http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ Seabrook Homeowners Forum » Recent Posts en Thu, 17 May 2012 07:47:57 +0000 http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=6#post-42 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:55:27 +0000 Lisa Brihagen 42@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Hi Lisa. We just bought Lot 237 (Madison Lane) ... we looked at the bunk beds in Beachy Keen ... love 'em!</p> <p>Did you find a tax accountant for vacation homes? I think we'll need some help!</p> <p>thanks -- Lisa </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-41 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:33:24 +0000 Ivo 41@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>As our community grows, we've been working behind the scenes to create Seabrook's first school!</p> <p>We have heard from several homeowners that having a school would make their permanent move to Seabrook a possibility. Our plan is to open the school in the Fall for 1st-6th grade and also hope to be opening a pre-school/daycare as well.</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Seabrook Montessori School Webinar - we had a great discussion about the feasibility and promise of the school at Seabrook.</p> <p>If you weren't able to join us live during the webinar, here is a full recording of the meeting. Please allow a few seconds for the video to load.</p> <p>[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixXZa-lNaco[/video]</p> <p>If you have any questions or comments, please email Casey at <a href="mailto:casey@seabrookwa.com">casey@seabrookwa.com</a>.</p> <p>To learn more about the concept of Montessori, visit the <a href="http://www.seabrookwa.com/montessori_resources.asp">Montessori Resources</a> page for videos on why this type of school would work well at Seabrook.</p> <p>See you at the beach! </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=30#post-40 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:37:58 +0000 Ivo 40@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>A big thanks to all the Seabrook Homeowners who were able to join us for this webinar on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. </p> <p>If you weren't able to hop on during the web presentation, here is a recording of the webinar. Please allow a few seconds for the video to load.</p> <p>[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9EikU51Rc[/video] </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-39 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:04:55 +0000 Ivo 39@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>Here is a copy of the <a href="http://www.seabrookwa.com/pdfs/2012-Seabrook-Homeowner-Directory-(2.27.12).pdf">2012 Homeowner Directory</a> (3.2 MB)</p> <p>The directory was last updated on 2.27.2012 after we received some change requests from some of the owners.</p> <p>If you do find something incorrect, do not hesitate to let us know! Just email Ivo at <a href="mailto:ivo@seabrookwa.com">ivo@seabrookwa.com</a>.</p> <p>Thank you! </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=7#post-18 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:38:36 +0000 MKJ 18@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>I would ask Steve Trygstad to recomend a painter, <a href="mailto:steve@seabrookwa.com">steve@seabrookwa.com</a> Steve knows most of the contractors in the area. </p> <p>Good Luck!</p> <p>Mary Kay<br /> Laughing Gull </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=7#post-17 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:50:47 +0000 immjkl 17@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>My house (Beachtime) is one of the older houses and needs painting. Has any one else had to touch up/repaint and can you share who it was and level of satisfaction with service?<br /> thanks </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=5#post-16 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:24:47 +0000 JMHawkins 16@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>We have DSL through CenturyLink, and haven't had any problems once we got everything set up and working (it took a couple of calls to get everything going, but since then, no problems). </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=1#post-15 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:51:32 +0000 PMAPhila 15@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>My name is Tricia Anderson. My husband Jeff &amp; I own Seastar Cottage. We live in Renton, WA and have a 6 year old son and 2.5 year old daughter. We purchased our home in Fall 2006 (construction was completed in June 2007) after spending a week with extended family at Central Park &amp; spending lots of time talking with Casey (whom we adore, along with his Mom Robyn, sister Darcie and the rest of the Roloff clan).</p> <p>We will be at Seabrook over Labor Day weekend. Post if you will also be there at that time. It would be nice to meet other homeowners.</p> <p>Tricia </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=6#post-14 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:13:40 +0000 jlgreeno 14@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>We just put our house, The Beachy Keen, in the rental pool. I'm an accountant, but don't specialize in tax. Tax accounting for vacation homes seems to have a few interesting quirks...Just wondering if all you who are in the rental pool are enlisting the help of tax preparers, or are you doing it yourself? I'm tempted to get someone to help with the first year and then I'll take it from there. Any thoughts? Any names of tax professionals who specialize in vacation home rentals? Seattle area?<br /> Thanks! Lisa Greenough </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=3#post-13 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:07:21 +0000 jlgreeno 13@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>We also went through Chris. My husband was on this task, but he did say it was pretty expensive. It's nice that Chris as dealt with quite a few Seabrook owners.<br /> Lisa </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=1#post-12 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:04:47 +0000 jlgreeno 12@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Hi, This is Lisa Greenough. My husband Jeff and I purchased the Beachy Keen at Beach Camp and it recently entered the rental pool. We have 2 kids...ages 8 and 12. We fell in love with Seabrook the night we drove in at 9pm, saw the stars in the sky, heard the ocean surf and took a bike ride in the dark. Love at first sight!<br /> We're excited to get to know our Seabrook neighbors...so write in!