Not necessarily true. The term “deeded beach access” is used very loosely! In some instances it means that a neighborhood has an easement of a path to the beach, but only to get to the high tide line....then you’re on your own with no public beach available unless you walk down the wet sand to a public beach area, sometimes not very close by.
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Mine is the literal definition. I'm aware of unscrupulous realtors and rental owners that stretch that definition.
Anyone know how things are regarding beach/private beach issues in the Summer’s Edge Community in Seagrove? That’s were we are looking to rent a house. Rentals are expensive and I hate to rent a house that supposedly has private beach access and it only be a “path” to the beach
Summer’s Edge on Ryan St. Most likely only a path or boardwalk off Eastern Lake Rd to get on beach.
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Summer's Edge has a path to Ramsgate Public Access. And it's a short walk east to Eastern Lake Outfall.
I’ve seen legal easement documents that define it the way I described.
It that usually a crowded area? We are supposed to be going in July.
So you take the “path” to the beach and then is it public area
I can't say for sure how crowded it is. Also I'm not sure about the width of public beach and/or the properties to the east and west and whether you can spread out. It might be a good idea for me to survey our accesses during season and make notes on our access pages about surrounding properties.
Ramsgate Access
As a general rule, July is going to be crowded at most accesses - especially between 10 am and 4 pm.
Hi! Your concerns are valid and you should ask the owner or management company. We owned a home in a neighborhood with access but no real place to sit once we got down there. We then owned in a neighborhood with access but if you didn’t rent chairs there was no real place to sit without a pretty good walk (we really didn’t care because our kids are older). I think you could ask your owner and hope they would be honest about it. Assurance of access and a place to sit is to rent in one of the resort communities like Rosemary, Watercolor, etc. BUT, if the house you are looking at is close to a public beach access I believe you can coordinate beach chair and umbrella set ups. This will give you a place in the sand to park without lugging it all with you. Hope this helps. Enjoy your time!
Now that the county has expanded their control over our beaches and is officially in the chair rental business, perhaps there should be a standard disclosure required to be issued and acknowledged by renters for every rental property regarding Beach Access and rental availability along with rules and conditions.