Sunset Properties Selects Initial Winners in its Tenant Access Promotion

Sunset Properties is pleased to announce the initial winners of its current "Tenant Access" promotion for Ocean Isle Beach, NC vacation rental guests.

The winners include: Sheila Price, Julie Hunter, Joan Ackerman, Mundi Gouker, Tracy Dotson, Judy Stevens, and Kathleen Sypolt!  Each will receive a copy of the new "Sunset Properties-opoly" game from the company.

You can still be a winner-we have 7 more to select!  Just use the Tenant Access link at the bottom of our website at http://www.vacationrentalsatoceanisle.com/, and then either update or create your own guest record.  We'll select one winner per day thru June 6th!

Sunset Properties launches 2012 Photo and Video Contest

Sunset Properties is pleased to announce that it will be giving away 2 IPad HD's this year to the grand prize winners of its Photo and Video contests.

We are asking our vacation rental guests and homeowners to submit their best beach photos and videos by August 25th.  See our website's promotion page for all of the entry details.

Our staff will select the five finalists in each category, and those entries will each receive a copy of our new "Sunset Properties-opoly" game.  The new wrinkle this year is we will then ask everyone to help us select the grand prize winners by voting in early September through our Facebook pages.

So get those cameras out, and start shooting!

Sunset Properties Sponsors Concerts on the Coast

Sunset Properties is pleased to announce its sponsorship renewal of the Concerts on the Coast series that will run from Memorial Day through Labor Day at the Museum of Coastal Carolina.

The schedule kicks off on Friday, May 25th with "The Entertainers" performing from 6:30-8:00 pm on the stage at the Museum's parking lot, and continues each Friday through the summer until the finale on August 31st.  Each concert is free-just bring a lawn chair to sit and enjoy.

The series is coordinated by the Ocean Isle Property Owners Association as one of several activities held on the island during the summer.  Donations for a local food pantry will be accepted at each concert.

Easter Service Scheduled for OIB Beach Strand

Shallotte Presbyterian will be hosting an Easter service on the beach strand at Ocean Isle Beach this Sunday at 8:30 am.

The church conducts Sunday service each week from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day at 8:30 as well. The ecumenical service is held on the beach strand at the Driftwood Street access.

Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt Grand Prize Winners Announced

Thanks again to everyone that played in the Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt. We ended up with over 3000 qualifying entries!

We're pleased to announce that Paul Hammond from Akron, Ohio was drawn as the grand prize winner. Paul and his family will receive a $1,000 credit for their vacation this year (which we've heard will be their 10th at Sunset Beach!).
Other grand prize winners drawn include:

Choice of Trip Insurance/Linen Setup-Rich Brenner, Grant Hink, and Kimberly Myka

"Sun Catcher" Rental Package-Marcia Gilbert and George Lockhart

Choice of Shopping Trip/Beach Dinner-Kathy Bosse and Pam Krolczyk

Roberto's Dinner Certificate-Sue Schmidbauer and Peggy Stanley

Lynn Yates was drawn as our Day 10 winner of a copy of the "Sunset Properties-opoly" game.
We appreciated all of the interest in this contest, and we'll plan to do another again next year!

Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt-Day 10

Well, we've reached the final day of our first Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt. Hope everyone has enjoyed this little diversion while we all count down the days until 'beach season'.

We want to send thanks out to Mark Randle and the folks at Visual Data Systems (Ellicott City, MD)-they design and support our websites, and first came up with the Scavenger Hunt idea. Of course, we didn't realize how much effort it would take when we said we would try it! But it's been fun on our end-we appreciated hearing all of the vacation stories over the last two weeks.

Here's the final activity: Question: what type of animal might you see in the marshland as you cross the Sunset Beach bridge from mainland to the island? Clue: There are plenty of options for this answer, but we're looking for the one mentioned in this short YouTube video.

Once you think you've got the answer, email us by Saturday at 10 am at sunsetproperties@atmc.net.

Our Day 9 winner of a "Sunset Properties-opoly" game is Megan Woolheater.

We have close to 3,000 qualifying entries to date, and plan to hold the grand prize drawings Monday afternoon. We will post the winners mid-week on our blogs and websites after we have a chance to notify the winners individually.

Thanks again to all of you for playing! We'll do this again in the future.

Day 9 of the Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt

Thanks to those of you that reached out to the great state of South Dakota yesterday-looks like we had a visitor!

We've reach our final two days of the Sunset Properties Scavenger Hunt.

Our staff gets asked this question at least once a day by those that haven't stayed at either island before: what's there to do in the area?

At some point in the week, folks need to take a break from our great beaches. Could be they're sunburned (even though Mom told them to put that sunscreen on), or waterlogged (after being in the ocean all day).

Well, there's plenty to do off of the beach when you are ready. Golf and tennis for the athletes in the crowd. Fun shopping for others. A planetarium, wineries, and agri-tours for the more inspired. And today's answer. Question #9: Which area museum can kids find a touch tank at? Clue: read the island info page for the answer under the All About... link on either website's home page.

Yesterday's answer: Sunset Properties (of course!). Congratulations to Sydney Love for being selected for the daily prize of a copy of our "Sunset Properties-opoly" game.