Condos @ Venice Marina

Which ones? The ones past the marina by the cabins, or the ones before the marina on left?

I haven’t been in the ones past the marina (by the cabins), but my really good buddy owns one before marina on the left (across from parking lot). Used to go down there a few times a month (we split a boat that stayed in their lift). Sold boat though and been busy so haven’t been down much this year.

Like you said, they’re pretty nice and more like a second home. Think theirs was built after Katrina, but not really positive to be honest.

Combination of people that live down there owning them (charter guides/owners), people that rent them out, people that only use them a few times and rent them out when not using them, or just private owners that use it as a “camp”.

I don’t have any experience with these condos, but I had a contractor call me personally one day (lead installer for a stone company), and say he needed the stone we had fabricated in shop installed the following evening. An attorney who did alot of business with us was having a party at his new duck camp in Holmes County outside Thornton, MS that weekend. Our boss agreed to let us use the install truck and the contractor was going to pay us cash for whatever rate we charged him because we wouldn’t be leaving Flowood until 2:30-3.

Holy shite! We wound up in the middle of absolute nowhere, went through a couple of gates to get to the place. It wasn’t huge; I think it was 3 bed, 5 bath, but the finishes were out of this world. Marble in the bathrooms, quartzite in the kitchen, full height backsplashes, a double waterfall island, solid wood floors, imported faucets and fixtures, a range from France, multiple wood burning fireplaces. It was crazy, and it was sitting in the middle of a crop field. The equipment shed out back had full size excavators, dozers, multiple tractors, 3-4 crew cab rangers lifted with enclosed cabs, multiple boats. You could see the water structures and the flooded timber from the porch and when we started loading up around 9 that night you could hear the ducks chattering in the distance.

I grew up going to SE Arkansas to duck hunt. Folks I went to the school with thought we were rich, rich simply because I was going duck hunting. We were staying in a single wide we bought from a brother man outside Clarendon. Times have changed. I used to run all over Monroe county, Arkansas as a kid from Mississippi and hunt like crazy. Granted a couple of my dad’s good friends were born and raised there, but things have drastically changed in the last 20-25 years. I bunked with my pops in the back of a trailer that had fricking glow in the dark stars and moons all over the ceiling and walls. I remember when everything started getting leased and my honey holes and sloughs got bought up and bruh man told me I couldn’t come around there no more. My dad used to trade Freon charge ups and HVAC services for me to hunt behind folks houses and shite. Now there’s multi million dollar camps in that area.

I have a buddy that owns one, yes they are nice. It's probably 50/50 individuals and companies. You cannot get insurance, well you can, but it's not worth it due to cost. They typically survive hurricanes with minimal damage, but a Katrina type event could be a total loss, and keep in mind Katrina was 20 years ago.