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Posted on 9/8/21 at 4:40 pm to
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
39062 posts
Posted on 9/8/21 at 4:40 pm to
Just buy a house. Condos aren’t what I’d want to escape to. I’d probably go past Destin too. Mexico Beach, Port St Joe, St George Island, Apalachicola…
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
20525 posts
Posted on 9/9/21 at 11:53 am to
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Just buy a house


If you think HOA dues for condos are expensive, try owning a beach house within 2 blocks of the beach. The salt is absolutely hell on exteriors.

Condo HOA dues are for the most part actually very reasonable when you consider you get multiple utilities generally and sometimes you get everything but Electricity. On a beach property getting cable tv, internet, water, and trash is worth $250 or more a month. That could be upwards of 50% of your HOA dues for a smaller unit.

Condo Assessments are for the most part pretty rare, and certainly less often than the price of maintaining a property on your own. If assessments are not rare then you
Posted by WilsonPickett
St Amant, LA
Member since Oct 2009
1657 posts
Posted on 9/14/21 at 6:29 am to
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Just buy a house. Condos aren’t what I’d want to escape to. I’d probably go past Destin too. Mexico Beach, Port St Joe, St George Island, Apalachicola…


Yeah, we’re looking at that also. Probably don’t really wanna go any further. Driving to Destin is about as far as we wanna go. If we found a house/condo in Perdido Key-Pensacola we’d be cool with that also.
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