This is a prime location, right on the beach with a fenced yard, and a short walk to the (somewhat limited) shops and restaurants of Rockaway Beach. Clearly, this is a property consisting of two very different generations. The old house, to which a nice addition has been appended on the beach side, consists of two bedrooms, a living room/kitchen, and (on a lower level) a bathroom and entry hall. The old part is dark and uninviting, artificially brightened in the online photographs. No one wanted to spend much time in that part of the house—except to play foosball, and we put two of the older children in those bedrooms. They’re wonderful kids and didn’t complain. The new part is wonderful: bright, open, well designed and appointed. That’s where we all gathered. If you rent this house, go around to the surf (west) side to enter it for the first time because entering at the lower level on the southeast corner of the old house is startling and off-putting. I hope the owners have plans to gut and refurbish the old section.
Would I recommend this property? Maybe. Would I rent it again? Probably not. Not at that price.