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re: Let's check in on the RE and vacation rental market in Galveston
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:10 pm to SuperSaint
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:10 pm to SuperSaint
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we’ve done this for the most part. There was a stretch where I was doing Airbnb for almost all vacation travel and only using hotels during work travel. But the last maybe 2 years went exclusively to hotel accommodations
I’ve always stuck with hotels. Much less likely chance your butthole ends up on the internet where in a STR you never know what kind of a person owns it.
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:27 pm to TTB
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Why do you hate brown sand?!
Because it's a lighter shade of brown than the water?
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:28 pm to SuperSaint
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Unless the place really adds value to the trip, being a perfect location and being a place to host during big family vacations, mostly not worth the hassle
When I look at the cost and capacity for what's often available now for beach rentals, I can't imagine who would want that unless it's Grammaw and Pawpaw's anniversary and they expect the whole family.
I have a hard time finding a small, old beach house or cabin like I remember from my childhood.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 6:22 pm to bad93ex
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stunning coastal city
Still in the MS Sound, actually the currents push the brackish water in their direction. Brackish water looks like crap.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 6:49 pm to stout
Somewhere, Charles Barkley is laughing
Posted on 9/20/25 at 7:16 pm to stout
Galveston sucks. Really really sucks. Do not waste your time.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 8:41 pm to stout
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Also, people are going back to hotels over STRs, so even if the market isn't currently oversaturated in some spots, it will be.
This is true and not talked about enough. An STR is now my distant second option as my kids have gotten older. Full service hotels are nicer, with restaurants, room service, a bar, and housekeeping and no obnoxious ‘service fee’ or ‘departure cleaning fee’. Places like the Florida panhandle and 30a are probably relatively safe, but other markets (like NOLA) are absolutely exposed as the trend accelerates.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:01 pm to MWP
Rutherford beach is 100x better
Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:32 pm to stout
Kinda like all the people that bought boats during Covid. You can’t even sell them for loan value now
Posted on 9/20/25 at 9:37 pm to stout
No HEB, no bueno.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:21 pm to stout
Sounds like a good time to swoop in. Galveston’s got a pretty cool housing stock and the seawall, for all the negative impacts it’s had on the beach, has kept all that cool shite from getting flattened for 120 years.
It’s astonishing that Galveston hasn’t been properly gentrified to this point.
It’s astonishing that Galveston hasn’t been properly gentrified to this point.
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 9/21/25 at 5:47 am to SuperSaint
Airbnb was nothing but unlicensed “investors” scamming hotels. One has zero accountability while the other is harassed with government and health regulations as well as huge taxes.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 6:34 am to stout
Buying rental property on any coast can be very rewarding and very risky all at the same time.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 6:41 am to stout
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stunning coastal city
Anyone with a brain could drive to Galvatraz and prove this statement to be bullshite.
Brown sand, muddy water , oil rig on the horizon, crime and poors all over.
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This post was edited on 9/21/25 at 6:45 am
Posted on 9/21/25 at 6:54 am to stout
WTF is wrong with you?
Posted on 9/21/25 at 7:30 am to PUB
quote:Daily resort fees make hotels the scammers.
scamming hotels.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:05 am to stout
Galveston was most definitely a vacation destination back in the day and a very wealthy port city where most of the cotton in TX was exported from. It was a destination for movie stars
Holly Beach at its height (before Hurricane Audrey) was a shanty town where camps had cast off furniture and Army surplus metal beds. It also served as a meeting spot for duck hunters before and after hunts during the season.
Holly Beach at its height (before Hurricane Audrey) was a shanty town where camps had cast off furniture and Army surplus metal beds. It also served as a meeting spot for duck hunters before and after hunts during the season.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:08 am to stout
Sounds like time to send super lowball offers to all of them and see who’s desperate.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 12:12 pm to Flavius Belisarius
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This is true and not talked about enough. An STR is now my distant second option as my kids have gotten older. Full service hotels are nicer, with restaurants, room service, a bar, and housekeeping and no obnoxious ‘service fee’ or ‘departure cleaning fee’. Places like the Florida panhandle and 30a are probably relatively safe, but other markets (like NOLA) are absolutely exposed as the trend accelerates.
There’s never been much reason to use a vacation rental if it’s just 1 or 2 people. That’s always been an incredible small portion of the market. Vacation rentals blow hotels out of the market the larger your family or group gets. 3-4 couples or bedrooms needed? Vacation rental is much better and generally much cheaper than 3-4 hotel rooms.
The STR market blew up because people wanted a vacation with space from other people. Cruises, resorts, some entire islands, etc were shut down. Of course it was a gigantic bubble. No one wanted to fly either
STR’s also blew up because those that could afford it bought 2nd and 3rd homes to have somewhere to go. Once people were willing to fly again and everywhere opened up, of course that bubble was going to pop.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 2:44 pm to stout
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no...chasing that easy money
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oversaturation of people chasing “easy money”
You seem bitter. Plopping down 250k plus, isn't exactly "easy"
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