I'm graduating in May and getting looking for a house in kill devil hills or kitty hawk for the next year. The best deal i've found so far is a duplex in KDH with all utilities included. The owner lives in the upper half when he vacations at the beach (one weekend a month)

The problem is that he seems VERY anal and must have had problems with bad tenants before. HE SAYS THAT ANY OVERNIGHT GUESTS MUST BE APPROVED BY HIM!! my question is: is this legal??

4/6/2006 12:26:07 PM

theoretically yes.

Its the same idea univeristy housing uses as well. He just wants to prevent you from having an outrageous party I'm guessing.

4/6/2006 12:31:39 PM

rent out here sucks. I can't find a place that is half decent, and we are trying to hire a few students for the summer at work and they can't find something that is suitable either.


my parents just put a house on the rental market in colington, they don't want me in it.

4/6/2006 12:36:06 PM

this place is 925 including utilities, def one of the best i've found

^how much is your parents house?

4/6/2006 12:37:14 PM

I think 1200. it is a 3bed, 2 bath, we just remodelled the kitchen and bathrooms, new carpet in the living room, hall, and 1 bedroom. only utility included would be water though.

4/6/2006 12:48:14 PM

I've been out here for the last year and I've been living in a ROOM...its absolutely driven me crazy bonkers.

I just found a place at Sandpiper Cay (in Kitty Hawk) and I'll be moving in this weekend (I CAN'T WAIT)...I talked the guy down to 825 but it doesn't include uts. Basically you are either going to have to find a roomie (so you can afford a house) or if you value your privacy you'll just have to deal with paying outrageous amounts of money to live on your own. My place, plus uts, will be more then half my paycheck. You can try the 1/2 house deal, but if you have bad feelings about your landlord, I would strongly suggest against it...Nothing is more miserable then coming home and having to deal with a difficult landlord.

Also, on the roomie thing...its VERY hard to find mature roomies out here that aren't dopers or alcoholics. Now if you don't mind that sort of thing, then you'll have a ton of options, but I've only found 2 potential roomies over the last year (TWO!), and both of them backed out on me b/c they couldn't afford to pay half the rent.

On a different note, looks like you'll have myself and stowaway out here if you ever need anything.

4/6/2006 1:08:49 PM

1250 actually

Quote :

"its VERY hard to find mature roomies out here that aren't dopers or alcoholics."

VERY true

[Edited on April 6, 2006 at 1:22 PM. Reason : ]

4/6/2006 1:21:29 PM

^ dude, why have we not met yet?

4/6/2006 1:32:45 PM

I moved into a house with that provision on my lease. I live with the landlord's son and he basically said that was put in there to prevent me from having a girlfriend or a friend shack up in the house for a long period of time. I've had several overnight guests, and it's no big deal. First thing that went through my head when reading the lease was the same as yours....this person is anal.

In reality, it's just someone who knows their landlord tenant law and is trying to prevent certain things from happening (or they could really be anal).

4/6/2006 1:38:17 PM

work?

4/6/2006 1:39:53 PM

and there are good landlords and bad landlords....its a chance you have to take and sometimes you won't know until after you've been there for a while. thankfully my current lease was month-to-month (however I STILL ended up being here for a year)...it gave me a lot of flexibility, HAD I found a place earlier in the year. Unfortunately most places out here are not month-to-month...good luck

^lol that excuse works for me

4/6/2006 1:46:59 PM

are you on the rag?

4/6/2006 2:04:47 PM

i'm going to be living with my boyfriend, so he will be paying half.

i looked in to Sandpiper Cay too but nothing is available right now, let me know if you hear of any good deals!

4/6/2006 5:27:14 PM

I sure will what exactly are you looking for?

4/6/2006 7:49:11 PM

2 bedroom at least, 1 bath
under 1000

thats pretty much it

4/6/2006 10:33:52 PM

I have a 2BR 1.5 bath townhouse between the highways in KDH. I will have to see if the current tenant is staying after his lease runs out. The rent would be $1000 a month, as that is what the current tenant is paying.

4/6/2006 10:44:08 PM

over the years, i've probably been to 30 parties at Sandpiper Cay

4/7/2006 2:40:28 AM

don't fuck with Kitty Dunes realty

they are a rip off and full of shit

4/7/2006 8:05:04 AM

I've been out here since June, and it is a bitch to find affordable places to live. I'm the rental manager for my company's KDH & North Nags Head rental division. If you want, I'll see what my long term rental people have.







[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 9:19 AM. Reason : .]

4/7/2006 9:14:12 AM

yeah that would be great! thanks

4/7/2006 11:32:04 AM

just curious, but what do you guys that live out there do for work?

