About Us

Marla and Jamie are the proud owners of Cooper's Cottage and Max's Beach Retreat.

We met in the classic modern way, we were an "office romance" which stared in the early 90's and has blossomed into a lifelong partnership of love and mutual adoration. (no sarcasm there at all) Marla visited Cherry Grove with her sister several times in the early 2000's and fell in love with the "cute little beach town", the beach, and all of the spots she could go crabbing and enjoy the quiet. Jamie loves to play golf, he came down once and immediately fell in love with all of the golf courses, nothing else to say about that.

We have two cute little Shih Tzu's, Cooper and Max, can you guess how we decided to name the houses?

We make our permanent residence in Alexandria Virginia but travel quite a bit and will be moving to SC sometime soon. For work, Marla is an innovation expert for a large software company and Jamie is a sales executive for a publishing company. Marla was born and raised in sunny South Florida and Jamie is from the cold, dreary, Detroit area. Go Blue. 

We take special pride in our guest's experience with us, we love hosting and we do our best to keep the houses as perfect as we can, we are kind of obsessed with it. We would love to have you stay with us, if you'd like to talk to some of our former guests we can put you in touch, you can also check out our reviews.

Cheers and See you Soon,

Marla and Jamie