Here's a tiny, but totally quintessential, conch cottage in the old heart of Key West, for a not-so-tiny month's rent of $3,500. It's only 606 square feet, but with two bedrooms, 1.5 baths, a porch, and even a backyard plunge pool, it oozes charm.

For $4,500 a month, 901 Thomas is a gorgeously renovated Old Town Key West cottage, with yard, porch, and lots, and lots (and lots) of charm. It's part of a compound of two others that can be rented together or separately, including 901 Thomas. They share a pool

1304 White Street has two units, one renting for $1,900 a month and another for $1,800. Built in 1953, the building's not exactly super-historic, but hey, it's in old town and it looks cute and cottagy enough.

So, it's not historic, not a cottage, and far from old town, and it's in a random apartment community that makes an effort at the conch aesthetic with various colored building, but Apt. #20210E is a lot less expensive, modern, and still actually in Key West, where apartments are rare.

Part of a compound with 901 Thomas and one other, 903 is another cottage oozing charm out of every pore. The 993 square foot cottage was built in 1933. Porches and landscaped grounds accompany a shared pool.