If you’re shopping for a luxury Myrtle Beach real estate, be careful: there are issues with the major real estate websites you might not know about! Rob and Linda found out the hard way with an amazing home in Grande Dunes Myrtle Beach. Their search continues, but you can learn from their story here!
What follows is the true story of the $203,000 mansion and what not to do while shopping for a home online in Myrtle beach.
So I’m working with a couple, I’m gonna name them, Rob and Linda, the names and faces have been changed to protect privacy. So we’re just gonna call ’em Rob and Linda, Rob and Linda text me, and they are super excited about this home that they found online. They went to a certain website that rhymes with pillow, but starts with a different letter.
Yeah. Them. So anyway, this house has listed on pillow for $203,000 and they send me some of the pictures of it. Here are the actual pictures that they sent me. I’d be excited too. I mean, look at those pictures. Oh my God. So I, anyway, there’s no street number associated with this. Why the website is trying to get Linda and Rob, but Linda to get in contact with them. We’ll get to that point later. So anyway, there’s no street address associated with this wild and amazing deal that they found online. So I start digging in turns out there’s only like 14, 16 houses that are actually on this street, which I have blanked out for privacy reasons for the person that owns the house. So I thought I was gonna have to drive down there, but finally, I was able to use some of my Google-Fu and figure out which home it was. Here are the actual pictures of that home. As you can see, they got reason to be excited. Do you think this is a $203,000 house guys?
No, no, no!!!
So at that point, what I do is I pop open my MLS and I start cross referencing to try to find the home for sale. And I’m thinking the whole time, there is no way that this house sells for $203,000. You know what I was right? Not only is there no way that that house would sell for $203,000, there’s no way that house would sell. It wasn’t even for sale. And it even been for sale for a year and a half at that point. And when it did sell, it sold for 1.7 million us dollars.
So I break the news to Linda that this house is not only not $203,000. It ain’t even for sale. And, uh, I caution her, Hey, maybe you should stay off a pillow. If you’re looking for a house, here’s why sites like pillow, quote unquote, what they do is they collect eyeballs. They collect traffic. They make money by selling your name to real estate companies. Now that’s all finding good. I mean, that’s their business model. You know, that’s, that’s what floats their boat. But if they don’t have something to put on their website, they don’t collect name. So they’re not necessarily, oh, how can we put this? They’re not necessarily really, really quick to get something off of their website. They’d rather have a picture up there for you to look at and then call them than nothing at all. So while they’ll add listings readily taking ’em off, sometimes it takes a while.
So when you’re looking at sites like pillow, you’re not necessarily gonna get the freshest most up to date information. So what can you do? There’s a site called mangohomes.kw.com. That’s personal site. You can use it. You don’t even have to register. If you don’t want to, to be honest with you, you can get a hold of all of the information straight out of my MLS, straight to your desk. It’s almost like you’re sitting right here with me. Uh, you can filter for houses, condos, townhouses, mobile homes, land, uh, pending sales just reduced. Um, oh my God. There’s a lot of stuff that you can do in there. Anyway, please. For the love of God, stay away from pillow. Go to mangohomes.kw.com. Use that in again. It’s totally anonymous. If you want to register, go ahead. You get some extra stuff by registering, but to be dead honest with you, it’s fine just as it is. And if you got any questions, tell me anyway, that’s the end of our story and there’s your moral stay away from pillow. Have a great day!!!
If you’re buying a home in Myrtle Beach, there are a number of things you should know BEFORE you make the leap. Today I want to talk about some of the wildlife. Some of it is harmless. Some of it is..
If you’re coming here from up north or the Midwest, or maybe even California, there are a lot of things that you need to be aware of before you get here. Here are three of those things. Hi, my name is Lance. I am a licensed realtor with mango homes, powered by Keller Williams, Myrtle beach. And today I wanna introduce you to two things that you’ll definitely see in your backyard at some point, which might freak you out. And one thing I hope you don’t see in your backyard, which really will freak you out.
Welcome to Jurassic Park!
You’re not wrong John Hammond, we’ll save that one for last though.
The first thing I’d like to talk about that you definitely will see in your backyard, and I hope it doesn’t freak you out is the green anole. The green anole is a small lizard. They get up to about six inches long and depending on what part of the beach you’re in, they could pretty much be everywhere in the trees than up in the gutters of your house. It’s it’s funny. I knew I was gonna make this video today and today is the first day that it got above 70 degrees. It’s it’s like spring is trying to spring early. It’s early February here. And, uh, sure enough. I saw one out in the gutters. I got a decent picture of it. As you can see, what might freak you out about at them is that they have the limited ability to camouflage like a chameleon even though they’re not a chameleon, they can change from green to brown, depending on what they’re standing on. And if they’re hunting for bugs or not. Another thing that might freak you out is they have a little red crest that pops out from underneath their chin. And sometimes you’ll see ’em sitting on your lawn furniture outside and they’ll be like bobbing their head up and down and popping out this red thing underneath their chin. What they’re doing is being very territorial and they’re trying to chase off other males. Please don’t let either of these things bug you though, these guys are awesome to have around your house. They are voracious predators of every kind of bug that you don’t want anywhere near your place. Uh, spiders, cockroaches, ants, anything that they can get ahold of, they will eat. And the beautiful thing is, is they are 100% absolutely harmless to human beings. They don’t bite.
