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Every year, you anticipate getting a tax refund. You dream about what you’ll do with the money. "A week in a coastal-resort vacation home near a white-sand beach would be nice," you say to yourself. Unfortunately, if you’re like the majority of us, once your refund comes, it gets spent here and there and, months later, you wonder what happened to it. Why not do something different this year, and perhaps make an investment? With a refund of only $700.00, you could enjoy that white sand beach you’ve dreamed of. In fact, you could even own a home by the beach, and enjoy perpetual resort living. "How can I own property at the beach for only $700.00," you wonder? "Don’t beach front condominiums go for $800,000.00 or more?" Yes, they do. But we’re not going to…

Article from AARP The Magazine
By Sarah Mahoney, July & August 2006

Summer living, all year long
REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE
Sonja and Hoyte Decker
Two years before they planned to retire, Sonja and Hoyte Decker settled on the Delaware coast as their retirement destination. Living in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near where Hoyte worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the two had been spending weekends and vacations on the sandy beaches of the Maryland and Delaware shores for years. But they liked friendly little Rehoboth Beach best of all. Just three hours from friends and their daughter in Washington, D.C., it was also reasonably close to Hoyte's two children from a previous marriage.
But finding their retirement house was challenging: Rehoboth… Read Full Post

Delaware's swimming beaches were the cleanest of any in the country last year, according to a report released Thursday by two national environmental organizations.
U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Natural Resources Defense Council found Delaware had the fewest beach closings for bacterial contamination in 2005. The results were included in a report titled "Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches."
Carl Grimm, owner of Bayberry Flowers on Rehoboth Avenue, gave Rehoboth Beach's water a passing grade.

"I always go in. It seems fine to me," said Grimm. "The only thing I hear about are the jellyfish."
Overall, NRDC tallied more than 20,000 closings or health warnings at ocean, bay or Great Lakes beaches nationwide, the… Read Full Post