Midgett Realty Blog

As the saying goes “sitting is the new smoking”, so hop on out of that desk chair and sign up for one of the 4 Outer Banks 5K’s taking place this fall! 4 5K’s on the OBX HUMC Fishy 5K | September 18th, 2021 Kick off Hatteras Village’s Day at The Docks festivities and run the Fishy 5K, sponsored by Midgett Realty! The race will start and end at Hatteras...

There is always fun to be had on Hatteras Island, no matter the season. As summer is quickly coming to a close and the cooler days of fall will be here before we know it, we want to share two family fun events held annually in Hatteras Village that are must attends, should you be able to make it to this little place that we know and love. 2 Great...

Are you counting down the days for your upcoming Hatteras Island beach vacation? While there is no shortage of good times while you’re here, we have created a collaborative list of the top 3 classes available to you while you’re staying on this little sandbar that we all know and love. TOP 3 CLASSES TO TRY ON HATTERAS ISLAND DURING SUMMER 2021 1. Find Peace with Hatteras Yoga Emerging from...

One of the things that draws people to Hatteras Island is its uniquely pristine beaches. Unlike neighboring beaches up and down the coastline, our seashore isn’t overloaded with giant billboard advertisements on benches, sailboats, and airplanes. Discarded waste isn’t flying out of overly filled trashcans on populated boardwalks and there isn’t a grid of umbrellas every 8 feet because there are nearly 70 miles of beautiful beachfront for you to...

For most of us, the Holidays are a special time of year…in more ways than one! The nostalgia, the hustle and bustle, the coziness of chunky sweaters and warm blankets. Holiday music, intricately designed store windows, inspirational and heart-warming movies that make you want to immediately give your entire bank account to the first person who needs it. Glitter, glitter and MORE glitter–it’s the most wonderful time of the year!!!...

If you’re not completely clear on what Giving Tuesday is, it’s essentially a day that commemorates giving as opposed to consumerism and is celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, directly on the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To learn more, visit here. This year, Giving Tuesday will fall on December 1, 2020 and as the global landscape has been affected by the unprecedented impact of Covid-19, there are...

What a guest wants versus what a guest needs is often a blurred line when searching for the perfect vacation rental home. It may not necessarily be needed, but if it offers enough value to the vacation, the wanted amenity might win out in the end when booking a rental property. With that in mind, we have collected the top sought-after amenities to help our home owners maximize the return...

2020 feels very much like The Upside Down. Our surroundings look the same, but everything is very, very different. For those of you who didn’t binge watch the Netflix sci-fi series, “Stranger Things”, The Upside Down is basically a parallel universe where everything is just that, upside down or opposite. Nine months into it, like you, we’re just trying to make the best of it. Fortunately for us, we have...

Fall From the Hatteras Island Local’s Perspective: When you’re born and raised on Hatteras Island, you experience life a little differently than most. Not just in the small-town way, that is both charming and intimidating, but in a cyclical manner of extremes. From Easter to Thanksgiving, island residents are running on overdrive to earn their living. During the slow winter months, they are steadily preparing for the following season, upgrading,...

As the old song goes, the holidays (during a normal year) are widely celebrated as “the most wonderful time of the year”. In the midst of a global pandemic, we can only hope and pray as much! During this unique time, we’ve been forced to see and try things differently—the way we communicate, the way we work, the way we learn, the way we share space with others. In some...

As we’ve noted, Hatteras Island is a great place for Coastal Distancing and Coastal Distance Learning. And our vacation rental homes avoid the high-traffic lobbies and shared common areas that are necessary in hotels and lodges. What we haven’t mentioned, and you possibly haven’t considered, is Hatteras Island for the holidays. The last weeks of summer are winding down and pumpkin-spice everything is juuuust around the corner. A beach vacation...

Science is a broad subject, but whether your child is in preschool or high school, you can easily make your time on Hatteras Island a fun and interesting learning opportunity anywhere from the maritime forest to the beach. Using the natural elements found on Hatteras Island, you can create a variety of fun science projects from creating sand slime and sand volcanos to collecting samples for salinity testing and beyond. Take a...