The second thing I’d like to talk about that you’re definitely gonna see in your backyard. And I hope doesn’t freak you out. Is the blue tailed ski, the blue tailed ski is a ground dwelling lizard. Whereas the green anole is gonna live up on high is gonna be up in your roof and in the trees, uh, the blue tailed ski is gonna be down on the ground. He’s gonna be, you know, underneath the mulch in your garden, he’s gonna be underneath your flower pots down by the retaining wall. Uh, he hunts low for his food and he is just a voracious predator as the green anole. Now there’s two things that are freaky about him. One is his blue tail. Uh, it looks like a neon blue whip. It’s pretty weird that there is an animal that lives out there that has that color because it looks like a living fishing lure, it’s pretty weird. Number two is these guys actually like to try to get into your house? Uh, they are 100% absolutely harmless. And if one of them does get into your house, just understand that he’s trying to find a warm place or he might be trying to find some food. All you have to do to get him out is to get a large zip lock bag, open it up and put it next to him. Uh, he’ll see you and he’ll freak out and he’ll jump right in the bag and he’ll have absolutely no idea what’s going on. You just take him outside and put him back in the garden. He’ll be good.
And the last thing that I want to talk about that you probably won’t see in your backyard, but definitely would freak you out are yes, alligators. We have alligators here in Myrtle beach, the state newspaper estimates that there is a population of a hundred thousand alligators in South Carolina but to put that into perspective, the population of alligators in Florida is 1.5 million. So you know, it ain’t Florida.
If you own a home anywhere near water, you can expect that at some point, there have been alligators in that water. They actually move around at night, going from pond to pond and stream to stream. You just won’t see ’em you won’t see ’em, they’re too shy. They are better hiding from you than you are at seeing them. If you’re still concerned. Just understand that. Since 1915, there have been only 23 alligator attacks in the entirety of South Carolina. And none of them have happened in Myrtle beach. Why? You ain’t food. They don’t want anything to do with you. Uh, they eat turtles, they eat fish, they eat snakes. They eat other alligators. In fact, there’s a pretty famous clip, uh, not too far from where I live, where, uh, there is a monster alligator that ate another alligator. And the funny thing is when you look at the smaller alligator, and you feel bad for that alligator, that’s getting eaten. Just understand that the alligator that’s getting eaten is six feet long. Oh my God. One word of caution though. Just understand you can’t leave your pets outside at night. If you’re anywhere near water in the summertime, alligators are out at night, pets go, roaming. Pets can disappear. So, uh, keep your dog inside at night. Keep your cat inside at and you’ll have absolutely no problems with your neighbors. If you wanna call ’em that, if you like that, there’s a whole series of these videos that we’re gonna put in a playlist that’s listed right on this screen. And remember whether you’re a buying or selling, go mango!!
If you’re thinking of moving to Myrtle Beach and you want an idea of how much real estate runs, you’re in the right place! You’ll get a home tour of a GORGEOUS beach home as well as additional costs..
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,
If you’re thinking of moving to Myrtle Beach and you want an idea of what you can get for your money, you’re in the right place! You’ll get a home tour of a typical ‘average’ home here at the beach…
So you’re sitting in another part of the country right now. And you’re wondering, so what’s a house go for down there. What do you think? I’ll tell you what I think…
(What kind of an accent was that even supposed to be?!)
Hi. My name is Lance MacMillan with mango homes powered by Keller Williams, Myrtle beach. And today I’m gonna be showing you guys an average home, so you can answer that question. What’s an average home go for in Myrtle beach. So this house is actually a little bigger than normal. Our average median home price in the past 12 months. And I’m talking single family residents. I’m not lumping condos in with that. Our average for the past 12 months is $356,000. This one’s coming in at $388,000, but there’s a big reason why it is big. It is absolutely huge on the inside. It has a mother-in-law suite that you could legit play soccer in. It’s like, wow. During the tour, we’ll go over all the vital stats for the home, as well as the neighborhood and then afterwards, I’ll go over all the auxiliary costs like HOA and what that includes taxes. I know that’s a big thing for a lot of people.
So this home is in a place called clear pond. Clear pond is a plan development off of 5 0 1, which is the main highway in and out of Myrtle beach. It’s like the main north south road. If you will coming in and out of Myrtle beach, that makes it central to pretty much every place that you’d want to go. If you wanna learn more about the clear pond development, you can go to mango homes.com. The link for that’s gonna be in the description below. You can register for a free account there. And with that free account, you can look at schools. You can look at shopping, you can get drive times between clear pond and pretty much anywhere else. You want to go. Average square footage, sale information homes for sale. It’s literally tied to my MLS. So it’s own most like me being there, except that you could do it in the privacy of your own home. Go ahead and register. And with that, let’s go to clear pond.
