Helping You Find The Right Beach House For Sale on the Outer Banks

Hi, I'm Mike Bishal an Outer Banks Real Estate Consultant. If you're interested in learning more about buying real estate on the Outer Banks or selling your home for cash quickly, you may want to check out our site where you can search all the available Outer Banks beach houses for sale.

Did you know right now, while you're watching and listening to me, an agent from our firm is standing by ready to help you? 

Just text or call me and we'll get engaged with you, ask you a couple of questions.  Learn more about how we can best help you find a house on the Outer Banks...

Look, we realize a lot of people know what they want. So instead of going through all the searches and all that time to spend to examine the area, resource us, a local pro, and we'll do that work for you.

From there we'll send links, make our suggestions, get you out here to look of some of these homes, and get you to where you want to be. Thanks again for visiting us and realize we are on standby right now.

If you've vacationed on the Outer Banks and are considering becoming a homeowner, you may appreciate my video: Going from Vacationer to Home Owner on the Outer Banks

Surfing for Autism Outer Banks 2016

Don't forget this weekend is one of the best events on the Outer Banks, as it's the annual Surfing for Autism weekend at Jennette's Pier.

More information can be found on the event on their website or Facebook page.

OBX Beach Gear Challenge: Pop-Up Tent vs. Canopy

Our last question, what is the best beach umbrella to use of the Outer Banks a Neso Tents or a Sport-Brella, was full of excellent insights from many on the OBX Facebook page.

In our desire to find the best beach gear to use on our Outer Banks vacations, we decided to ask another question. Which is better to use on the beach a pop-up tent or a canopy?

We'd love to hear your opinion on which is better for providing shade/shelter throughout a long summer beach day?

Which option do you think is better and why?

Lightspeed Outdoors Pop Up Sport Shelter Beach Tent 

 vs.

 EasyGo - Beach & Sports Cabana

Looking forward to everyone's thoughts...

Best OBX Beach Umbrella: Sport-Brella vs Neso Tents

We're trying to decide what's the best umbrella to use on your Outer Banks Vacation, and we need your help. Let us know which umbrella you think is best for standing up to the winds on the Outer Banks.

Someone recently mentioned that they preferred using a Neso Tents over a Sport-Brella while they were vacationing on the Outer Banks. We have been using a Sport-Brella for the last several years, and have never had a complaint.

We are probably going to have to replace our beach umbrella after the Summer and are now torn, should we give the Neso Tent a try or stick with the Sport-Brella?

Would love to hear from anyone who has used one of the other, which was better?

 Neso Tent

vs.

Sport-Brella

A question on the Vacation OBX Facebook page asked:

Had pretty good success with one of these (Sport-Brella) umbrellas last year...What's your suggestion for a good OBX umbrella?

Most of the comments supported buying a Sport-Brella and some even provided some good tips for how to make sure your umbrella doesn't blow away:

• I have one of these for the beach. Love it! just make sure you anchor it if it's windy. Perfect thing for a day at the beach! We love this umbrella for the beach! 
• Many a nap has been taken under it. We put sand around the bottom to help anchor it down. 
• We anchor ours with tote bags filled with sand. Works great. 
• We switched to these a few years back, works great and doesn't blow away. 
• Love ours. Highly recommended. Just don't store the pointed extension pole inside the main pole. Just a little bit of sand made it virtually impossible to get back out. We keep them separate now and just throw it in the bag with the umbrella. 
• My husband and I have one and we love ours. However, we suggest using the corkscrew stakes (used for dogs) as the stakes. The stakes that come with it are not strong enough for the sand. With 4 of those, it works perfectly. Especially on windy days at the beach. 
•  We have this same one and love it! It will not blow away! 
• We've been using a nice high end Tommy Bahama umbrella, the one that you just pound into the sand with the upper part. It's a nice umbrella, but the clamp started to slip and lose its grip on the bottom pole. I wrote Tommy Bahama and asked if they offered a replacement piece to fix it, since it started going the first summer. They replied that they didn't make it, just had their name put on it. I wrote the manufacturer, no luck there either. So, yeah, I'd say go with that Sport-Brella there.