Empty Pool

[Don Clark]

B) My problem is not the empty pool, it's finding a comp with a pool. From about September until the end of May, most pools in my area are covered anyway, and I am not going to lift the cover to see if it is full or empty. That is an intrusive inspection, not a bisual inspection. Besides, my photo will show if it is empty or full. The danger thingee is not a big issue. More people, especially kids, get hurt from full pools than empty ones. Of course this is just my opinion, but heck, I get paid for that opinion everywhere but here

Once had a listing on a house with a big pool. No one would buy it. After many months the pool was filled(with sand), sold the next day. Pools are not a big item in my market, big yards and a safe place to play are.

Don Clark

 

[liznindy]

I agree with Phil....Pool without water is no more or less hazardous than one with water....How many kids have you heard of who have been killed by falling into an empty pool???? How many kids have drowned????

 

[Sean Wagle]

Maybe an empty pool adds value to a family with some "skate rats"!

 

[Frederick R. Ruffell]

Originally posted by liznindy@Jun 3 2003, 06:59 PM
I agree with Phil....Pool without water is no more or less hazardous than one with water....How many kids have you heard of who have been killed by falling into an empty pool???? How many kids have drowned????

So a pool (empty or otherwise) is only dangerous if it kills!!!!!!??????????????? Good god woman listen to yourself!!!!!! You are supposed to be the smarter sex.
Take a random 100 people and throw them into a water filled pool and count how many sustain injuries, now empty the pool and throw the same 100 people into the pool and count the injuries, now count the law suites your client will have to defend, now count the law suites your E&O carrier are NOT going to defend on your behalf because you (willfully) did not disclose the empty pool.

 

[liznindy]

You have a point there, Frederick.....I didn't think about the possibility of someone "throwing" 100 people into the emply pool. Is that a sport in San Diego? :lol:


Maybe you all utilize pools differently out there in LALA land than we do here in the heartland. We typically get in and swim around and if the pool is EMPTY we know better than to jump in!

I just don't think an empty pool is a greater hazard than a full one, Just MY Opinion.


Oh, and by the way, I don't agree that women are the SMARTER sex (where did you get that idea)...just the sex with more common sense. We women tend to think with our brains, not other body parts....well at least those of us who are over 30. (Have you ever seen Wild On? I am not sure what species those young women are from but I bet they are from California!)

Please take this in the spirit it is intended!!!

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

You go, Liz

By the way, what are you wearing? :rofl: :rofl:

 

[hal380]

This "Empty Pool" thing has takend on a life of its own.

Some alternative uses might be:

A worm farm
A compost bin
A climbing wall (charge admission and apply funds to repair pool)
An object D'art (SP?) let the observer "feel the power" of this creation.


Any other suggestions?

Hal

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Instead of calling it a empty pool, just call it an in-ground skate park. Of course, they will need expensive insurance either way.

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

:rofl:


Disclose, 'suggest' a professional inspection, give minimal value unless a professional inspection report is provided, take pictures and include them in the report.

Take each situation as it comes.

K.I.S.S. :wub:

 

[liznindy]

Sorry, Mike....We ladies over 30 (ok, I'm slightly over 40) aren't so easy! Dinner and a movie first, please