On Jan 28, 11:07*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:44:28 -0500, BAR wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:46 -0500, HK wrote:

Three bedroom, 2-1/2 bath house. Under $25,000 brand
new. Those were the days.

It would have been more in a good neighborhood.

My parents bought a 4 bedroom 2-1/2 bath center hall colonial in 1971
for $41,500. This was far outside the beltway.

I bought a 4 br 2 1/2 for $31k in 1971 in Clinton Md. My ex still
lives there. Zillow says it is worth $318k now.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/bi...424777_zpid/#b...

My first house I bought for $25000 in 1969 is zillow at $466k now. *But
zillow is wrong on the number of bedrooms, unless somebody changed the
house. *Was 3 bed, 2 bath when we had it. *Sold it for $79k in 1979.

Funny about Zillow. *My house is one of the bigger in the neighborhood, and
is listed at less than the 500 sq ft smaller home across the street. *And
the same basic house 5 down the street just sold for $789k and mine has both
an extra 450' family room and a pool.- Hide quoted text -

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Yeah, they are way off in my neighborhood, too. I've got one of the
newest houses in the area, etc. By the way, they don't give you
anything in value for a pool, it's a wash because some people may not
want the pool. But I know I sure like mine!

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On Jan 28, 11:07 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:44:28 -0500, BAR wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:46 -0500, HK wrote:

Three bedroom, 2-1/2 bath house. Under $25,000 brand
new. Those were the days.

It would have been more in a good neighborhood.

My parents bought a 4 bedroom 2-1/2 bath center hall colonial in 1971
for $41,500. This was far outside the beltway.

I bought a 4 br 2 1/2 for $31k in 1971 in Clinton Md. My ex still
lives there. Zillow says it is worth $318k now.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/bi...424777_zpid/#b...

My first house I bought for $25000 in 1969 is zillow at $466k now. But
zillow is wrong on the number of bedrooms, unless somebody changed the
house. Was 3 bed, 2 bath when we had it. Sold it for $79k in 1979.

Funny about Zillow. My house is one of the bigger in the neighborhood, and
is listed at less than the 500 sq ft smaller home across the street. And
the same basic house 5 down the street just sold for $789k and mine has
both
an extra 450' family room and a pool.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, they are way off in my neighborhood, too. I've got one of the
newest houses in the area, etc. By the way, they don't give you
anything in value for a pool, it's a wash because some people may not
want the pool. But I know I sure like mine!

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.

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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

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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.

On Jan 29, 2:17*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:28:32 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Jan 28, 11:07*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:44:28 -0500, BAR wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:46 -0500, HK wrote:

Three bedroom, 2-1/2 bath house. Under $25,000 brand
new. Those were the days.

It would have been more in a good neighborhood.

My parents bought a 4 bedroom 2-1/2 bath center hall colonial in 1971
for $41,500. This was far outside the beltway.

I bought a 4 br 2 1/2 for $31k in 1971 in Clinton Md. My ex still
lives there. Zillow says it is worth $318k now.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/bi...424777_zpid/#b....

My first house I bought for $25000 in 1969 is zillow at $466k now. *But
zillow is wrong on the number of bedrooms, unless somebody changed the
house. *Was 3 bed, 2 bath when we had it. *Sold it for $79k in 1979.

Funny about Zillow. *My house is one of the bigger in the neighborhood, and
is listed at less than the 500 sq ft smaller home across the street. *And
the same basic house 5 down the street just sold for $789k and mine has both
an extra 450' family room and a pool.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, they are way off in my neighborhood, too. I've got one of the
newest houses in the area, etc. By the way, they don't give you
anything in value for a pool, it's a wash because some people may not
want the pool. But I know I sure like mine!

Umm... That's not a swimming pool, Loogster. It's a failed leeching
field.- Hide quoted text -

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Tell me, asshole, what do you know about me, where I live, my pool, or
anything for that matter?

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Yeah, they are way off in my neighborhood, too. I've got one of the
newest houses in the area, etc. By the way, they don't give you
anything in value for a pool, it's a wash because some people may not
want the pool. But I know I sure like mine!



Speaking of pool construction:

Sam likes it.

http://www.eisboch.com/poolconstruction.html

Eisboch