(Home tour!) And as you can see, they are still building. There are two builders that are still building inside of clear pond. Clear pond is about half built out, which means that if you wanted to get a new home in there, you could. Now I promised that we would talk about the auxiliary costs for living here and the taxes and that kind of stuff. This is a natural gas community. So you will have a gas bill, but that’ll help you save under your electricity. Makes sense. There is an HOA. The HOA is $95 per month, and that includes two pools, uh, fitness center. There’s a playground. There’s a big clubhouse with the fireplace in there for you to host events at if you need to, you just sign up for it. Uh, there’s all the nature, sidewalks, ponds, walking paths, all the stuff that’s tip ago for a nice plan development.
As far as taxes taxes here at the beach, aren’t bad at all. If this home was assessed at $388,000, the selling price, the taxes would be $3,144 per year. That comes up to $262 per month. Now, if you’re over 65 years old, there is a $50,000 tax break that you get that comes off the assessed value of the house and drops your taxes annually. If you’re gonna rent this house out, the assessed rate is 6% versus 4%, which basically means your taxes would go up by 50%. I hope that helps you hope you have a good idea of what an average or at least in this case, little bit better than average home is here in Myrtle beach. If you got any questions, leave them in the comments below and remember whether you’re buying or selling go mango!!
Worried about flooding in Georgetown County SC? Myrtle Beach can and will flood. Depending on where you live, you might be at risk. We’ll show you step-by-step how to see…
So you’re looking at a new place in Georgetown county. And you’re wondering, is that in a flood zone, here’s how you find out.
Hi, my name is Lance MacMillan with Mango Homes, powered by Keller Williams Myrtle Beach. And today we’re gonna be learning how to use the Georgetown county flood zone tool. Now it’s gonna be a lot easier than it looks. It’s kind of off putting it first, but as long as you follow a long step by step you’ll have absolutely no problem. You’re gonna need a few things though. Now, the first thing you’re gonna need is some kind of computer and a phone, a tablet, a PC, apple, anything you have that you use will work. As long as you got something, uh, you’re gonna need that. And you’re also gonna need the links in the video description below with those two things you should have. Absolutely no problem. So before we start, I wanted to give you a quick overview of how everything thing works. There’s really just three steps in order to determine if you’re in the flood zone.
First step, pull the tool. There’s two tools, one for Horry county and one for Georgetown county, second step, and your address. Third step, get the code. Now the government made these tools. So it’s not as simple as you would think. They’re not gonna say, “Hey, you’re in the flood zone”. They’re gonna look at you and say, “Hey, AV 12”. And you’re gonna be like, “What the heck is AV 12?” I’ll teach you how to decipher the codes. There’s a document. You’ll find the link for it in the description below, again, like with everything else a and it’ll help you, but here’s the quickie breakdown on how it works. If it starts with an a or a V, it could be AO or a 12 or V E 16, if it starts with an a or a V doesn’t matter what follows you’re in the flood zone. If you’re not in a flood flood zone, the code it’s gonna give you is gonna be an X, either that, or it’s just not gonna give you a code at all.
If you’re in the 500 year flood plain, that means you’re on the edge of being in a flood zone. They’re gonna give you one of two codes. It’s either gonna say 0.2% or it’s gonna say X 500, depending on which county you’re looking at, they both mean the same thing. They both mean that, Hey, once in 500 years, you’re gonna get a flood. It’s probably not gonna happen in your lifetime, but it could. It’s as simple as that, that’s how those codes work. Stay tuned to the end of this video. If you guys still need help with the flood zone tools, I have a free tool you that I’ll tell you all about at the end. It’ll answer any other questions that you have. But for right now, let’s go over to my desktop and welcome to my desktop. As I mentioned, there are three steps to find out the flood zone in Georgetown county. The first one is to open the tool. Now I’ve got this link prepopulated in a Chrome incognito window. You don’t necessarily have to do that. Sometimes if the tool doesn’t pull, if you open it in an incognito window, it works out really well. So with that said, I am going to hit, enter and open the tool.
And there we go. This is Georgetown county. So I have an address that I’ve picked out. Uh, step two is to enter the address. The address that I’m gonna use is 4079 highway 17 business. And you’ll note, it pulls for me right there. I’m gonna click that and it’s gonna pull over to a property card for me. Now it says claw house restaurant, just so you know, this is the Dead Dog Saloon in the Murrell’s inlet marsh walk. This is one of my favorite places to eat in the entire universe. The whole place is just laid back. It’s an incredible restaurant. If you’ve never been down there to any of those restaurants, you’re totally missing out.
So right here, I’m gonna hit zoom to. And it’s gonna bring me all the way down to the ground level. I’m gonna cross this card out, because it’s kind of getting in my way. It’ll take a second for all this to render. There we go. So the next step is to read the code. So what I’m gonna have to do to get to the code, I’m gonna go to this layers list here. We’re gonna open that where it says GTGS, I’m gonna open that. Now we have all kinds of things that we can click on in here.
Almost too much stuff that you can click on. So what I’m gonna do to make it a little easier to read is first, I’m gonna get rid of these streets, the street names, because that’s really not necessary, really important. There is the dead dog saloon right there. So I’m gonna come over here just so you can see the property lines. I’m gonna pick lot lines with TMS and that’s gonna delineate the actual borders to the land plots down here. As you can see zoom in a little bit, it’ll take a second to reload while it’s doing that. I’m gonna come over here to my right and I’m gonna pull the flood map code right here, where it says FEMA, flood zones, current effective right there. I’m gonna click that. Now, if you ever pulled one in Horry county, you’ll notice that this looks totally different. Still telling you the same information. As we said before, if a code starts with an a or a V you’re in a flood zone, look at this it’s right inside of an, a code. As we know that is a flood zone. So the Dead Dog Saloon is inside of a flood zone, but Hey, zoom out for a second.
