Cooke Realtors offers a selection of family oriented vacation properties for rental. All homes have a well equipped kitchen, porch furniture, washer/dryer, can opener, ice maker, and coffee maker. Occupancy is limited to the number of sleeping spaces in a cottage. Cooke Realty agents also assist in buying and selling homes on the island/mainland.

Ocean Isle Beach has a water slide, golf courses, and fishing pier. A nonprofit program called Turtle Watch goes on at Caswell Beach, where volunteers help monitor turtle nestings. Art galleries, antique shops, historical sites, museums, amusement parks, go-cart tracks, solfmusic theaters, deep sea fishing, and health spas are nearby.