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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maintenance is an issue and f you don't have a home owners asspciation that deals with it. Kids sports and activities are also a big issue - both cost and time.

We have one and use it a lot. We still vacation other places. Kids schedules are the biggest limiting factor for us. When they aren't busy, we go every weekend. We don't rent ours. We love it.

Parking isn't an issue unless you want to be near the boardwalk. We're in DE and we, like most people we know with beach houses, go to a state park beach. There's almost always parking. [/quote]

OP here.  One plus of the house is very low HOA fees.  One negative of the house is that the HOA really doesn't do anything other than maintain the pool.  So we are responsible for all maintenance.  How difficult would this be?  We would have to hire a lawn service for weekly mowing (which we do here now).  Get the gutters cleaned once a year, and schedule annual HVAC maintenance.  What else am I not thinking about?[/quote]

You are not thinking that your kids will want to do sports or other activities or go to birthday parties and not want to go to the beach on weekends during the year. If you have 4 weeks to vacation each summer maybe you will eventually want to visit other places like National Parks, Europe, Florida. It seems cheaper to rent a house on the beach each year. [/quote]

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