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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Value of Swimming Pools
Message-ID: <330@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 10:20:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: cylixd.330
Posted: Mon Sep 30 10:20:47 1985
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Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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>>  	 ...improvements make for a high appreciation rate, and others 
>> 	    actually detract from the value of a house, such
>> 	    as, for instance, an inground swimming pool)
>> 
>Why is this the case?  It seems counter-intuitive to me.
>

Depends on where you live. In California, where the weather is nice
almost all year, you can't sell a house WITHOUT a swimming pool.
Here in Memphis it's different. It's only warm enough to swim 3 or
4 months out of the year (a heated pool will extend it to about 6 months);
therefore, most people don't care to have a pool. In fact, most people
here HATE pools, because of the constant care that they require in
return for 4 months of use.

I speak from experience. When we bought our first house, nothing would
do me but to have a pool. After the first year I grew to HATE that thing!
I swore never to get another house with one, because even if you didn't
use it you had to chlorinate it constantly in order to keep new life
forms from growing in your back yard. (Toads were a problem in this area
too.)

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Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)

(The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect 
those of RCA Cylix. They may not even reflect my own.)


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