<br /> Lisa </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=5#post-11 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:57:55 +0000 PMAPhila 11@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>We have been using Coast Communications for service since July 2007 and haven't experienced any problems. We typically use the house for one week at a time (twice a year), while it is in the rental pool for the rest of the time. No one from property management has informed us about service issues. Have you spoken to them to see if anyone else is haviong a problem?</p> <p>It may be a modem issue (not a wireless router issue). Here in Seattle, we were having internet connectively problems on a daily basis with Comcast. The quickest way to fix it was for me to reset our modem. When we moved to a new house, I requested a new modem. That was 6 weeks ago and we have not experienced any outages since then. Ask Coast to provide a new modem and see if that works.</p> <p>Good luck.</p> <p>Tricia Anderson (Seastar Cottage) </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=5#post-10 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:50:52 +0000 hkhisatomi 10@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>We have cable and internet from Coast Communications. We seem to end up not being able to connect to the internet pretty frequently (or worse, our renters cannot) and have to call Coast and ask them to reset their router (not ours) to solve the issue. Does anyone else have similar issues and / or know if DSL throuch CenturyLink is more reliable? </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=2#post-9 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:41:22 +0000 Ivo 9@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>I just noticed the sound gets lost for a bit after the 2 minute mark. I apologize for that, we'll look into clipping that part of the video out.</p> <p>As for the figure, we have sold 30 homes in the last 12 months, and counting :) </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=3#post-7 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:48:50 +0000 Mike Weldin 7@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Thanks for the information Dave. I'll give Chris a call. Hope to see you at Seabrook. Mike/Cindy </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=3#post-6 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:08:10 +0000 castaway 6@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Mike,</p> <p>We were also surpised at how expensive it is to insure a 2nd/vacation/rental home. After finding that most standard home insurance agencies don't even offer policies we went through Chris Raders who was recommended by Holly.</p> <p>Chris is a great guy to work with. He got us several quotes and was in constant contact as our house was being built. We went with Scottsdale Insurance, which was the least expensive of the quotes. Honestly though, I didn't do a lot of other shopping around.</p> <p>I think Chris has worked with several Seabrook homeowners.</p> <p>Here's his contact info:</p> <p>Chris Raders<br /> McGregor Insurance, Inc.<br /> PO BOX 429<br /> Ocean Shores, WA 98569<br /> <a href="mailto:raders@coastaccess.com">raders@coastaccess.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.mcgregorins.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcgregorins.com</a><br /> (360) 289-2808<br /> (360) 580-9056 Cell<br /> (360) 289-3179 Fax</p> <p>-Dave Bettineski<br /> Lot 137, "Cast Away" </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=3#post-5 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:27:54 +0000 Mike Weldin 5@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>My wife Cindy and I are owners of Weldin House on Fireside Ln. We think the homeowners forum is a great idea and would like to thank Seabrook for making it happen. Like many others we only use our home occasionally and rent it out the rest of the time. We have found that home insurance for this type of activity is very expensive and we had to go outside of the normal home owner insurers. Does anyone have a good contact where they have obtained insurance for a reasonable price? Thanks for any ideas anyone has. Hope to see you at Seabrook. The Weldins. </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=2#post-4 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:40:25 +0000 mfritz 4@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>I lost the sound after "we have sold approximately....." how many homes have you sold? </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=2#post-3 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:26:42 +0000 Ivo 3@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>On June 1, Seabrook Homeowners held their first online town meeting in the form of a webinar hosted by founder and president Casey Roloff. </p> <p>At the meeting, Casey gave an overview of Seabrook's current health as a beach town and addressed many questions that you as homeowners submitted.</p> <p>If you weren't able to log on to the webinar, you can view it below.</p> <p>&nbsp;<br /> [video]http://vimeo.com/12238774[/video] </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=1#post-2 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:09:25 +0000 hkhisatomi 2@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Thank you for getting this forum started! It sounds like a great place to share ideas and ask questions.</p> <p>I'll introduce myself in hope that others will do the same : ) My name is Heather Hisatomi and my husband, Randal, and I own the Moondance at Seabrook. We purchased the house last fall and we're loving our time at Seabrook. We have two kids ages 4 and 7 and a one year old puppy. We live in West Seattle and try to come to Seabrook once a month to relax and enjoy time with our kids.</p> <p>And, we hope to see the sun at the beach often this summer! </p> http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/topic.php?id=1#post-1 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:24:43 +0000 Ivo 1@http://seabrookwa.com/owners/forum/ <p>Seabrook Homeowners,</p> <p>We would like to welcome you to the Homeowners Forum - an online community designed just for you.</p> <p>Use this space of the Homeowners Blog to share and discuss ideas, events, specific houses, or anything else you would like your fellow homeowners to know.</p> <p>As Seabrook grows over time, we hope this corner of the blog can be a place for all of you to get to know each other and truly develop our Seabrook community.</p> <p>Enjoy the conversation,</p> <p>-the Seabrook Team </p>