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sort areas outside of Newport where truly fabulous rental accommodations can be found. For $60,000, from Memorial to Labor Day , you can be master or mistress of a house with more than 10 bedroom suites, tennis court, pool, Jacuzzi , gym, and ser­vants' quarters , according to Eva Stern of Sea Realty. (The rental may not in­clude utilities .)

Easthampton is considered very art­sy and elite, though the old money is dying out. It was once a community restricted to WASPs but is no longer. Perhaps because of its attraction for New York artists , Easthampton also features the state of the art in beach house architecture, particularly as re­cently available federal flood insur­ance has opened up new coastal low­lands for building.

Easthampton can be less expensive than Southampton because the farther out on Long Island (and away from New York City) you travel, supposed­ly the less desirable the location.

Plan to budget $20,000 for the sea­son for a median rental , although a good time can be had for $7 ,000 to $12 ,000 , again, if properties are avail­able.

Closer to Manhattan, but isolated

just the same, is Fire Island, which can only be reached by ferry in the sum­mer. Fire Island has no roads , but lots of sidewalks to bicycle on. It's pri­marily a summer place; in the winter a mere 1,500 live there, in the summer the population swells to 30,000. Ren­tals are limited and fairly expensive. There aren't any lavish estates, but plenty of cedar-shingled bungalows on the beach. The three most exclu­sive areas are Salt Air, Sea View and Point of Woods .

One Fire Island homeowner who wishes to remain anonymous pur­chased his four-bedroom house in Ocean Beach, the center of activity on the island, for $17,000 in 1962. He now rents it out for $13,000 a season (May 15 through Oct. 1). Rentals can approach the mid-20s.

CAPE COD Compared to Southampton, the

most exclusive rentals on Cape Cod are a steal. Wianno , in the village of Osterville, and its even more exclusive neighbor, Oyster Harbors, offer a few fabulous oceanside homes for $25 ,000 for the season, according to a realtor who lives in that community.

Bill Agee and Mary Cunningham

recently paid $1.9 million for. thet~ hideaway in Oyster Harbors, stte o the Dupont family's estate . The guard at the entrance to Oyster Harbors alsO screens visitors to Gen. James Gavin, and the Joe Lilly family .

At Oyster Harbors, an oceanfront estate, not terribly elaborate, but turn· of-the-century with eight bedrooms. occasionally can be rented for $15 ,000 -If you have a longstanding relati~n· ship with the landlord. Othervllse $25,000 is more the rule for a bous.e of equal size fronting on the Saputt River.

Nearby Wianno offers swimming o~ Nantucket Sound, where the Gul Stream provides water temperatur~s unheard of north of the Carolinas-tO the 70s in August . An oceanside beach house , again for $25 ,000 for the sea· son, on exclusive Seaview A venue probably would be unchanged iO decor over the last 40 years , providing a touch of old-time fantasy or nostal· gia, depending on your perspective·

Beaches in the area are restricted tO residents. But Massachusetts law as· sures that all beaches are accessible tO the public for purposes of fisbifiSi ) hunting of fowl, or navigation-fee

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RENTAL RESOURCES AREA AGENCY AGENT PHONE

ADIRONDACKS

Lake George/Lake Champlain Bell Point Realty Rolf Ronning (518) 668-4400

Lake Placid Merrill L. Thomas Agency Robert Politi (518) 523-2519

Saratoga Springs Century 21/Metzger & Korfin Norm Hackman (518) 584-0900

BERKS HIRES Coldwell Banker/Isgood Realty Jeff Bolza (413) 443-4416

CAPE COD Craigville Realty Martin Traywick (617) 775-3174

CATSKILLS Reber Realty Frederick Reber (914) 557-8600 Barbanti Realty Gene Barbanti (914) 292-6781

FIRE ISLAND Fire Island Summer Space Debbie Alter (516) 583-7790

THE HAMPTONS Sea Realty Eva Stern (516) 283-4343

MAINE

The Kennebunks Kennebunk Beach Realty Co . Norman E. Merrow (207) 967-5512

Mount Desert Island The Knowles Co. Barbara Kent Train (207) 276-3322

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. Spinnaker Real Estate (401) 635-2300

MARTHA'S VINEYARD Barbara Nevin Real Estate Jennifer Stix (617) 627-404 1 Tea Lane Associates (617) 645-9882 Harborside Realty Caroline Taylor (617) 627-4345

NANTUCKET J . Pepper Frazer Realty Pepper Frazer (617) 228-3202

NEWPORT, R.I. Private Properties Robin Corbin (401) 847-1031 Chartier Real Estate

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