4/7/2006 1:04:10 PM

p shores

^wait tables, and clean pools$$$$

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 1:07 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 1:07 PM. Reason : ^]

4/7/2006 1:06:26 PM

waiting tables is where the money's at in the summer

in the off season, i make ZERO money

4/7/2006 2:36:17 PM

family beach portraits. crazy hours in the summer, crazy amounts of paperwork in the fall and early winter. Late January through mid April pretty much are dead.

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 2:57 PM. Reason : must make 12 months worth of $$$ in 3-4 months.]

4/7/2006 2:57:27 PM

secret squirrel stuff

4/7/2006 3:00:00 PM

Ha, if you want cheap go no further than Pelican Shores. Oceanfront and about 500 college kids there each night, its a freaking dump. I make a conscious effort to go there every july 4th.

I'm working at a golf course and i think i got a waiter job lined up at the restraunt I bussed for last year.

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 3:19 PM. Reason : uy]

4/7/2006 3:17:56 PM

^^hahahah, wtf?

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 3:18 PM. Reason : ^^]

4/7/2006 3:18:07 PM

do not, DO NOT live at pelican shores. it IS a dump! its fun to go there for the night or something, and yeah the 12 keg 4th of july party is great (except the undercover ALE)
but do you really want to spend the summer in a hut with 12 other people in 98 degree humidity with no AC?
dont do it.

just bring a tent and camp out or something, cost of living/renting down here is ridiculous.

4/7/2006 4:43:45 PM

^^hehe thats right

4/7/2006 6:06:19 PM

my granny and papa used to live in collington harbor...I loved their place! it was on sir chandler drive, or whatever it is called

4/7/2006 6:39:25 PM

sir chandler, yeah.....there's some dumbass kids that live on that street

4/7/2006 7:07:54 PM

^^^^ it's not a summer thing, so i cant exactly just camp out. I am looking for somewhere to live for at least a year, possibly more. i'm graduating and plan on living there b/c thats where i'm from and all my family is

4/8/2006 1:15:08 PM

they used to have a beautiful yard, rose bushes everywhere

4/8/2006 5:22:08 PM

well good freaking luck not being broke while living there

4/8/2006 7:42:01 PM

it will be the same amount i'm paying now to live in raleigh...ill be fine

and if not, ill just move back in with the parentals for a while

[Edited on April 8, 2006 at 8:40 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2006 8:39:57 PM

UPDATE! we decided that we didn't want to deal with that crazy landlord and this weekend I looked at a 3 bed, 2 bath house in kitty hawk with a HUGE beatiful yard right on a canal that goes to the sound

1000. including utilities
there is one person ahead of me, but hopefully they won't want it!

[Edited on April 17, 2006 at 1:31 PM. Reason : a]

4/17/2006 1:30:58 PM

whoa, where is it? i wanna drive by and see what kind of crack heads must live next door if it is that cheap.

4/17/2006 2:15:32 PM

haha it's down midgett road off of kitty hawk road...where they are building the new fire station

and there is so much land it doesnt seem like we have neighbors....the one on the left is my boyfriends cousin and the one on the right is a cute little old lady...

marsh in front of the house and sound in the back

i dont know why its so cheap
nothing looked wrong with it when we walked through

4/17/2006 4:29:36 PM

i like how all the outer banks kids are giving each other info here.

4/17/2006 4:46:15 PM

^^ Ha, my boss and her family live right by that fire station construction!

I have a 2BR BA for $975 that will be available May 1st in Oyster Point if that other one falls through. That one just came up today

[Edited on April 17, 2006 at 5:01 PM. Reason : .]

4/17/2006 4:58:20 PM

mosquito heaven, that's why it's cheap

4/17/2006 6:02:12 PM

^true...i'm pretty used to the mosquito problem...its going to be bad for a few months but i think i can deal

^^that sounds SO familiar but i cant picture where oyster point is

4/17/2006 7:43:49 PM

^Its right off 1st st. in KDH. The water bill will be inclu. in the rent as well.


^^the six legged friendlies are fun all over the islands

[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 1:58 PM. Reason : ^]

4/18/2006 1:58:18 PM

UPDATE

im renting in kitty hawk off of kitty hawk road on a canal

kind of small, 2 bedrooms. one is an office and the other we can only fit a queen bed and 2 end tables. nice HUGE deck

big kitchen. the living room has floor to ceiling windows covering one wall overloooking the deck and canal

absolutely love it

5/11/2006 12:11:54 AM

small cute houses are always the best first houses

many moms and shit will tell you that

5/11/2006 1:22:53 AM

sounds nice, now just watch out in the fall for those strong west winds

5/11/2006 7:45:56 AM

How far from the new fire station will you be on KHrd?

5/11/2006 12:48:36 PM

not very far at all...right before the woods road. its across from rpc contracting

5/26/2006 4:28:51 PM