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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's silly at all. If I loved a house with a pool, I would absolutely consider filling it in. Maybe if we lived somewhere warm year-round I'd feel differently, but there is too much liability involved in owning a pool when you only can enjoy it for 3 months out of the year.

3 months out of the year?? Even the big public pools are open longer than that. Our last home had a pool. Private smaller home pools are very different. They're nearly all heated. We used it close to 8 months a year. It was wonderful!

In this area, no they are only open June, July and August. Some rare pools will open before Memorial Day and stay open a few weeks after Labor Day but I have mostly seen that in apartment complexes.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's silly at all. If I loved a house with a pool, I would absolutely consider filling it in. Maybe if we lived somewhere warm year-round I'd feel differently, but there is too much liability involved in owning a pool when you only can enjoy it for 3 months out of the year.

3 months out of the year?? Even the big public pools are open longer than that. Our last home had a pool. Private smaller home pools are very different. They're nearly all heated. We used it close to 8 months a year. It was wonderful!

We filled ours in--it was very tough to find someone to do this (we did it 7 years ago). We live in Fairfax. The contractor was AW Landscaping from Rockville. The did great work--we have had NO issues with sinkholes or anything. At that time it cost us 11-12,000$ total. This is with grass seed only--no fancy landscaping. Let me know if you have any other questions.
We love our big yard and going to the community pool just a 2 minute walk away! That is where you meet people and you have to belong if you want to do swim team, which is very popular here. We also loved that when the kids were little we could go to the pool for an hour and come home--with no work to do.

Our neighbors heat theirs. It's awesome!!!

I don't think it's silly at all. If I loved a house with a pool, I would absolutely consider filling it in. Maybe if we lived somewhere warm year-round I'd feel differently, but there is too much liability involved in owning a pool when you only can enjoy it for 3 months out of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to do it? Just stop please, leave this house for someone who can appreciate it. We bought a house because it had a pool, it was an attraction point for us.

Weird post. The pool is not an appendage of the house. You can love the house and hate the pool, especially around here where having a pool is kind of silly.

why is it silly, the summers are long and hot as hell, nothing is better on a hot humid day than to be in the water. If you have a private pool, it must be very nice.

Silly because this isn't Florida or California. There are many many months where pools sit dormant. There are public pool options aplenty. And (at least inside the Beltway) land is not plentiful enough that it makes sense to take up so much of the backyard with something that can only be used a few months of the year.

my parents recently filled in their pool (expensive to maintain, and really only the dog used it. and it's not safe if you have little kids around and pools are generally considered a liability when selling a house.) it cost about $20,000, BUT they did a lot of landscaping as well.

10k in a sale transaction; shop around and it's 7k or so when you end up hiring someone (in the off season).

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to do it? Just stop please, leave this house for someone who can appreciate it. We bought a house because it had a pool, it was an attraction point for us.

Weird post. The pool is not an appendage of the house. You can love the house and hate the pool, especially around here where having a pool is kind of silly.

silly?

We have a pool, and it's saved my sanity over the summer b/c it's where the kids hang out. So I KNOW where my kids are!

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to do it? Just stop please, leave this house for someone who can appreciate it. We bought a house because it had a pool, it was an attraction point for us.

Weird post. The pool is not an appendage of the house. You can love the house and hate the pool, especially around here where having a pool is kind of silly.

why is it silly, the summers are long and hot as hell, nothing is better on a hot humid day than to be in the water. If you have a private pool, it must be very nice.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to do it? Just stop please, leave this house for someone who can appreciate it. We bought a house because it had a pool, it was an attraction point for us.

Weird post. The pool is not an appendage of the house. You can love the house and hate the pool, especially around here where having a pool is kind of silly.

Why would you want to do it? Just stop please, leave this house for someone who can appreciate it. We bought a house because it had a pool, it was an attraction point for us.

I'd heard ballpark $10k when I was looking too.

FWIW, it was a dealbreaker for us when we were looking (did not want one, had little kids and were worried, etc.)

I do not know for sure, but our agent has told us not to discount a home becuase it has a pool. I *think* she said it costs about $10-12k to fill in a pool, grade the yard, etc. Again, not 100% certain, but that is what is in my head at the moment. Hopefully someone else can chime in. Oh, FWIW I am in Vienna.

We are considering making an offer on a house with a pool, which we weren't really looking for. Does anyone know what it might cost to fill in and how the process works?