It’s right on the Murrell’s inlet Creek. That makes sense. It has to be in a flood zone. I’m gonna turn the flood zones back on just so I can bounce it around and show you guys. So again, a E 12 flood zone, V E 13, flood zone, AE 11 flood zone X 500. Here we are in the 500 year flood plain. The further we get from the ocean, the less the chances of flooding. And again, that makes total sense and I’m gonna run it over here and this whole area right here, let me get rid of the lot lines is an X code, no flooding here. Now that’s how you find the flood code for any property inside of Georgetown county. I’m gonna give you one bonus here that you might not know to look for.
I’m gonna click that off. I’m gonna click the flood zones off, off, right here, where it says FEMA, 2019 flood zones, preliminary guys, the flood zone in Georgetown county at some point in the near future is gonna change. I’m gonna turn this on and you’ll see that while the flood zones are roughly the same, they’ve changed around a little bit. This was a nice smooth line, but now you’ll see there’s a lot more nuance to it. And the 500 year flood plain extends further up the land before this whole area over here was outta the flood zone. At some point in the near future, it is going to be in the 500 year flood plain. Just wanted you to know that if you were looking at properties in Georgetown county and with that, you should be able to find anything you need in Georgetown county. So do you remember earlier in the video, when I talked about free stuff, here’s your free stuff. If you look in the video description, you’ll see a link to a free flood guide that we built. It has screenshots. It has all the links that you need. It has step by step instructions on how to determine if you’re in the flood zone or not. I hope that helps you if you need it. If not remember whether you’re buying or selling, Go Mango!
How To Find Your HORRY COUNTY SC FLOOD ZONE | Myrtle Beach Real Estate
So there’s a new place in Horry County that you’re looking at. You’re wondering is that in a flood zone? Let me show you how you can find out.
Hi, my name is Lance MacMillan with mango homes, powered by Keller Williams Myrtle Beach. And today we’re gonna be learning how to use the Horry county flood zone tool. Now you’re gonna find it’s a lot easier than it looks as long as you follow along step by step. And there’s only three steps you’re gonna have no problem at all. So you’re gonna need a couple things though. The first thing you’re gonna need is a computer. Now, when I say computer, I mean tablet, phone, PC, apple, anything will work as long as you’ve got something and you’re gonna need the links that I have in the video description below with those two things, you’ll have no problem. So before we start, I wanted to give you a quick overview of how everything worked. There’s really just three, three steps in order to determine if you’re in the flood zone.
First step, pull the tool. There’s two tools, one for Horry county and one for Georgetown county, second step, and your address. Third step, get the code. Now the government made these tools. So it’s not, not as simple as you would think. They’re not gonna say, “Hey, you’re in the flood zone”. They’re gonna look at you and say, “Hey, AV 12”. And you’re gonna be like, “What the heck is AV 12?” I’ll teach you how to decipher the codes. There’s a document. You’ll find the link for it in the description below, again, like with everything else and it’ll help you. But here’s the quickie breakdown on how it works. If it starts with an a or a V, it could be AO or a 12 or V E 16, if it starts with an a or a V doesn’t matter what follows you’re in a flood zone. If you’re not in a flood zone, the code it’s gonna give you is gonna be an X, either that, or it’s just not gonna give you a code at all.
If you’re in the 500 year flood plain, that means you’re on the edge of being in a flood zone. They’re gonna give you one of two codes. It’s either gonna say 0.2% or it’s gonna say X 500, depending on which county you’re looking at, they both mean the same thing. They both mean that, Hey, once in 500 years, you’re gonna get a flood. It’s probably not gonna happen in your lifetime, but it could. It’s as simple as that, that’s how those codes work. Stay tuned to the end of this video. If you guys still need help with the flood zone tools, I have a free guide for you that I’ll tell you all about at the end. It’ll answer any other questions that you have. But for right now, let’s go over to my desktop and welcome to my computer. So step one of figuring out if a home is in a flood zone is to open up the flood zone tool.
I’ve already got the Horry county tool populated up here. I’ve already got it plugged in, the links to all of this stuff is gonna be in the video description again. So I’ve already got it. I’m gonna hit enter Horry county populates. You’re gonna see some crazy colors come up here in just a second. Those are the actual flood zones that were enacted at the end of December, 2021. So just for clarity’s sake, and you’ll see why I’m doing this right here, where it says current FEMA flood zones. I want you to click that. That’s gonna make all that purple stuff go away so you can kind of see what we’re doing.
