Grace Palumbo, a
kindergarten teacher in Denver, has one goal right now: to get access to a
beach house.
“A Hamptons house is
one of the things I am manifesting, but I’m not picky,” Palumbo, 26, said. “It
can be Cape Cod, Long Beach Island, Jersey Shore.” Neither she nor her family
owns this type of real estate, so she is actively seeking a solution.
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When she scrolls
through men on dating apps, mostly Hinge, she searches for signs of summer
homes.
“Like, if they have a
beach in the background or their hometown is the Hamptons or Long Island, that
is something I take note of,” she said, laughing. “I also half-jokingly ask
them where they are summering.”
She believes in
putting her desires into the universe (and in newspapers).
“I’m writing in my
journal every day that I want a beach house, and I’m also telling as many
people as possible,” she said. “This is how things happen”.
She is making
progress: “I haven’t found anyone with Hampton houses yet, but I have found
people with houses in other parts of Long Island.”
Memorial Day is upon
us, and with this unofficial start of summer comes a scramble — for those who
have the privilege of not just taking vacations but being in proximity to
people who have properties devoted to them — to score invitations to summer
homes. Why pay for an expensive hotel or rental property, which can go for over
$1,000 a night in desirable locations like Montauk and Nantucket, when you have
a friend who can host you — maybe more than once, if you play your cards right?
“As a kindergarten
teacher, I am not in a position where I can afford a beach house, so finding
friends or boyfriends with those kinds of perks always makes it more fun,”
Palumbo said.
The topic has, not
surprisingly, come up on TikTok. At the beginning of May, Ella Kahan, who works
in social media for Saks Fifth Avenue, posted a video of beautiful Hamptons
scenes with the caption “A gentle reminder to start being nice to your friends
with hampton houses.”
Kahan, who grew up in
Manhattan, has often had access to Hamptons houses. But she sees friends,
especially those new to the city, hustle for invites this time of year.
“It’s a scramble to
find one,” she said. “Everyone wants to be by a pool.”
Kahan, 26, posted her
TikTok video as a joke, but the responses were serious.
“People were like,
‘How do I find these friends?’ or ‘How do you do it?’” she said. She takes an
honest approach: “You have to find some sort of connection, like a friend of a
friend.”
The thinly veiled
casual hellos might feel suspicious to the lucky owners of a summer house (or
people with primary homes in summer-positive locales).
“When I post pictures
of my Hamptons house, now I get 10 to 12 different people messaging me to be
like, ‘Oh, my God, let’s catch up’ or ‘I need to see you this summer. When can
we get together?’” said a fashion entrepreneur who has a seven-bedroom house in
Sag Harbor.
The entrepreneur, 39,
who requested that her name not be published for fear of offending the people
of whom she spoke, has had her Hamptons house for three years, and said the
messages were becoming an annual occurrence.
“I can just tell when
people I haven’t heard from in six months are texting me all the time right
before Memorial Day weekend,” she said.
She has had more
people reach out this year than ever, and she thinks looming recession fears
are a factor.
“People aren’t
spending as much money on travel,” she said. Indeed, the Hamptons currently has
double the number of homes available to rent than it did last year, as
prospective tenants cut back. According to the US Travel Association, an
industry group, hotel room demand is below March 2019 levels for the first time
in months (even if AAA is estimating an 11 percent increase in air travel over
the Memorial Day weekend compared with last year’s also hectic summer. Perhaps
those travelers are flying to stay in friends’ or family members’ homes).
Some people with
summer homes are finding ways to avoid playing host altogether.
In July 2020, Lindsay
Tyrpien, 33, creative director of an art gallery in Manhattan, bought a 1920s
farmhouse in Livingston Manor, New York, a picturesque town about two hours
upstate. She and her wife, Magdalena Tyrpien, 34, a biotech executive, did a
gut renovation of the 1,200-square-foot space and decided to knock out the
second bedroom altogether; instead they have one very large bedroom and office
space. (The couple also rents out the home.)
“We are both so busy
in our professional lives that we cherish being able to spend that time
together,” Lindsay Tyrpien said. “It’s just nice to go up there and be by
ourselves and not even have the option to host.”
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