[ansel12]

Since I also lived on the water and knew what it did to brass and everything else, like those patio doors and door knobs and lamps etc. I would speculate what it would cost to keep everything in his house so shiny and the doors sliding open so easily and the windows not showing the ocean spray mess which covers everything.

[Jeff Chandler]

My mother considered purchasing a house at the beach, but the maintenance costs were too high. You have to continually relace the external wooden structure.