Step two is to enter the address and I’m gonna do that by hitting this magnifying glass icon, coming over here to address and entering it. Now I have a pre-selected address. This is 4495 baker street in little river. Don’t hit enter. It seems to work better if you hit the magnifying glass here to do your search. So that’s what I’m gonna do. And boom, 4495 baker street in little river. Anybody that lives up there understands this is better known as Snookys. Snookys has amazing food. It’s a really laid back place. It’s right on the little river. I’ll show you here in just a second. And, uh, I am choosing this mainly because I know for a fact, this is in a flood zone, so you can see what it looks like. So that way, if your house is in a flood zone or the one you’re looking at is in a flood zone, uh, you’ll know exactly beyond the shadow of a doubt. So right here, I’m going to click the address and that’s gonna zoom us in there’s Snookys. I’m gonna zoom out one click and you’ll see it’s literally right on the little river.
If a hurricane made landfall in North Carolina, all that water’s gonna come south down the river and you can expect that this river’s gonna get a little high. We can prove that by coming over here, let’s pull up the flood zones again, gonna go to the layers menu. You would expect something on the river downstream of North Carolina to be in a flood zone. I’m gonna click current FEMA flood zones. Again, it’s gonna pull up our colors and you’ll see that Snookys is curiously in an area with a bunch of purple dots. Well, Lance, what does that mean? Let me show you, we’re gonna come over to our dropdown and here we go. This tells us everything we need to know. Remember you’re either in a flood zone, you’re not in a flood zone or you’re on the, the edge of a flood zone. So V anything that starts with the V that’s going to be a coastal flood zone. Anything that starts with an a is going to be an inland flood zone.
If there’s no color like right out here, you’re not anywhere near a flood zone. This light purple here corresponds to our 500 year flood plain. You’re on the edge of a flood zone if you’re in there. So Snookys, as you can see is right in the middle of an inland flood zone, Snookys requires flood insurance. And again, it makes sense, right? You saw it for yourself. It’s on a river. That makes sense. Um, hopefully this helps you guys determine whether your home is in a flood zone, either that or the one you’re looking at buying, uh, you should know how to do this now. And if you don’t the that’s okay. Do you remember me telling you about the free stuff that I was gonna get you at the end of the video? Well, if you look in the description of the video, you’ll see a link to a free flood guide that we built for you inside of that you’ll have all the links, there’s screenshots step by step instructions, everything that you need to bring you through to determine safely if you’re in a flood zone or not. I hope that helps you and remember whether you’re buying or you’re selling Go Mango!!!
Flooding in Myrtle Beach doesn’t make Myrtle Beach a dangerous place necessarily, but you should know some homes ARE classified as being in a flood zone. Where ARE those homes? Watch our video…
So if you’ve been doing real estate in Myrtle Beach for like 10 seconds, you’re gonna get hit with one of these questions. “What parts of the beach flood?” Either that or “So where is it safe to buy?” I’ll answer both of those questions on the other side of the break.
Hi, my name is Lance MacMillan with Mango Homes, powered by Keller Williams Myrtle Beach. And today I’m gonna be answering the questions…you know, what areas of Myrtle Beach flood, where, where is it safe to move to? While I can’t legally answer those questions because it depends on whether the home you’re in is actually in a flood zone or not. What I can do for you is pull up my map on the computer and just give you a general overview of the area and where the waterways are. And then that’ll give you an idea. So with that said off to my computer and welcome again to my desktop. So again, this is just gonna be a real quick overview to give you an idea of the waterways around South Carolina and Myrtle Beach, and why flooding may or may not happen. So I’m gonna start at the satellite eye view right here. You’ll find Myrtle Beach here. So the reason I’m showing you this, and I wanna back out, so you can get a good view of the Caribbean here.
Everybody has seen the hurricane maps where, uh, you see the storm and you see the little arrows and it starts over here and it kind of north, sometimes it stops and gives The Bahamas hell, right? And then by the time it gets up here, it skirts along the Carolinas, or it hits the Carolinas. So let me zoom in. I wanna show you something when you zoom in, you’ll notice that if the storm track is headed north like this, or if it’s headed kind of north by Northeast, which, uh, sometimes it does, when it comes off of Miami and Daytona, Myrtle Beach kind of sits back. It’s almost like it’s dodging the blow. Uh, we do get hit by hurricanes, but, and I did the research for this. It’s actually really surprising how few direct hits we have in comparison to Charleston and Wilmington. Uh, it’s way less than you think it is. We do get indirect hits and we do get flooding, and I’m gonna show you why that matters. So let me jump to the next map because these hurricanes, if they hit, it’s either gonna auger into Charleston or it’s gonna side swipe us, and then it’s gonna hit Wilmington. We get direct hits again, but it’s not that often.
Why does that matter? Because water runs downhill. These are all of the rivers in South Carolina. And as you can tell, depending on where the storm hits, because this right up here, this is the mountains. This is the start of the Blue Ridge mountains up here. All these rivers run right downhill. They all run straight to the Atlantic ocean. And here we are right here. So you have the Waccamaw River running out of North Carolina, the Pee Dees, uh, the Lynches River, the Black River, all of these rivers run downhill and culminate here in Winyah Bay in Georgetown. And you can’t see it here, but the Intercoastal Waterway is also here. So in Myrtle Beach, let me go to the next one. You have basically two large strips of water and inland you’ll have a bunch of swamp. Okay, here we go.
