So you’ve worked hard, your whole lives, and you wanna find a nice place to retire near the beach. We’ve worked hard, our whole lives, and we wanna find a nice place to retire near the beach. Congratulations, Linda, I think you deserve it. Do you know a nice place? Oh yeah. I know a really nice place. I’ll show it to you. It’s in one of favorite neighborhoods, that’s down near the water. It’s called…
Hey, thanks for stopping in. My name is Lance MacMillan. I am a licensed realtor with mango homes powered by Keller Williams, Myrtle beach. And today I’m gonna be showing you guys a really nice home in the Surfside beach area of Myrtle beach.
If you’re not from here, Surfside beach is about two miles worth of ocean and the homes they’re in between highway 17 BI business and the Atlantic. It is south of downtown Myrtle beach, and it is north of garden city. Right now the average home price in Surfside beach is $662,000. And that comes down to $342 per square foot. That is higher than the average in Horry county. But you’ll see why you’ll definitely see why the schools in the area perform anywhere from 83 to 96 percentile in the state ranking. And that’s per the website, precisely.com. There’s all kinds of shopping restaurants in the area to my favorite restaurants, river city cafe, and, uh, crabby mikes. My son would be remiss if I didn’t mention crabby mics, uh, all that and more, but you know what? That’s not why I like the area.
I like the area because of the homes. The homes are amazing. The first thing that’ll stick out. When you see these homes down, there are the colors, the colors are absolutely amazing. The color scheme that you’ll see down there is taken straight from the Caribbean. And if you’ve ever been to Bermuda Bahamas, you’ll definitely recognize it. Uh, you’ll see a bunch of brilliant blues and coral red, uh, chartreuse yellow, uh, everything in between all kinds of really bright, vivid colors. And it really makes the neighborhood pop. The main style of the home that you’ll see down there is called the raised beach home. And basically in English, what that means is they take the home and they put it up on giant stanchions, basically huge stilts, and they keep it away from this surface of the ground in case there’s a storm surge.
This is also convenient because it gives you a place to park your car. It gives you a place to put your golf cart because most people have golf carts down there and they like to take it back and forth the shopping to the beach. And yes, you can basically perform 80% of your life down there in Surfside, uh, just by driving a golf cart. It’s pretty nice. So the home we’re gonna be looking at today is one block off the ocean down in the heart of Surfside. It’s 1,869 square feet, four bedroom, four bath raise beach home, and it sells for $875,000. And it’s worth it Coming up the stairs and into the front door. You can see the inside of this place is absolutely amazing. As far as the color. I absolutely love this Caribbean beach theme that this house has going on here. The first floor is an open floor plan featuring the dining room, adjoin, a breakfast bar, and a really cool looking kitchen. I’m giving you a, uh, wide open view of the living room and the dining room, as well as the open kitchen that’s here. I love the colors in the kitchen. That is so cool.
This is the downstairs bedroom, and I’m gonna try to include a couple shots of the adjoining bathroom. These stairs lead up to the second floor. And on the second floor, you will find three E bedrooms, including the master bedroom. Everyone in these bedrooms has its own bathroom. That’s associated with it, its own full bath. So I think that’s really cool. Here is the master bedroom. The master bedroom goes out. It has its own patio on the second floor. So you can basically go out there and have coffee in the morning and enjoy the sunrise, which is absolutely awesome. The colors and decor in this place are just amazing.
As far as associated costs with this property, the HOA is 3 45 per month, and it includes a pool pool service, trash service, pest control, cable TV, and last but not least, you can walk across the street literally and put your feet in the Atlantic ocean. This property definitely will require flood insurance. Don’t have any quotes on that. Get with your insurance person to get rates. As far as taxes, taxes in Horry county are very likely better than where you’re coming from. If you’re looking at this video from some other part of the country, homes here are taxed differently, depending on whether they’re owner occupied or whether they’re rented out as an investment property. In the case on this home, if you’re living in it, taxes are $3,724 per year. If you’re gonna rent it out, taxes are $11,775 per year, but that is also laid by the fact that this property brings in around $40,000 per year in rental income.
If you’re gonna rent it out as always with any home in Horry county, if you’re over 65 years old, there is a $50,000 rebate that they give you on the assessed value of the home, which will help bring the taxes down. That’s it? I hope that gives you a really good idea of what a nice place goes for down here at the beach. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and I’ll be happy to answer them until then whether you’re buying or selling go mango. So if that was a little bit out of your range, there is another home that we’ve done in this same series of videos. That’s close to average. If you wanna look at that, it’s right on this screen,