 for waterfront on the eastern shore 5 years ago, huge pool with deep end and diving board, pier, jet skis (plus lifts), nice neighbors, 1.5 hour drive from DMV (or less).

Not the ocean though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But where else will your high school kids be able to flex on their peers and by extension you flexing on those kids parents in some po dunk town in Florida or South Carolina?

Isle of Palms? Hardly "po dunk."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

Please share.

Hilton Head. Same price, with a pool, yard, and beach front



https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14-Armada-St-Hilton-Head-Island-SC-29928/68784439_zpid/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But where else will your high school kids be able to flex on their peers and by extension you flexing on those kids parents in some po dunk town in Florida or South Carolina?

Isle of Palms? Hardly "po dunk."

Also significantly more expensive.

https://www.redfin.com/SC/Isle-of-Palms/112-Ocean-Blvd-29451/home/68887056

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delaware or Maryland in General have no private beaches.

Look at Ocean City MD they posted ( 8 million people visited their beaches in 2023).

with tons of hotels and and AIRBnBs and day trippers the whole Rehoboth to Ocean City Stretch is crowded.

Now compare that to Beach Front Dune Road in Hamptons. There are zero chain hotels, handful of small motels or BnBs in area. Airbnb is illegal for stays less than one month. The big stretch on Dune Road is all no parking with no shoulder except a Sand Shoulder you pull over get stuck. No public entrance to beach between houses.

Technically beach is public but only below high water line and you have to walk 2-3 miles from public area to get to a beach in front of you mansion and there are no bathrooms or lifeguards.

Even Joe Bidens multi million home in Rehoboth has no private beach access.

I own a beach place in a town I rather not mention but all our beaches are resident only, we sell zero day passes, they are in non resident parking zones and gated. Need picture ID to enter. It is not private since open to town, but unlike the Delaware beach no riff raft.

North Bethany runs about three miles from the northern edge of Bethany Beach to the Indian River Inlet.
There are no chains or high rises. Lots of $$$ SFHs with walking paths onto the beach.
Many of the communities are gated, so while not 100% private beaches, you would have to walk miles along the beach to get there.

[Anonymous]

Thank you all for pointing out its many flaws! I no longer covet this house!!

[Anonymous]

My dream home is just ... not in Delaware. I have no interest in being there. I'm more of a CA or New England person when it comes to a dream beach home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But where else will your high school kids be able to flex on their peers and by extension you flexing on those kids parents in some po dunk town in Florida or South Carolina?

Isle of Palms? Hardly "po dunk."

Also significantly more expensive.

https://www.redfin.com/SC/Isle-of-Palms/112-Ocean-Blvd-29451/home/68887056

Ocean views? Of course. But def not po dunk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People really need to get out more. There are lots of places in this country where you can get true oceanfront properties on beaches that basically get almost zero people, for much much less than $6 million.

Please share.

Try Northern California (north of SF) or Oregon. Even if you haven't traveled much, these places are not hard to find with Zillow and Redfin. But unlike Bethany, they won't allow you to flex how rich you are to show to all of your striver DC peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private beach, huge and new. All it needs is a pool. Gorgeous.

Do you agree? What would you change?

https://www.redfin.com/DE/Bethany-Beach/39889-Bennett-Rd-19930/home/134941644

The location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delaware or Maryland in General have no private beaches.

Look at Ocean City MD they posted ( 8 million people visited their beaches in 2023).

with tons of hotels and and AIRBnBs and day trippers the whole Rehoboth to Ocean City Stretch is crowded.

Now compare that to Beach Front Dune Road in Hamptons. There are zero chain hotels, handful of small motels or BnBs in area. Airbnb is illegal for stays less than one month. The big stretch on Dune Road is all no parking with no shoulder except a Sand Shoulder you pull over get stuck. No public entrance to beach between houses.

Technically beach is public but only below high water line and you have to walk 2-3 miles from public area to get to a beach in front of you mansion and there are no bathrooms or lifeguards.

Even Joe Bidens multi million home in Rehoboth has no private beach access.

I own a beach place in a town I rather not mention but all our beaches are resident only, we sell zero day passes, they are in non resident parking zones and gated. Need picture ID to enter. It is not private since open to town, but unlike the Delaware beach no riff raft.


Because it would take you too long to go find a believable place/house?