If a prospective house backed onto a community pool...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. That was absolutely my reaction, too, when the listing agent told me about it. I asked her if I would then be hearing the noise from the pool when I was in the backyard, and she looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "No one else has ever asked that. Everyone else is happy that it would be such a short walk for their kids." I guess she was bullshitting me!

+1. she was bullshitting you. at the very least it may be more difficult to resell. I would not consider it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. That was absolutely my reaction, too, when the listing agent told me about it. I asked her if I would then be hearing the noise from the pool when I was in the backyard, and she looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "No one else has ever asked that. Everyone else is happy that it would be such a short walk for their kids." I guess she was bullshitting me!

OP, realtors are notorious liars. They'll do anything for a sale. We were looking at a house that was a few blocks from the beltway. I said I wanted to go into the backyard (rather than look at it from inside the house) to see if we could hear any noise. Well, yes, we could clearly and fairly loudly hear the rumble of traffic and cars. Our realtor looked me dead in the eye and said, "What noise? I don't hear a thing."

Noise in the backyard when you are next to a community pool would be intolerable. You would never be able to use your backyard peacefully in the summer.

Hilarious!

[Anonymous]

Another absolutely not. The realtor is an idiot and I can't imagine too many people happy with the noise.

[Anonymous]

No way! Even without swim meets, I wouldn't want to give up my peace and privacy.

[Anonymous]

It depends. We have a neighborhood pool that is pretty quiet - no swim team, not many kids. I wouldn't mind living in one of the houses that backs to the pool, but there's no way of knowing what it's like until summer.

[Anonymous]

Are you nuts? Is this your dream home in all other respects? I would PASS!!

[Anonymous]

Our pool is open until 8 and also has evening events.
Dinners. Jazz. Teen parties. Birthday parties. Cookouts.

[Anonymous]

Big negative most likely.

[Anonymous]

It depends - I wouldn't mind a couple of the houses near our pool, but there are lots of trees, so it would only be the sound. But that is the aga/stage I'm at now. I might change my mind in 10 years when my kids are all gone.

I'd rather have a pool than the baseball fields/rec center. the pool noise radius is shorter than a high school noise! I can hear the local high school on friday nights and I'm a good 2 miles from the school. I can't imagine what it's like for the subdivisions near the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd love to be close, but not that close, to a pool. Noise would be my first issue, but not the only one.

+1

I was a lifeguard at our pool in high school. Saturday and Sunday mornings we would arrive to find all kinds of activity had taken place overnight and that the neighbors just over the fence had had to call the police AGAIN to chase out the high school kids who had climbed the fence to skinny dip. Occasionally, we would find piles of abandoned clothes and wonder how that kid had managed to get home without his/her things.