"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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It removes about 50% of the buyers from what I understand. Others want
the pool, so is a plus $$$ for them. Years ago the people down the street
adopted 7 Ethiopian children. He was a physicist at the Livermore labs so
he was strange. Instead of getting a swimming teacher for the kids, they
filled in the pool with dirt and planted lawn over it. They moved a
couple years later to the Central Valley for more room. When it gets to
be 100 degrees here, I bet those kids would have preferred an nice pool
over a lawn.


It depends on the location. Our former house had a pool and we were
thinking at one point of pulling up stakes and moving (to California of all
places). We got an appraisal on the value of the house and were surprised
that the pool was actually a negative. Less than 20 percent of buyers in
the Northeast wanted a pool. (can't blame 'em).

I ended up filling it in. I also turned down the job in California.

Oh.... then we bought this house. First major addition was a pool. Go
figure.

Eisboch