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Realty and Real Estate Information for the Ocean City Resort Area.

Are you thinking about making your home, your second home, or locating your business in Ocean City? Or, do you have an interest in real estate, buying or leasing a condo, home, or rental property in the Ocean City resort area: including North Ocean City, West Ocean City, Ocean Pines, Caine Woods, downtown, or Montego Bay? Or would you like to sell? Make sure to use an Ocean City REALTOR® with experience in the beach area. OCMD is truly a great place to live, work and play.

Ocean City’s past was built on the early fishing industry, and occasional tourists. Today, OC’s future is literally being built by the tourism and real estate industries. Older buildings, both commercial and residential are becoming the premier beach real estate addresses of the dot com age.

Finding what you need and want can be quite puzzling. Keep in mind that resort area real estate, for a multitude of reasons, is different than dealing with real estate in most other areas. With, literally, several hundred licensed real estate agents and sales people, along with dozens of real estate offices, Realtors®and brokers in the beach resort area – where do you begin?

Dynamic Ocean City Real Estate changes are taking place n a continual basis, you now, more than ever, need a professional real estate consultant with “the right” experience. Local real estate agents have expertise and many years of experience in this ever-changing “At The Beach” Real Estate market.

What’s here, who’s here?

Vacation Rental Agencies – Condos, Apartments, Houses

Condo Row – The “Gold Coast – the high-rise condominiums of North Ocean City.

Ocean City Real Estate Agents

Vacation Rentals Online at Vrbo.com

Ocean City Area Real Estate Companies – Coming soon.

Beware of Internet Vacation Rental Scams. Be diligent.

The following is an older article (January, 2014) that was originally posted by the Ocean City Police Department on the Town of Ocean City website. While the article may go back a few years, the content still applies today. Maybe even more so…

…the Ocean City Police Department is reminding citizens to be cautious while using the internet to search for vacation rentals. While popular websites can be a valuable tool in finding reasonable vacation rentals, consumers need to beware of scammers who are posing as property owners.

Some of the most consistent “red flags” associated with rental scams are demonstrated through poor grammar, spelling errors, poor capitalization and punctuation on any online material. In addition, if a vacation rental owner does not accept credit cards as a form of payment, they should almost always accept a personal check. Most scammers will only take cashier’s checks or ask money to be wired to a specific account. Lastly, you should be cautious of a property owner who is hesitant or unwilling to provide additional information in regards to the rental property, such as amenities or photographs.

As a renter you should take additional steps to assure the owner and rental properties are legitimate. There are several tips you should remember to avoid being a victim of an online rental scam. First, do not wire money to a suspected landlord and remember, regardless how convincing the tale, make sure the person renting the house to you actually owns it. Also, verify where you will go and who you will see to pick up the rental key. Make sure that the person and location is valid. Finally, if you have any suspicious concerns, follow your instinct. Even if you have to pay a fee, you are often safer dealing with a licensed real estate agent.

Source: Town of Ocean City website.

For safety’s sake, it may be best to stick with using a large, well-established booking website such Hotels.com or Expedia or Booking.com . Click Booking.com to see what they have to offer in hotel reservations and vacation rentals.

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