Coastal properties….avoid? sell? ….or false alarm ?

Probably a push by tree-huggers inside the gov. to save our foreshores from future developments and buy back the land on the cheap. They must be from the place where they stopped the wind generators from going ahead because of 1-2 suicidal parrots flying into the blades .
If the guy wants to build near water on his own block let him, who cares that the sea may rise between 18 – 100cm in 100 years? I doubt that he'll care about it by then.
Most marina developments in the past few years have already had the predicted rise in sea level worked into them. Port Wakefield in SA looks like is having problems getting off the ground and I think one of the developments just South of Mandurah in WA got knocked back recently as well so you could be right about the bandwagon.
I'm thinking that it'd be good news for the existing marina,coastal estates as the scarcity factor would push up the prices. Someone who can afford a waterfront property now is not likely to be around in 100 years anyway so the predictions are irrelevant even if they were proven to be right.

I taught the media stopped all that "save yourselves, head for the hills" nonsense after Y2K but looks like it didn't take them long to find some other reason to spread gloom and doom and sell more papers. I hope they go ahead with the class action and take the council to the cleaners as well as the media for spreading the rumors.  Also I'd like to see the "experts" accurately predict the rise in sea level over the next 100 weeks instead of 100 years and if it turns out they are right then fine, continue to pay their wages. But if they are wrong have them charged with spreading fear and terrorizing the population, confiscate their assets and locked them up for at least 30 year.

The GW money making juggernaught continues to roll along. Further fuelled by governments worldwide, keen to embrace anything green.

I personally think the big bad Global Warming boogie man is a complete scam, dreamed up to sell newspapers and get cheap publicity for crank scientists.

I work in the computer industry, and I can assure you that our current state of the art computer technology is not capable of modelling complex weather and climate patterns with any more reliablilty than the daily newspaper horoscope. 

I have seen so many of these orchestrated scares in my time that I totally ignore them now.

If the levels of global warming that are predicted actually happen, there will be so many billions of people in low lying parts of Asia and Africa affected that we will have worldwide famine, homelessness and wars as millions of refugees move to higher ground and swamp the people already living there .   The last thing on our minds will be a few waves lapping at the door of our coastal property.  

But to move on to more constructive matters, I have just put in an offer on a unit in Batehaven and hope to take ownership of it in the next few weeks.   Its right opposite the beach, 100 metres to shops,  walk to clubs, tennis, golf course etc.    Really looking forward to getting my hands on it.

Does anyone know if there is a good thread on this site that discusses the pros and cons of renting out beachside units as either permanent rental versus short-term holiday let?

I have done a quick search on the site using keywords "holiday" and "let" but got swamped with results, most irrelevant.
 
I need to find out a few details about what standard of  furniture and fitings I should build the place up to, whether its a good idea to let a Real Estate agency manage the lettings or should I use one of the internet sites and DIY the lettings (could be difficult with me based in Canberra).

Would love to hear about other people doing the same thing, success and horror stories both welcome.

Cheers,
Kevin