Whaleshead beach resort-living there full time (Sherwood, Brookings: for sale, leases, insurance)

[lmblevins67]

Can anyone tell me about Whalehead resort? We are considering buying a cabin there to live year round. The resort grounds look well maintained and the staff in the store were nice when we checked it out, but we are new to the area and don't know anything about the history there.

Anything we should know, good or bad? Thanks.

[Steve Pickering]

I don't think there are any cabins at Whaleshead. It seems to me they were all Park Model Mobil Homes. It is a great view although the wind is a killer at times. I have stayed there. Great as long as you don't need a job.

[Sherwoody]

Originally Posted by Steve Pickering

I don't think there are any cabins at Whaleshead. It seems to me they were all Park Model Mobil Homes. It is a great view although the wind is a killer at times. I have stayed there. Great as long as you don't need a job.

This looks like a cabin but not certain if it's the place the op is considering.

19921 WHALESHEAD RD T-3, Brookings, OR - MLS 12135402 - Estately

[Steve97415]

Whaleshead Beach Resort is a mobile home park. They are Park Models, though I think they all have permanent foundations so the general vibe is different from most other mobile home parks where trailers are mixed in with modular homes. Whaleshead Beach is a nice beach to poke around. There's also a trailhead just across Hwy. 101 that will take you up the coast trail to Indian Sands and beyond. Other than that...what will you do with your time? When you live somewhere that's regionally urbanized, a secluded location is nice. When you live someplace that's regionally remote, I would be more careful. You're going to be very dependent on that tiny little resort store and restaurant. Every time you want to go into Brookings it's an 8-mile drive. That'll get old real fast. Even Brookings feels like a remote location that's far removed from the U.S. mainstream. We lived there for 10 years and wore out a few sets of tires traveling back to the U.S. mainland for civilization breaks.

Remember that Whaleshead is unincorporated Curry County. Curry County is teetering on the edge of insolvency and will probably fail in the next year or so. Within southwestern Oregon, I would much prefer to live within the legal limits of a financially-sound municipality where there will be dependable services for the foreseeable future.

[Steve97415]

Originally Posted by Sherwoody

This looks like a cabin but not certain if it's the place the op is considering.

Yes, that's the place. It may look like a cabin, but it's a prefab building that was manufactured in a factory and trucked to the site. Cabin, cottage, modular, prefab, mobile home, Park model...call it whatever you want, but it's not a site-built structure.

[Steve Pickering]

It is a near certainty that Curry County will go Bankrupt in the next few years. Fire insurance will go through the roof.

As I said I have been there. They are Park Models that originally sold for $18,000 or there abouts.


From the MLS listing

MLS# 12135402
TURN KEY WITH OCEAN VIEWS! Spacious park-model cabin located in popular Whaleshead RV Resort.

[lmblevins67]

Thanks for the responses...I am aware that what I called cabins are park models, my error. What I was looking for is info specific to Whaleshead Resort itself and its management. Anyone know about that?

[Steve Pickering]

They are nice people. They had some regulatory issues and I think there were financial problems, but they are still there and I have no personal knowledge other than the grapevine on either of the aforementioned.

[tvlingrl]

lmblevins67:

We have been thinking of Whaleshead also. Stayed there during the summer of 2012 and the view and location is great. The park models are overpriced to buy (found out that many people paid way too much originally) and the lease space is as well (which is what is keeping us from a final decision to buy). They are planning on increasing the leases, some over 10 %! Remember, you do not own the land and are at the mercy of Whaleshead. What are you going to do move your home if you don't agree on the increase? Also, there are alot of these cabins going up for sale all of a sudden. My question is why? It is under new management.You may want to do a search online for reviews of the property or ask the people that live there full-time what they think. We did and many were not to satisified with the job Whaleshead was doing. We are thinking of looking further up the coast.

[Steve Pickering]

You hit on much of it, and I mentioned the rest. Curry County is failing and with the lack of county services insurence will be unaffordable.