New Luxury Listings - Pawleys Island to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Here are a few of the new luxury homes recently listed along the Grand Strand....

                                              52 Destin Court - River Gate - Pawleys Island, SC

 $1,195,000.00

http://mls.cleartours.com/10505

Custom home in a secluded river front neighborhood with day boat slip and planned marina.  Over 9200 square feet with elevator, chef's kitchen with center island, professional appliances, antique stained glass, screened porch, formal dining room, wood floors, master suite w/spa shower and too many extras to mention....priced to sell! 

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Ocean Park - DeBordieu

$1,849,000

Located in the desirable neighborhood of Ocean Park, this artsy, whimsical, ocean view home is literally just steps to DeBordieu's north beach and offers impressive ocean and marsh views. With 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths and 180 degrees of sunrise to sunset viewing, it's popular on the DeBordieu Rental Program. Other features include: hardwood floors, 3 finished floors/levels with multiple porches, standing seam metal roof, stereo sound system, structured wiring for automation, intercom system to all floors, 2 security cameras, 4-zone geo-thermal heat pumps, elevator ready, water purification system with filtered water at key locations, premium plumbing fixtures, 8’ interior doors, Weathershield windows with high impact laminated, low E glass, two 80 gallon water heaters, Ceramic tile in all baths & showers, wet bar, skylights, laundry room w/ built-in ironing board, media room w/ surround sound and a spacious garage.

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Beach Drive

Briarcliffe - Myrtle Beach SC

                                                                         $1,900,000

Auction October 29, 2011

Call Us For More Details!

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29 Eastland Way

http://vt.realbiz360.com/MLS-61590.html 

$2,199,000

DeBordieu Colony- The ocean front home that is unsurpassed as the masterpiece for family gatherings and celebrations with guest. Panoramic ocean views

 

are surrounding from two widespread porches that stretch across this classic beach home. Designed in perfect compatibility with the beach, every room has

ocean views. This brilliant design blends spacious rooms for entertaining with intimate spaces for
 restful quiet time.

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All listings are courtesy of our multi-listing service and are either listed by us or member brokers.  We would love to answer any of your questions about real estate along the Grand Strand!

3802 N Ocean Blvd - Myrtle Beach SC - Dolce Vita - Vacation Rental Scam

                                                        Dolce Vita - 3802 N Ocean Blvd
                                                                    Myrtle Beach, SC

This is our second year of dealing with this!  Here's last years post.....

Since early Spring, Amanda and I have been fielding phone calls on one of our oceanfront listings along the golden mile of Myrtle Beach.  We were excited at first thinking all the calls were from interested buyers, but to our horror we soon realized a much more sinister plan was in action.  We have the house listed "for sale" through the local realtors Multi Listing Service (MLS) and scammers have pirated it and placed this awesome house on vacation rental websites all over the net!!

Not only have they created a fictitious rental listing, the scammers have stolen the professional photo's Amanda has taken. The scammers represented the house as privately owned and listed it for rent, at an incredibly low weekly rental price.  Fortunately, many of the interested
renters have googled the address and see where we had it listed for sale and called us!  We are able to stop several folks from getting scammed....but for others it is a dream vacation turned nightmare.  Last week a couple and their three children arrived in Myrtle Beach to start their family vacation at the beach!! Sadly they have sent the scammer the requested money order/cashier check and paid in advance, signed the agreement and received a bogus set of keys through the mail!!  When they arrived, after driving for two days, the keys didn't work and they were out several thousand dollars!!! This poor family had driven from Canada and arrived late at night to discover they were the victims of a scam.  This is just one of the sad stories we have dealt with.  I literally just got off the phone with another victim out $3,500.00!



I can't say that the scammers are sophisticated, they are just crooks.  They provide a phone number and a mailing address on the rental website and represent themselves as the homeowner.   I actually spoke with Harry Yatsko, the supposed home owner of Dolce Vita (which I know to be untrue), and he was happy to speak with me,  until he realized who I was. and then he slammed the phone down on me and blocked my calls. As we uncover the layers of deception, the scammer keep changing the information, they keep changing the place to send the payment...sometimes it was in Arizona, sometimes the mid-west or California and now they are using PAYPAL.

Here are our words of caution:

*NEVER send cash, Money Order or Cashiers Check when you're not sure who the receiving party is.
*If the price is too good to be true, it probably is!!
*Google or search the address of any property you're interested in renting and if it's listed as rental and for sale, call the agent that has the listing!! They will know  what's going on with the property.
*If you're a victim of a scam, report it to your local police and keep good records of your correspondence with the scammer.
*We've learned the hard way that PAYPAL doesn't warrant services, but Visa/Master Card will - so keep that in mind!

We're still trying to get this house removed off of the rental websites.  Most website owners have been very cooperative and removed the house, but the listing has been added to syndicated sites, so it keeps popping up again. 

This entire situation has been sad for us, our seller has been frustrated, we've been frustrated and spent a lot of time trying to fix this and innocent folks have been scammed out of their beach vacation and money! 

The internet is truly the world wide web!!