This is a spot check. Folks look for vacation rentals in the classified's. I've listed the ads that contain a links to a website.

From the June 2 and June 16, 2002 Atlanta Journal Constitution Travel Guide. Pages K-14 and K-15.

As you can see, there is a lot of surfing to do to find your ideal property.

Dauphin Island, Alabama

1. http://www.boardwalk-realty.com for Bordwalk Realty, Inc.

Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama

1. www.Suncoastbeachvacations.com grope search.
2. www.irvine-realtors.com by Suncoast Vacation Rentals, a standard real estate site, rental grope search page is http://www.suncoastbeachvacations.com/search.asp by Suncoast Vacation Rentals too
3. www.ftmorganrealty.com a rental site here's the search, you can see the whole shebang.
4. www.beachvisits.com a rental site with non-grope search from the home page (that doesn't work on 6-4-02).
5. www.kaiserrealty.com a rental site that take 3 click to get to semi-grope search page.  Logon for property owners to check availability .
6. www.gulfshoresvacations.com redirects to http://www.resortquest.com/gulfshores/index.cfm a semi-grope site.
7. http://www.sugsands.com/ by Sugar Sands Realty (site doesn't work very well) (June 16)
8. http://pleasureislandcondos.com/ rentals at high rise condos Admiral's Quarters, Royal Palms, The Palms, and Tidewater - probably more too.  Site by http://www.onlinedesign.net/home.html (June 16)
9. http://www.aaasuncoast.com/index.asp by Suncoast Vacation Rentals (June 16)
10. http://prudentialcooper.com/ for Prudential Cooper & Co. Inc., Realtors, site by http://www.siteone.com/ (June 16)

Cocoa Beach, Florida

1. www.royalmansions.com for a low-rise condominium.

Amelia Island, Florida

1. http://www.surfandracquet.com/ a mid-rise condo low tech site.
2. www.ameliaislandvacations.com  lists all properties here, low tech.
3. www.amelia-era.com real estate site with no grope.
4. www.amelialodgings.com low tech, no grope, I like it.
5. http://aipfl.com/ from the Resort itself. Site by http://www.zgraph.com/ (June 16)

Anastasia Island, St Augustine, Florida

1. www.5starrealty.com real estate without vacation rental information.

Daytona & Ormond Beach, Florida

1. www.daytonawelcomecenter.com low tech presence site.

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

www.longboardinn.com a bed and breakfast.

St Augustine Beach, Florida

1. www.florida-resort-rentals.com low tech presence site with animated gegaws, don't really understand this site but it has some nice pictures.
2. www.anastasiacondos.com mid-rise condo.
3. www.oldcity.com/ORC low-rise condo low tech site
4. http://www.poncelanding.com/ for Ponce Landing, a single development. (June 16)

Cape San Blas, Indian Pass, Mexico Beach, Florida

1. www.stjoebay.com real estate and rentals, low performance but attractive.  semi-grope.

Carillon Beach, Florida

1. www.carillonbeachrentals.com Seaside like village.  It lists one rental house as of 6-4-02.

Destin, Florida

1. www.destingulffront.com simple site for 3 Destin condo complexes.
2. www.vrbo.com/vrbo/2338.htm an individual house on VRBO, yea! ***
3. www.floridarental.com high tech flash site is extensive, slow, and unpleasant to use but you can see all the properties with groping.
4. www.destinpointe.com a gated community with a variety of housing.
5. www.holidayisle.net real estate with no grope rental listing, attractive and straight forward.
6. www.ecvr.com Attractive site with grope by www.mindvisions.com (who have a pretensious and unplesant home page BTW).
7. www.destinvacation.com Newman Daily Resort Properties, Flash, semi-group and "browse all" may be ecvr.com in disguise.
8. www.legendaryresorts.net nice and no grope, I like it. **
9. www.edgewaterbeach.com the giant wedge shaped condominium.
10. www.beaconresorts.com another mindvision like ecvr but you can view all the properties.
11. www.destinresorts.com Real estate, can see all the properties.
12. www.sterlingshores.com a mid-high-rise condo.
13. www.anchorsresorts.com  real estate site with rentals.
14. www.southernresorts.com a meta grope site but it's right on the home page and you can list them all (82 on 6-4-02) - good.
15. www.destinsbestrentals.com resort property management with deep grope search.
16. www.baywoods.com "six acres, 11 houses" low teck.
17. www.emeraldwaters.net low tech, all properties in one click plus semi grope, good.
18. www.destin-condo.com rental and property management for several condo properties.
19. http://www.eackley.com/ for Ellie Ackley's Sunshine Vacation Villas for one midrise in Destin, by owner.  (June 16)
20. http://www.abbotts-resorts.com a Resort Quest site with semi grope

