| For more than twenty years, my family has | | | | flyers and information on all of the rentals |
| planned a beach trip for each year. We always | | | | that they dealt with several days later. I |
| try to get adjoining hotel rooms so that we | | | | was overwhelmed but confident that we'd find |
| can walk back and forth and have more room. | | | | something in the pile that I was trying to |
| However, we simply have outgrown the concept | | | | organize. |
| of getting adjoining rooms now that our | | | | |
| family has grown up, and some have married | | | | I found that most of the beach house rentals |
| and have children. It has become clear that | | | | were much more expensive than the hotel rooms |
| we need something much larger. | | | | that we had outgrown. However, the costs |
| | | | would be reduced because there would be |
| My mother and I decided that we should | | | | several families staying there. We wanted to |
| probably start looking for some beach house | | | | find a house that had enough of bedrooms so |
| rentals. We also planned to cut the costs by | | | | that everyone had privacy and didn't have to |
| having everyone contribute. I immediately | | | | feel so cramped. We can save money on food |
| hopped on the World-Wide-Web to look for | | | | because all of the beach house rentals had |
| beach house rentals in the town that we | | | | kitchens. We do not have to worry about where |
| always vacation in. However, finding a house | | | | we were going to be eating breakfast or |
| to rent was much easier said than done, even | | | | dinner on any given day because we could |
| if my intentions were good. I did find a lot | | | | easily cook the majority of the meals. |
| of advertisements for real estate agencies in | | | | |
| the areas. I also wanted to make my own plans | | | | We quickly learned that you are responsible |
| because I didn't want to go through an agent. | | | | for your own cleaning with beach house |
| | | | rentals. This is because there is no |
| However, I wasn't very impressed with most of | | | | housekeeping that comes in daily to make your |
| the places that offered beach house rentals. | | | | beds and sweep the sand out of the house. You |
| I finally gave in after a few weeks and | | | | have to do all of that on your own. |
| called a real estate company in the town. I | | | | Fortunately, we were able to find a wonderful |
| asked them to mail me some information on | | | | beach house that we reserved for our normal |
| beach house rentals and anything that would | | | | vacation week. I'm sure that we'll be |
| be helpful. I received a package in the mail | | | | returning in the future because it turned out |
| that contained lots of catalogs, brochures, | | | | to be absolutely perfect. |