[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.

[ansel12]

I don’t know about that, I lived in a wood structure on the water that was well over a 100 years old and many of the coastal apartment buildings and houses on the beach are old and wood in Southern California.

I wonder if she meant to keep it pristine? Keeping things pristine on the beach is a losing battle.