Above ground pool - remove before selling?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sold a house with a nice above ground pool that you could enter from the deck on the back of the house. Buyer's loved it but ended up taking it out a few years later. This was in a very nice neighborhood of expensive houses. No big deal. Above ground pools are easy to remove as any halfwit buyer would know.

My old house has had above ground pools in yard since 1960s.
The 1960s/1970s pool I found out was famous as owners had no fence and let whole neighborhood use it. We had a big back slider where mom loved to give out fresh chocolate chip cookies and lemonade all summer. So many neighbors in their 50s used to tell happy stories. Sometimes 20-40 kids in yard.

That mom from 1960s was Mrs. Breakstone. Yes the real one you see her butter in the supermarkets. She sold off Breakstone for one billion a very long time ago. So yes a billionaire owned by old house and had an above ground pool.

But guess at DCUM we are too good for it

Are you drunk?
Here’s the real story about Breakstone’s.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-very-jewish-history-of-breakstones-butter/amp/

LOL I love it. I’m pretty sure that PP is the one whose wife cried about one of their buyers wanting to have an above pool removed as a condition of sale. I’ve been waiting for him to post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep it and offer to remove it if the buyer doesn't want it. I'd want it.

This. You really don't know who might find the transitional/temporary nature of an above ground pool appealing. Make clear that it will be removed as a condition of sale, if buyer prefers. It's also a way to chisel down a few dollars if the the buyer wants to play that game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keep it and offer to remove it if the buyer doesn't want it. I'd want it.

This. You really don't know who might find the transitional/temporary nature of an above ground pool appealing. Make clear that it will be removed as a condition of sale, if buyer prefers. It's also a way to chisel down a few dollars if the the buyer wants to play that game.

Disagree. A lot of people won't even look at a house with a pool, even "easy to remove" above ground pools. They are cheap looking and they cheapen the entire aesthetic of a home and the entire neighborhood. Remove it before you list it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sold a house with a nice above ground pool that you could enter from the deck on the back of the house. Buyer's loved it but ended up taking it out a few years later. This was in a very nice neighborhood of expensive houses. No big deal. Above ground pools are easy to remove as any halfwit buyer would know.

My old house has had above ground pools in yard since 1960s.
The 1960s/1970s pool I found out was famous as owners had no fence and let whole neighborhood use it. We had a big back slider where mom loved to give out fresh chocolate chip cookies and lemonade all summer. So many neighbors in their 50s used to tell happy stories. Sometimes 20-40 kids in yard.

That mom from 1960s was Mrs. Breakstone. Yes the real one you see her butter in the supermarkets. She sold off Breakstone for one billion a very long time ago. So yes a billionaire owned by old house and had an above ground pool.

But guess at DCUM we are too good for it

Are you drunk?
Here’s the real story about Breakstone’s.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-very-jewish-history-of-breakstones-butter/amp/

LOL I love it. I’m pretty sure that PP is the one whose wife cried about one of their buyers wanting to have an above pool removed as a condition of sale. I’ve been waiting for him to post.

But my buyer bought it Because of pool. The buyer loved it so much he put a huge wooden raised deck around it with chairs and stone work then put lights and stuff. My old neighbor told me. I saw it on Google maps. That was a 21 foot round top of line 52 inch pool I bought brand new in 2011. The 2018 buyer was crazy he wanted it removed pre-closing. Then he did not close anyhow due to inspection and he needed 20k more as he admitted he was short money.

You only need one buyer. My pool was fully permitted and professionally installed with six foot Solid PVC fence around yard with self closing gates. My new one I sunk.

Most DCUM people are lazy. Anything like a pool, is too much work and they run. They also heavy dual income.

A traditional family with a husband, SAHM and 2-3 young kids loves this set up as gives kids something fun to do all summer, not dangerous like in ground and when kids gone can easily remove down the road. Safer as my old above ground five feet tall with a swinging ladder that locked. No little kid could fall in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sold my house above ground pool. I went and got a quote of $500 to have it removed in writing. I told first buyer who did not want it I have the quote and at closing will hand you a check for $500 made out to pool company to remove it.

He bailed on something else. Second buyer really wanted pool as he had a two year old and four year old and being above ground and with safety ladder can’t fall in. So sold it as selling point.

My current house has an “above ground pool” in. I say it cost $20,000. It is semi inground meaning sunk four feet deep, had beautiful stone work around pool and a trex deck with steps and is salt water.

It adds zero to my property taxes. I maintain it myself super easy. If new owned does not want it I guess we don’t want them.

If we did remove it I would fill in dirt use pavers and put fire pit or gazebo in middle. Or maybe Jaquezzi by steps I have.

I am not selling so not worried resale.

And I think first buyer old house was bluffing. I found out later he wanted cash directly and I know my pump and ladder equipment he could sell for $1,000 bucks. I think he was looking to use pool and pocket $500. I figured it out when we mentioned I would take equipment with me.

Did the 20K include decking and stone?

Yes. It was 120k for inground without stonework. However pool quote said would destroy part of fence and had to rip out three trees and most of lawn messed up. My prior owner spent a small fortune in yard with beautiful expensive designer trees, cherry blossoms, pear trees, willows. All bloom different times I squeezed semi inground into sunny patch equal distance between trees. I would have done inground did not want to destroy yard. I did not do above ground as would block view. Semi inground I have view and got it in without destroying yards.

I saw a few houses with swim spas, lap pools, etc when looking with sloping yards. My neighbors house across street has a huge slopping yard with tons of trees she got a quote 300k in ground pool. She is interested in doing what I did semi inground as one side she can have it walk in ground level and other side can be exposed. It allows the pool to be installed on a slope.

In Florida the large hotels have prefab fiberglass pools they dig a hole and pop in ground. They are really no different above ground pool.

Swim spas pre built in repurposed shipping containers are the new trendy above ground pool. I saw one the size of a one car garage for homes with no backyard or HOA. Kinda cool