Dune Allen, Grayton, Seagrove, Seacrest, Rosemary Beach, Florida

1. www.beachrentalsofsouthwalton.com straight forward, listing on one click, good. *** but search is broken.
2. www.rivardnet.com Rivard of South Walton. attractive site by http://www.rental-network.com/ with grope search.
3. www.seabreezeresort.com a midrise condo.
4. www.rentsouthwalton.com real estate site, 3 clicks to see list of properties, low tech.
5. www.garrettrealty.com real estate site, pretty and slow loading, 2 clicks to property list.
6. www.oneseagroveplace.com high-rise condo with gegaws.
7. www.panamabeachrentals.com low tech with a link to Coldwell Banker in PC, property list in one click but grope for availability.
8. http://www.graytonbeach.com/rentals.html didn't avertise in the paper but it's a good site and has very attractive pages for each rental.
9. http://www.cottagesbythegulf.com/ two cottages at Seagrove, "Moon Dream Cottage"and "ea Dream Cottage" aren't the the newspaper but it's a nice page.
10. http://seagrovebeach.com/  for Seagrove on the Beach Realty (June 16)

Mexico Beach, Florida

1. www.florida-beach.com Anchor Reality, grope search.
2. www.mexicobeachproperties.com  pretty site, low tech, one click to property list, not bad at all.

Panama City, Florida

1. www.vacation.go.cc very low tech done in AOL.
2. www.beachvacation.com low tech site for two beach front cottages.
3. www.pinnacleportrental.com  for Pinnacle Port Resort, has very cute hermit crab graphics, a nice site.
4. www.dunesofpanama.com a conde complex.
5. www.webicity.com/summit  this site gives a 404 error.
6. www.regencytowers.net big condo site.
7. www.sandpiperbeacon.com a big hotel on the beach, rooms, condos, and villas.
8. www.summerhousepc.com   a gulf front high rise condo w. 2br apartments.
9. www.basicmgt.com condos and resorts, "The Inn at St Thomas Square," "Top of the Gulf, "Sunbird," "Watercrest," "Sugarbeach," and "Venture Out".
10. www.jansebrcondos.com 5 by owner condos at the "Sandpiper Beacon Beach Resort," a high-rise, charming site
11. www.nellysbeachcondos.com  for "Long Beach Condos," Edgewater Condos," "The Commodore," and "Sunny Sands Motel".
12. www.sunsetbeachgetaway.com a by owner beach house in gated "Sunset Beach." Compact rental information page ***.
13. http://www.waterfrontrental.net/ low tech site for high rise condo (June 16)
14. http://bchrentals.com/  for Joni's Beach Rentals site by http://www.rental-network.com/ (June 16)
15. http://www.emeraldcoastresortrentals.com/ for  Emerald Coast Resort Rentals. (June 16)

St George Island

1. www.uncommonflorida.com Suncoast Realty site, two clicks to property list.
2. www.stgeorgeisland.com Prudential Resort Realty, semi-group search, useful home page, "Harbor House," and "St George Inn."
3. www.floridabeach.com Davie Ledbetter Real Estate but it's in Ft. Lauderdale.
4. www.collinsvacationrentals.com Collins Vacation Rentals, 2 clicks to property list and semi-group search, useful home page, lots of listings.
5. www.sgisland.com Gulf Coast Realty, two click to entire property list, grope and semi-grope searches, good site ***.

Brunswick, Jekyll, St Simons, Little St Simon, and Sea Island, Georgia, etc.

1. www.bgivb.com super meta site about Brunwick, Jekyll, St Simons, Little St Simons, and Sea Island.  Lists many property managers.

Cumberland Island and St Marys, Georgia

1. www.greyfieldinn.com The only place to stay on Cumberland Island.
2. www.stmaryswelcome.com Local area guide to St Marys, Georgia.

Jekyll Island, Georgia Hotels.

