Eight apartments and cottages around a shared courtyard, on a short residential street three minutes from the sand and about ten from the Pismo Pier.
Pismo Cove runs the full depth of its lot, from Ocean View Avenue on the beach side through to Park Avenue behind. There are eight homes in four buildings, all opening onto one paved courtyard, and the property has been on this block since 1928.
The two-story building at the Ocean View end has two upstairs apartments over three single-car garages, the laundry room and storage. A single-story fourplex faces the courtyard behind it, and two detached cottages finish the row at the Park Avenue end. The mix is two two-bedrooms, five one-bedrooms and a studio.
Every home has its own red front door and its own parking space or garage. The beach is at the end of the street, and the pier and downtown are about ten minutes on foot.
Owned by Pismo Cove, LLC. Managed by Glenn Martin Company, Arroyo Grande.
The buildings are mid-century California: white stucco, deep flat roof lines, an upper floor cantilevered over the garages, and black-and-cream striped awnings over the windows. The cottages have the same awnings and trim, and every front door on the property is painted the same red.
Building One from Ocean View Avenue
Red doors along the courtyard walkway
The front door of Apartment 1Inside, the apartments are plain and bright: white walls, wood-look floors in several of the homes, and windows onto the courtyard or the deck walkway. Outside, palms line the courtyard path and the walkways are bordered with hedges and flowering beds.
The garages under Building One, from the drivewayA paver patio under mature palms sits in the middle of the property, with tables and chairs under red umbrellas, a barbecue, and an outdoor shower for rinsing off sand. The paths from the garages, the fourplex and the cottages all meet there.
The driveway, parking and the two-story building sit at the beach end; the fourplex runs along the far side; the cottages close the Park Avenue end; the patio is in the middle. Hover or tap a building for a note, or select it for its floor plan.
Drag the plan sideways to see all of it.
Apartments 1 and 2 are upstairs in the two-story building at the Ocean View end, sharing a deck walkway on the courtyard side with a stair at either end. Three single-car garages, the laundry room and storage sit underneath.
Apartments 3 to 6 make up a single-story row running from the driveway to the cottages. Each apartment has its own front door on the courtyard walkway.
Numbers 7 and 8 are two detached cottages at the Park Avenue end: a studio and a one-bedroom, each with a stoop of its own.
One space for every apartment: three single-car garages under Building One, three uncovered spaces on the Ocean View side (two at the end of the driveway beside the fourplex, one where the lot wraps around Building One beside Apartment 1) and two off-street spaces at the Park Avenue end.
Square footages are approximate and are not a survey; the drawings on the floor plans page show the layout of each one.
| Apartment | Type | Approx. size |
|---|---|---|
| Apartment 1 | One bedroom · one bath | 610 sq ft |
| Apartment 2 | Two bedroom · two bath | 725 sq ft |
| Apartment 3 | Two bedroom · two bath | 635 sq ft |
| Apartment 4 | One bedroom · one bath | 415 sq ft |
| Apartment 5 | One bedroom · one bath | 468 sq ft |
| Apartment 6 | One bedroom · one bath | 368 sq ft |
| Cottage 7 | Studio · one bath | 300 sq ft |
| Cottage 8 | One bedroom · one bath | 385 sq ft |
Pismo Cove is in the older beach neighborhood south of the pier, where the streets are short and end at the ocean. Walk out onto Ocean View Avenue, turn toward the water, and you are on the sand in about three minutes. In the other direction, downtown, the pier and Price Street are all inside a ten-minute walk.
Pismo Beach is a small town on a long beach. The weather barely changes through the year, the pier is a ten-minute walk, and most everyday errands can be done on foot.
Mild all year. Afternoon highs run from about 65°F in December to 76°F in September, with cool nights and a sea breeze most days. The rain comes between November and April; the rest of the year is dry.
Pismo State Beach starts at the end of Ocean View Avenue: wide, flat sand that runs for miles in both directions, about three minutes on foot from the front door.
The Pismo Pier has stood at the foot of Pomeroy Avenue since 1924 and was renovated end to end in 2018. The farmers market sets up on Pier Plaza at its base on Wednesday afternoons.
Pomeroy, Cypress and Price Street are eight to ten minutes on foot. Clam chowder at Splash Cafe, breakfast at Old West Cinnamon Rolls, a beer at Pismo Brewing, and a dozen other places are marked on the map above.
Monarch butterflies winter in the eucalyptus grove at Pismo State Beach from November to February, a mile down the coast. The Pismo Beach Clam Festival takes over downtown for a weekend every October, as it has for eighty years.
The Pismo Preserve is 880 acres of open hills above town with more than eleven miles of trail, open dawn to dusk. It is a six-minute drive; the trailhead is on Mattie Road, just off the highway.
Highway 101 is three minutes away. Arroyo Grande Village is six minutes, San Luis Obispo is eighteen, and Cal Poly is about twenty.
Ocean View Avenue is a short residential street in the older beach neighborhood south of the pier. It runs toward the water and ends near the sand. The neighbors are single homes, small apartment buildings and beach cottages.
From the deck walkway on Building One you look out over the palms along the street and the rooftops of the block.
With only eight homes, a vacancy at Pismo Cove is an occasional thing. When one opens it is posted on the Glenn Martin Company vacancies page with photographs and rent, and the application is taken online. Use the form to join the waitlist or to ask about the property.
Glenn Martin Company
Property Management
407-B Traffic Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
Office (805) 234-5912
Email info@glennmartincompany.com
Property manager: Sam Brennan, Real Estate Broker
CA DRE #02178674
Owner: Pismo Cove, LLC
