![]() If you're going to keep the pool, make sure it has a fence. Also we have a very strict no kids in the pool area without a grownup - penalty is no pool for a week. In addition to a good fence, for safety I recommend getting a swim vest until little ones can swim. There is no question that it is a luxury but so wonderful. It’s easy to fit in 20 mins, but not 2 hours especially on weekdays. Our kids (11 and 4) also love it because we can swim almost every day and going to a public pool was not a frequent thing before. At home, I go out pretty much every day and I feel so free and relaxed in it and wander around the backyard in a swimsuit. There is always an element of worrying about my appearance in a public setting. As a woman, it has been incredibly freeing. (Not nearly 20k though!) Even though it is really only for 3 months a year, I love it. And we hired a pool company to do chemicals. I’ve put a ton of labor into cleaning rust stains. Had to replace the filter and it will need repainting next year probably. I bought a house with an old pool needing some work this past spring. If you manage a 7% return it's over $76k. If you invested the $20k and got a modest 3% return in 20 years you'd have $36k. According to a quick googling, the average cost of a new in ground pool is only a couple thousand dollars more ![]() Unless you genuinely love your pool and $20k is going to get your pool so nice it's practically brand spanking new, I'd have serious questions about the practicality of that. If there's a community pool or YMCA that costs $400 a year, you could (if I'm doing the math right without the benefit of having finished my morning coffee) have a membership for 50 years for that cost. I'm generally back and forth over whether I should have bought a house with a pool because of its cost in my time and money, not because of any safety concerns.Īll of that said, $20k is a shit ton of money. I'm going to assume you have had the pool for a while and know how much work it takes. Ironically, it's the 8 year old who I have the most trouble with because he's at the age where he's testing boundaries. ![]() Even the 4 year old was respectful of the rules around the pool, namely you don't go in the fence unless you're with an adult. But my brother and I are close and he has three kids from 8-4. My daughter is 7, she was 6 when we first used the pool. ![]()
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