Are there any? We are selling a rental this summer and want to reinvest in a rental home in Florida that we will use a couple times a year. Need help zeroing in on a few areas. Suggestions? Probably Vero Beach and south. Open to anything as lon as it’s relatively low density…mostly residential or small condo complexes. (We’re experienced landlords and I am aware of the fact that different areas have different regulations about rental terms.)
How much of a town do you want? From Cocoa Beach to Miami, you can go on the A1A for a long time with just houses or older cinder block houses, but then you’re also not that close to grocery stores or restaurants. For rental, I’m sure you’d have down weeks.
Melbourne Beach down to Sabastian’s Inlet is pretty ‘low rise’. Often the ocean side units are 2 story town houses, and the ‘inside’ communities are owner occupied. North of Melbourne Beach (IndiAtlantic, Satalite Beach) have high rise units but there are plenty of smaller buildings too. North of that is the air force base and then the south part of cocoa beach is single housing or small hotels, but of course the main part of Cocoa is huge hotel resorts, flashing lights, mini golf, and t-shirt shops.
If you want to go farther north, St. Augustine Beach is really nice.
Or further south, to Jupiter and Stuart, in northern Palm Beach County.
I’ll do the research on vacation rental demand…just looking for some suggestions to start with. Even quiet areas a couple miles away from the high rise areas would be OK?
I am looking for beach neighborhoods though…if I’m not mistaken that means one of the islands, right? There aren’t any beaches on the mainland are there?
My parents used to own a top floor condo in the Surf Club II in Palm Coast. While the three Surf Club buildings are 8 stories, everything around them is low, and the area is quiet. The oceanfront there is protected. There’s no glitz, no strips. I am not a fan of Florida in general, but that area is nicer than most I’ve seen.
I love Lauderdale by the Sea.
I also like Lauderdale by the Sea. I like Delray but that is pretty South and getting pretty pricey.
Palm Beach (i.e., Palm Beach proper, not West Palm) doesn’t have high-rises, but that’s seriously high-end pricey. The area just north of there, Juno Beach, Jupiter, Hobe Sound, up through Stuart is mostly single-family and small, low-rise condos or apartment buildings.