Location, location, location! My wife says she has spent more time with a purse before buying it than she did with our condo. Friends of ours owned here for years and begged us to visit but we never seemed to find time to come. What a mistake!
When we finally found our way to visit them for a weekend, we fell in love with Calypso, made an offer on one for sale and suddenly we own a home at the beach. The fact that you are right on such a beautiful beach and can walk to so many places to eat, shop, drink is so wonderful.
First thing we did was rip out everything, and donate all the furniture to a veterans group and turned the place into our home at the beach. When we come as a family the kids don't want to eat out, they want all the favorite homemade meals they miss so we have everything needed to prepare almost anything.