"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"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

I am just over the hills from San Francisco Bay. So we get lots of 90
degree, low humitity days in the summer and colder winters. I have had ice
on the surface of the pool. Locally pools eliminate about 50% of the buyers
according to my friendly real estate broker. But is not a negative on the
selling price.