r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • Jun 06 '25

Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks /r/all

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

66.1k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

8.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

202

u/sluttynuttybuddy69 Jun 06 '25

...is... is that a "For Rent" sign?

74

u/chunkoco Jun 06 '25

$3,500 no utilities

3

u/Vitruvian_Link Jun 06 '25

Aquaman's got cash

1

u/MarkIII-VR Jun 07 '25

Sea water is included!

0

u/Silent_plans Jun 06 '25

They include utilities, but the rent is per week. And yeah, the rent is 3-5k/week in the summer down there.

46

u/MichiganMitch108 Jun 06 '25

It is

3

u/Riokaii Jun 06 '25

"while supplies last!"

5

u/Row_8_Plot_30 Jun 06 '25

The sign is on that house in the video too.

4

u/stop_hittingyourself Jun 06 '25

It’s a load bearing sign, they couldn’t remove it.

4

u/osubmw1 Jun 06 '25

To be fair, you can see the sign on the video before the house was totally fucked. Back when it was just pretty fucked.

10

u/BUTGUYSDOYOUREMEMBER Jun 06 '25

Nah just the property management company's sign. Most of these houses in rodanthe have long been deemed uninhabitable 

3

u/willyv4pres Jun 06 '25

Ocean front and great breeze in living room. What's not to love?

3

u/aqua_profunda Jun 06 '25

it’s old. if you notice, the stairs to the home have been removed and likely have been for quite some time. I was down there last August and it was this way. why they don’t remove the rent sign when they do this is beyond me, but they also let people leave all their belongings in there too, so…

2

u/NeedsMoreTuba Jun 06 '25

I think you're allowed to use them until the septic system becomes compromised. That would mean you can't rent this one anymore, but if it had a functional toilet then I still wouldn't be able to afford what might be my last vacation ever...

2

u/ElevatedAssCancer Jun 07 '25

lol so the beach houses in the outer banks are almost all short-term rentals. Most have a sign for their property manager permanently affixed to the house. They’re not actually trying to rent this out, they’re just not going through the effort of removing the sign

1

u/Unusual-External4230 Jun 07 '25

Exactly what I was about to say, before airbnb/vrbo a lot of these were STRs managed by local companies and they all had signs like that. It's likely it was a permanent fixture the owner put up and just never removed when they abandoned it.

2

u/ElevatedAssCancer Jun 08 '25

Yes, exactly! And often the rental company will actually manage an AirBnB/VRBO listing for the property, not the actual home owner.

(Source: I have family with a house in OBX that they rent out for part of the year)

4

u/____unloved____ Jun 06 '25

With a huge hole in the side, I hope not

2

u/KnownMonk Jun 06 '25

Oh, that's just the air conditioning.

1

u/JMooooooooo Jun 06 '25

The sign was there first

1

u/_RMR Jun 07 '25

Incredible (ha)

1

u/Janezey Jun 08 '25

It looks like they just left the "For Rent" sign there. Here's the same house, I think, in (much) better shape a few years ago:

https://property-images.realgeeks.com/ncouterbanks/f2b1f1314e0b9c877aeba1746e1f0992.jpg