So this is Horry County. I’m gonna pull up the actual flood map here in a minute, but this strip of water right here, this is the intercoastal waterway. Uh, this runs all the way from Miami up to Maine. And here is the Waccamaw River winding its way through. So as it runs downhill, you’ll notice the intercoastal goes right through downtown. The Waccamaw River runs through Conway and then cuts down past Socastee to meet up with the intercoastal waterway, both of those river start to accumulate. We’re running down past Pawleys Island and they dump into Winyah Bay.
So I hope that helps you get an overview of what goes on in Myrtle beach. Whenever the storms hit again, if you’re wondering whether a given place is in a flood zone or not, you have to actually plug the address in the flood map because you could be near the water and not necessarily be in a flood zone, or you could be what you would judge as further away from the water. And you might actually be in a flood zone. You don’t know. So always be safe and check. But again, this is just an overview. Hope this helps you guys. If you’re buying or selling, just remember Go Mango!
Knowing whether you need flood insurance in Myrtle Beach is really straightforward, it just depends on where your home is relative to the flood zones. This sums everything up for you in about 2 minutes
So you’re moving to the Myrtle Beach area and you’re wondering, do I need flood insurance? Let me show you how you find out.
Hi, my name is Lance MacMillan. I am a licensed realtor serving the Myrtle Beach area. I work with Mango Homes powered by Keller Williams Myrtle Beach. And today we’re gonna be talking about flood insurance. This topic is way more straightforward than most people think. And let me explain real quick. So if you’re buying a home and you’re in a flood zone, if your house is mortgaged, they’re gonna make you get flood insurance. They’re protecting their investment. That makes sense.
If you’re in a flood zone and you don’t have lien on your home, meaning that you’re a cash buyer, you don’t even have to get any insurance on your property, but trust me, you need to get insurance. Now, if you don’t know, if you’re in a flood zone, stay to the end of the video, I’ve got help for you there. Now, if you’re not in a flood zone, whether you’ve got a lien on your house or not, you don’t have to get flood insurance. Now, if it helps you feel better, go for it, but nobody’s gonna make you get it.
If you’re on the edge of a flood zone, that means you’re in the 500 year flood plain, where they expect there to be one flood every 500 years, you don’t have to get flood insurance, but again, if it makes you feel better, you can get it. In fact, you probably get a decent rate on it from the insurance company, because you’re not in the flood zone. It’s as simple as that. Again, if you don’t know whether you’re in a flood zone, stay tuned to the end of the video right after the break, I have help for you. And remember if you’re buying or you’re selling Go Mango!!
Worried about flooding in Myrtle Beach? We’ll show you step-by-step how to see if you’re in the new flood zone or not! (Go to YouTube for the links you need!)
THE FLOODMAPS ARE CHANGING The flood maps in Myrtle Beach are changing. Are you looking at buying a house and you’re not sure whether it’s in a flood zone? Did you already buy a house, and now you’re not sure whether you need flood insurance? How do you know? Let me show you. (music). Hi. My name is Lance MacMillan with Mango Homes, powered by Keller Williams Myrtle Beach. I am a licensed realtor serving the entire metro Myrtle Beach area. And today I’m going to be showing you how to use the flood zone tools for both Horry and Georgetown Counties, which if you don’t live here, that basically makes up all of Myrtle Beach.
WHY ARE FLOOD MAPS IMPORTANT? So why are flood zones important? Two reasons. One, while everybody likes to go to the beach, nobody likes the beach to come see them at their house. That’s the obvious one, that’s number one. Number two, flood insurance. If you are in a federally legislated flood zone, they can force you to buy flood insurance. And this could, depending on your budget, be a budget breaker. Now, clearly, this is important to you if you’re buying a home in Myrtle Beach, but also if you already live here and you already have a home here. If your home is financed, they have a direct say in whether you have to get flood insurance or not. And because the flood map is changing, there are some people out there right now who are going to have to get flood insurance and they don’t know it.
HOW THE TOOLS WORK, AN OVERVIEW So with that being said, what I want to do is give you guys the English version on how to use these tools. It’s a lot easier than it looks, and I just want to make that clear to you before you dig in. First thing you do is you plug a link into your browser and you hit enter. And again, all the links to all of this stuff, it’s right in the description of the video below. So, there’s one link for each county. Each county has its own tool. They both work pretty much the same, even though they look totally different. You’ll see, trust me. So, you pull up the link, you enter an address. Once the address is entered, it’ll center on the address for you. Once that address is up, you press a special button and it tells you one of three things. Either it’s in a flood zone, it’s not in a flood zone, or it’s on the edge of a flood zone. So what this means to you is this. You’ll see a code. Don’t worry about the codes. The codes are basically telling you what you need to know, right? I’ll translate that for you. And there’s a document that translates it all for you, too. Again, all this is going to be in the description of the video. So the codes will basically show you this. If it’s an A or a V, that means you’re in a flood zone. Don’t worry about everything that follows the A or the V. It’ll be like AE17, or V20, or something like that. Don’t worry about that. If it’s an A or a V, you’re in a flood zone. If you see an X, that X means you’re not in a flood zone. If you’re not in the flood zone, you don’t have to worry. You’re nowhere near close. If you see something like X500, or something like 0.2% is another one that they use that basically means the same thing, that means you’re in a 500-year flood zone. That means the chances of it flooding where you’re at are minimal. They’re not going to make you get flood insurance, again, because they’re banking on there being a flood once in 500 years. But if you wanted to get flood insurance, you could probably get a pretty good rate for it. They’re not going to make you get it if you’re in that middle of the line, close to 500-year flood zone kind of area. Now, if you want to learn how to do this yourself, because let’s face it, that’s why you’re here, right? What I’m going to do is I’m going to swap over to my desktop here in a second and the first thing I’m going to do is show you Horry County’s tools, and then I’m going to show you Georgetown County’s tools. Now, the tools are amazing. They show you everything in the exact detail that you want, but they’re not necessarily user-friendly. You figure software is written by engineers, and they’re doing this for people that are vested in weather and geography. So, yeah, it’s like that.