1. www.jekyllinn.com
2. www.motelproperties.com
3. www.beachviewclub.com

St Simons, Georgia

1. www.seaislandproperties.com Sea Island Properties, semi-grope search but you can see the whole list.
2. www.golden-isles-realty.com Golden Isles Real Estate Company, you can see the whole property list.
3. www.gacoastrealty.com Georgia Coast Realty, semi-grope and you can see the whole propertly list (Remind me to look at this: http://www.mattkruse.com/).
4. www.stsimonsdestinations.com This is a Resortquest site for St. Simons for Trupp-Hodnett Realtors.
5. www.parker-kaufman.com For Parker-Kaufman Realtors, straight forward, low tech site.
6. http://kingandprince.com/ for the King and Prince Resort.  Site by http://www.hotelwebsolutions.com/ (June 16)

Tybee Island, Georgia

1. www.tybeeislandrealty.com Tybee Island Realty, Straight forward, low tech, and OK **.
2. http://oceanplaza.com/  Ocean Plaza Beach Resort (June 16)

Hiawassee, Georgia (not on the beach but nice lake).

1. www.boundaryWatersresort.com a resort, marina, boat store, boat rentals on Chatuge Lake.

Charleston, Kiawah, Seabrook, Isle of Palms, Wild Dunes, South Carolina

1. www.greatbeach.com Kiawah, Seabrook, and Wild Dunes.
2. www.middletonplace.org is about Middleton Gardens, not a rental site.
3. www.islandrealty.com site doesn't work on 6-2-02.
4. www.kiawahresort.com/csi for Kiaway home and villas, more than 70 of them.
5. www.wingateinncharleston.com a hotel in North Charleson.
6. www.wilddunes.com I guess this is the main place to rent from at Wild Dunes on Sullivan's Island.
7. http://dunesproperties.com/ for Dunes Properties of Charleston (June 16)

Hilton Head, South Carolina - there is just too many sites and properties, it's overwhelming.  How many sites and agents can a renter manage?  Where should an owner list his site?

1. www.sunsetrentals.com semi-grope by Visual Data Systems, Inc. .
2. www.coastalhhi.com semi grope.
3. www.800beachme.com Hilton Head Vacation Rentals.  It has a great map at the top of the property list. Site by Cale Web Design **.
4. www.hiltonheadvacation.com Hilton Head Rentals and Golf, one click to rental listings.
5. www.advinn.com Adventure Inn, one click to property listing.
6. www.beach-property.com Beach Properties of Hilton Head, all the properties are on the home page.
7. www.seacoasthv.com SeaCoast Homes & Villas,  another Visual Data Systems site with a grope search.
8. www.shorelinerentals.com/news.html Shorline Rentals and Worthy Rentals, a Resortquest site for Hilton Head.
9. www.hhibeachandtennis.com Hilton Head Island Beach and Tennis Resort. Site by Brasch Consulting Services.
10. www.portroyalvillage.com for Port Royal Village, site by http://www.digitel.net/.
11. www.southbeachvillage.com for South Beach Marina Village, low tech but not about rentals, I like.
12. www.worthyrentals.com for Worthy Rentals, a ResortQuest grope and semi-grope.
13. www.seashorehhi.com Seashore Location, low tech.
14. www.vacationcompany.com  The Vacation Company lists "the finest luxury homes and villas" in Hilton Head, Barbados, and St Martin/Maarten. But you can view the Hilton Head Properties in one page and there are quite a few.  You can semi-group too.  Good site. **
15. www.oceanfrontrentals.com Oceanfront Rentals Company, an East West Resorts Company.  Another site by http://www.digitel.net/  
16. www.seapines.com For Sea Pines Resort, There is so much here it takes some clicking to find the listing, good site though.
17. http://www.hiltonheadisland.com/hhirealty/ Hilton Head Island Realty a low tech site for a few properties (June 16)
18. http://evergreenresorts.com/ for Evergreen Real Estate Company.  The site is nice comprehensive on not quite all there yet. (June 16)

Kiawah Island, South Carolina

1. www.greatbeach.com for Great Beach Vacations, an East West Resorts Company and covers all the near Charleston beaches.  Good semi-grope search.
2. www.kiawahexclusives.com  I'm getting tired of looking at all of these sites.

Lake Harwell, Lake Keowee, Georgia / South Carolina (not on beach, but ...)

• www.thelakestore.com you can definitely get right on the water, with a dock here.

Litchfield Beaches and Pawleys Island, South Carolina may be shabby but it's not cheap.

1. www.sandbarr.com for Sandbarr Real Estate Company.  Low tech, lists individual properties, I like it.
2. www.dietercompany.com for the Dieter Company by http://www.vdsys.com/ with semi-grope

Seabrook Island

1. www.seabrookexclusives.com low tech. I like it. **