This is my dream beach home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This. Technically not private beach but in reality it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s far away, but I like this one.

https://www.redfin.com/SC/Pawleys-Island/376-Tip-Top-End-Myrtle-Ave-29585/home/188825810

Wrong direction. Too red.

Time to change that -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t want a beach house, but I’d did, I’d make a lowball offer on this and fix it up or rebuild for 2mio
https://www.redfin.com/DE/Bethany-Beach/1206-S-Ocean-Dr-19930/home/135430796

Agree. spend $2m on a new home in that location and you are in a way better position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

My beach town back in the 1970s fought and won to have our own building department. Starting 1982 they banned any building over two stories tall, banned any multifamily housing, banned any new commercial property, banned any hotels, banned any religous buildings or even schools. They bascially in 1982 made any new construction SFH only.

Over the years since 1982 when they were able they would buy the few remaining commercial properties. Town would either raze the building and make it a park and often just become the landlord so they control what business in the buidling.

The town is now unfortantely getting the McMansion effect happening. As builders can only build SFH so they knock down the few remaining orginal condition small homes and build new ones. It is at point people buy two million homes knock them down and build 8 million dollar homes.

I have a crappy place in town. The last remaining small condo complex built 1978. It actually started the restrictions and several more were planned until they incorporated and stopped them in 1982. My place is worth much more than is should be. it is on a block of 2-10 million dollar homes.

To do this in Sandy they took zero federal dollars to rebuild boardwalk and beach. They cant take money from Fed as would have to open beach. I dont know what they would do in a massive storm. it may force them to open them.

Well, the good news is that by 2040 the whole town is going to be abandoned, so...

[Anonymous]

hell no for this house. New cookie cutter McMansion. no, thank you

[Anonymous]

I could buy ocean front on Sanibel Island and be on the gulf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could buy ocean front on Sanibel Island and be on the gulf.

Well, what's left of it after hurricane Ian. Good luck with that into the future. Instead of being on the gulf, you could be in the gulf.

[Anonymous]

Obviously the developer/agent posting on this board hoping to find a rich DC person with more money than common sense.

[Anonymous]

Too close to the neighbors. I am familiar with that area and it's a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never been to rehoboth but I've seen pictures and it looks insanely crowded. So by "private beach" do you mean no randoms are allowed on the beach in front of your hose?

It's N. Bethany, not Rehobeth.

[Anonymous]

That's not on the beach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

That’s a big ocean front house. Of course it’s more expensive.

$5.4 for a smaller oceanfront house:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2614-Palm-Blvd-Isle-Of-Palms-SC-29451/10936856_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

$4 m will get you a house on the Intracoastal with a dock 2.5 blocks from the beach:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/707-Palm-Blvd-Isle-Of-Palms-SC-29451/10935679_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

Or a second row house with a pool:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2301-Palm-Blvd-Isle-Of-Palms-SC-29451/10936791_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

My beach town back in the 1970s fought and won to have our own building department. Starting 1982 they banned any building over two stories tall, banned any multifamily housing, banned any new commercial property, banned any hotels, banned any religous buildings or even schools. They bascially in 1982 made any new construction SFH only.

Over the years since 1982 when they were able they would buy the few remaining commercial properties. Town would either raze the building and make it a park and often just become the landlord so they control what business in the buidling.

The town is now unfortantely getting the McMansion effect happening. As builders can only build SFH so they knock down the few remaining orginal condition small homes and build new ones. It is at point people buy two million homes knock them down and build 8 million dollar homes.

I have a crappy place in town. The last remaining small condo complex built 1978. It actually started the restrictions and several more were planned until they incorporated and stopped them in 1982. My place is worth much more than is should be. it is on a block of 2-10 million dollar homes.

To do this in Sandy they took zero federal dollars to rebuild boardwalk and beach. They cant take money from Fed as would have to open beach. I dont know what they would do in a massive storm. it may force them to open them.

Well, the good news is that by 2040 the whole town is going to be abandoned, so...

It scares me to think you’re cruelly dumb enough to believe that. But on the other hand, if there are enough of you, then maybe prices for waterfront will go down to reasonable levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The water there is cold. I’m fine with it since I the landscape is beautiful and I only swim in clear water like the Caribbean anyway. But most people interested in OP’s house want to swim and be near DC. If they didn’t care about swimming in the ocean, they’d get a house on the Chesapeake bay to closer to DC.

[Anonymous]

Longtime Rehoboth renter/resident here. This house is gorgeous, and exceedingly well-equipped. Location two houses in from the beach is perfect - easy access and the beach is your playground.