STAY TUNED: FREE GUIDE! Make sure to stay tuned till the end of the video, because I’ve got a freebie for you guys at the end that I’m going to tell you about and it’s going to help you understand all of this even more. So with that said, over to my desktop.
HORRY COUNTY MAP Hey, thank you so much for holding. I am back. So we’ve moved, as I said, over to my desktop. I’ve got both of our flood maps pulled up here. Now, the first thing I’m going to do is concentrate on Horry County. Horry County is the county that’s right near the North Carolina border. It encompasses 75% of what you would call Myrtle Beach, basically, if you’re not from here. South of that is Georgetown County, and I will do that next. So this is what you’re going to see when the tool populates. This link up here, right up here, I’m going to have that in the description to the video so you can just click on it. But this is what it’s going to look like. Now, in order for me to illustrate something later on, what I’m going to ask you to do, and what I’m going to do, is over here, I’m going to click these three things off. Actually, no. Here we go. This is what we’re going to click off. Now you’ll see all the shiny, happy colors go away. First thing we do… And they’ll come back later. Again, this is for illustrative purposes. I want to teach you guys something. First thing we’re going to do, pull up our address. Whatever address it is that you have in mind. This could be the property where you live and you’re wondering if you’re going to need flood insurance. This could be the property that you’re looking to buy. Regardless, this is how you do it. You’re going to click on it. You’re going to come over here to where it says address and you’re going to click on that. Now me personally, I have an address already picked out. It’s near a flood zone, but it’s not necessarily in a flood zone. So, I can show you what all of that stuff looks like on the map. Now, this is a park downtown called Chapin Park, and it’s at 400 14th Avenue North. Now, don’t hit enter. Once you’ve got that typed in, don’t hit enter. Hit this little magnifying glass up here. It seems to work a little better if you do that, so I’m going to do that. And it’s going to populate a whole bunch of little flags down here. Here’s one right there. Here’s a couple right here. Now, the one that I want is right here, so I’m going to click that. The tool zooms in for me, and what do you know? There’s Chapin Park. So, you’ll see some elevation information over here. Don’t let that confuse you. What I’m going to do is I’m going to come up here to the layers tab again, if you see that in the upper left-hand corner. I’m going to tap that. And what you’re seeing here, the elevation information, I’m just going to click that off. Now we don’t have to worry about that confusing us. So, where is the flood map in relation to Chapin Park? Again, like I said before, there’s two flood maps. There’s the current flood map written right here in Horry County. That’s Current FEMA Flood Zones. And then there’s Regulated FEMA Flood Zones. That’s going to be the new flood map. And as of December 9th, the recording of this video, that is not necessarily active yet, but it’s pending. It’s going to be any day now. So, if I want to see the current flood map, here’s what I do. Click on that, give it a second, and it populates. What do those colors mean? If I come to my dropdown right here, you’re going to see the color codes. So again, V, that’s coastal flood zone. A is an inland flood zone. You can see right here, what they’re saying is that in the event of a horrible storm, you’re going to see the water roughly encroach right there. That’s the old data. It has a chance to get up about this high. If you’re looking, that’s right where Withers Drive is. Now, if you had a house in Chapin Park, which, you know, who has a house in a park? But if you did, you could say to yourself, “All right, so it’s going to get about a block away in the worst of cases, and it’s not going to get any further.” So you’re good there. I’m going to come back over here. I’m going to click out of Current FEMA Flood Zones. That’s the current map. And I’m going to pull up the new one that hasn’t been released yet. Again, that’s Regulated FEMA Flood Zones. You’re going to see where this is different. Takes a second to populate. And there it is. So what do all these colors mean? I’m going to go here to my dropdown, and here’s what we’re looking at. Dark purple. Dark purple. That’s the ocean coming up to say hello. A means inland flood zone. They’re saying in a worse case, it’ll intrude up into here. Now, see this light purple right here? That light purple corresponds to 0.2% annual chance flood hazard. And what that means, if you go back and look at the FEMA information, that means that one in 500 years, basically, there’ll be a flood that reaches that far. So if you’re in that area, they won’t necessarily force you legally to get flood insurance, but you may want to consider it. I mean, yes, it’s a one in 500 year, but, you know, it could happen. Again, if you had a house in Chapin Park, looks like you’d be safe in this case. Going to go back here, click that off, it goes away.
