1.   At first glance, the average New Yorker might not equate Westport, Conn., with summer rentals.

2.   A second house or summer rental beckons with choice.

3.   Compared with the cost of summer rentals, there are relative bargains to be had.

4.   End machines were as hard to come by as summer rentals with ocean views.

5.   Even so, when I first laid eyes on my summer rental, decent by surf share standards, I was somewhat taken aback.

6.   Like well-mannered guests in a summer rental, the Portuguese are spending their last days tidying up after themselves.

7.   Middle-aged writers, smoldering like the red coals on the outdoor grills of the summer rentals they cannot afford to own.

8.   No one who has braved the market for a summer rental needs to be told that the Hamptons get more aggressively trendy each year.

9.   Some property owners who had hoped to cash in on summer rentals have seen their lessees walk away because their sublease deals fell through.

10.   Still, Bon Jovi said, Cohen recently went out of his way to line up a summer rental in Long Island, N.Y.