Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Parti Week?

partiYour wallet might be tightening up just like your IT band & hamstrings, but OBX is a tradition needing you (+ your ca$h).

Our resident vacation spot realtor seeks your input:
> Is you in?
(Mon 10/12 = Columbus Day)

> Shall we risk it /or/ reserve now?

...the possibility of doing a partial-week rental for a house this year...they won’t even consider partial week rentals until 2-3 weeks before the rental date (i.e. end of September).

As you can imagine, we wouldn’t get a truly prorated price (i.e. you divide the base price by 5, not 7, and multiply by the number of nights you want to stay), but we could save around $1100-$1200 if we did this for a house that would otherwise cost $5k base. While there would be a substantial risk that all the 12 room houses in Corolla would be gone, she seemed to think there would definitely still be 10 room houses left in Nags Head or Kill Devil Hills. There are currently 23 houses that fit our parameters (i.e. oceanfront, pool, hot tub, 10 rooms or more).
Remember: actual price is a good 15% higher because of taxes, pool heating, etc.

Issue with kill devil/nagshead as well as some other non-corolla houses: we’ve not always had good beaches. (We seem to have had consistently good luck with Corolla beaches.
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