GEORGETOWN COUNTY MAP Now let’s move over to Georgetown. Georgetown, I’m going to click on this right here. Again, the link to Georgetown flood map is going to be in the description of this video. This works exactly the same, but it honestly, it looks totally different. So, Georgetown County. I’m going to zoom out a little bit. This is Horry County up here. Georgetown is south of there. So, I have an address pulled in Georgetown County as well that’s in an interesting spot. It’s 10880 Ocean Highway. So when I start typing, it automatically knows, “Hey, do you mean 10880 Ocean Highway?” So I’m going to click that. What that’s going to do is that’s going to highlight my address. Now, a property card comes up. It says zoom to. I’m going to zoom to that. Now I can get down to the street level on this bad boy. Now that I’m there, this property card, it kind of gets in the way, so I’m going to cross that out. Because, see the little blue dot? I already know where our property is. Now, again, I picked this. This is an interesting property. Moving this around. Okay, here we go. We have Atlantic Ocean. We have Pawleys Island itself. We have the Pawleys Island Creek. We got a bunch of marshland here. And then we have our property. And if I didn’t mention it, our property in question is the Pawleys Island Hammock Shops. And as an aside, if you’ve never been there, it is so cool. It’s a really nice place to spend an afternoon and walk around and go shopping. All right. So, what do we do with this to pull up the flood maps? Upper right-hand corner, I’m going to pull open the layers manual. Layers menu, sorry. All right. Right here where it says GTGIS, you’re going to want to click that. You get a huge dropdown with all kinds of stuff in it. So in order to make it a little less confusing, I’m going to go here where it says streets, because honestly I don’t really care about the streets. I just care about the property. And I’m going to get rid of the streets, and you’ll see where that drops all off the menu. Now, I want to highlight the actual plot right here. So, I could honestly, I could pick any of these, but just for giggles, I’m going to pick lot lines with TMS number. Takes a second and you see all of the legal boundaries for all of these plots come up. So I’m going to zoom in a little bit. This is our property right here. The boundaries and these corners, this is an odd-shaped lot. But again, this is a big retail subdivision right off of 17, so, it is what it is. Now in order to pull the flood map itself, I’m going to roll all the way down here. You’re going to see some really confusing stuff. And this is going to change. So again, as of December 9th, the filming of this video, 2021, here is where you will find the current flood map, FEMA Flood Zone Current Effective, and the proposed flood map that’s going to take effect basically any day. And strangely enough, it’s FEMA 2019 Flood Zones, not FEMA 2021 Flood Zones. It looks like they’re in the middle of changing everything over, they just haven’t done it yet. So, your information could be here, but right now it’s not. It’s right here. So again, just like before, let’s look at the current flood zone as of this date. I’m going to click here, and it’s going to take a second and boom, look what pulls up. Again, if it has an A in it or a V, that is a flood area. A, flood area. X500. What the heck is X500? It sounds like something they would sell on a late night to clean something, right? X500, that is your 500-year flood zone. It corresponds with what you saw on the Horry County map where it said 0.2% chance of flooding. So, if you happen to have a house in this area where this purple stripe is right here, going all the way down here. Like for instance, if you lived there, that is in a 500-year flood zone. You’re not mandatory to get flood insurance as it stands right now. But you know what, you might need it. Who knows? It’s up to you. Right here, we have a different color. That X. That X means that is not in danger of flooding under any circumstances. Again, as of this point. Now, the new information, I’m going to come back over here. I’m going to unclick that and make that information go away. The new flood zone, which hasn’t legally hit yet, but it’s going to be any day. Right here, FEMA Flood Zones Preliminary 2019. Again, at some point it’s going to be 2021, but it just, not right now. FEMA 2019 Flood Zones Preliminary, I’m going to click that. And it’s going to take a second. You’re going to see different information below. So, V. What they’re saying is, “Hey, all of this salt marsh is prone to flood up into this area.” You’ll notice where that’s starting to encroach a little closer to the main part of our property here. And we have an A. That means that that’s an inland potential flood zone, and that’s on the backside of our property here. Couple buildings here that are actually in the flood zone. So, you’ll notice that the 0.2% chance flood zone, the 500-year flood zone, is now taking over this entire property, and it’s extending its way across the street. And just for illustration, I’m going to zoom out a little bit. I’m going to see how far across the street that goes. It’ll take a second to populate. And that’s really confusing. So, sorry about that. Let me zoom in. Okay, now you can see the boundaries. See how this boundary comes up? What it’s saying is, they’ve revised the information. The flood zone ends here, but one in 500 years, you may see water come across Highway 17. And honestly, if there was flooding coming from the ocean going across Highway 17, that really would be a one in 500-year event, because, oh my God, that would be rough. Anyway, that is how you determine the flood zone in Georgetown County.
FOR YOU: FREE GUIDE!!! And that’s how you do that. I hope that helped you guys. If you want more, we have a guide that we built for you, a 17-page guide. That’s the freebie that I mentioned earlier. There’s a link in the description. If you click the link, it’ll automatically get sent to you. It’s 17 pages complete with screenshots, all the links that you need, everything that you would want to possibly learn about in order to safely determine whether your property’s in a flood zone or whether it’s not in a flood zone. I hope all this helps you guys. Thank you very much for sticking around till the end of the video. Until next time, please like and subscribe to the channel. I’ll talk to you later. (music).
