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re: Bigger wealth status symbol-backyard pool or boat?
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:37 pm to CunningLinguist
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:37 pm to CunningLinguist
I swim in my pool on my boat, that I dock in my yard pool……
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Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:47 pm to Klark Kent
I will never understand ppl who get pools and they’re tiny like this. It’s a glorified hot tub that you can’t even dive in.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:49 pm to CunningLinguist
quote:
boat
More of a sign of stupidity. Definitely, NOT a wealth status symbol.
Two best days of owning a boat:
1. the day you buy it
2. the day you sell it.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:49 pm to CunningLinguist
Wife and I are looking at building a house in the next 3-5 years. We are looking at building a nice pool. Nothing to do with financials.
I want to be that house all the kids want to go to. Because if they want to be there I can keep an eye out easier for what’s going on. I’ll take the financial bad decision for the hopeful mental ease.
Screw having a boat. The best boat is someone else’s boat.
I want to be that house all the kids want to go to. Because if they want to be there I can keep an eye out easier for what’s going on. I’ll take the financial bad decision for the hopeful mental ease.
Screw having a boat. The best boat is someone else’s boat.
This post was edited on 10/2/23 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:55 pm to CunningLinguist
quote:
boat
You can't tow a pool
Posted on 10/2/23 at 2:56 pm to CunningLinguist
Boat. A pool is regularly useful.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 3:02 pm to ob1pimpbobi
how is a pool a money pit? new pools are expensive AF to build but dont cost very much in maintenance and run cost.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 3:11 pm to lsu777
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w is a pool a money pit? new pools are expensive AF to build but dont cost very much in maintenance and run cost.
The problem with pools is they don’t add nearly the value to a home that they cost.
We put in a pool. It’s a gunnite with pavers for the deck. It added approximately $25K value to our house. It cost $70K. We knew this but wife and kids were insistent. It is nice for my house to be where the kids want to go. I know where they are and who they are hanging with.
A liner pool was less expensive, but added almost no value to home.
ETA: power bill went up about $200 per month. Pool service $175 per month.
This post was edited on 10/2/23 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 10/2/23 at 3:17 pm to XenScott
quote:
The problem with pools is they don’t add nearly the value to a home that they cost.
We put in a pool. It’s a gunnite with pavers for the deck. It added approximately $25K value to our house. It cost $70K. We knew this but wife and kids were insistent. It is nice for my house to be where the kids want to go. I know where they are and who they are hanging with.
A liner pool was less expensive, but added almost no value to home.
ETA: power bill went up about $200 per month. Pool service $175 per month.
lucky it added anything. i tell people do not put in a pool unless you absolutely dont plan to sell anytime soon.
it attracts some buyers, scares others.
i have gunnite at 2 homes now, didnt add 200 a month to my power bill, not even 100. I do my own service, spend less than an hour a week and less than 100 a month in chemicals
now i had a problem in may/june with metals getting into the water, that cost me about 300 after everythign said and done get everythign right.
pools cost money but not a ton if you do your own servicing.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 3:29 pm to CunningLinguist
A few Louisiana-themed status symbols that come to mind are...
LSU Football season tickets
A camp in Grand Isle
Truck nuts
LSU Football season tickets
A camp in Grand Isle
Truck nuts
Posted on 10/2/23 at 4:08 pm to Flashback
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Both and a helicopter.
I thought a customer taking a helicopter from a spot on his property to another spot on his property that took us 8 minutes to drive was a flex, turns out having a white gardener in south Texas was his big flex.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 4:14 pm to armsdealer
Pool is used way more often in the south.
Hardly anyone my age has a boat. Only old men have them.
Hardly anyone my age has a boat. Only old men have them.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 4:24 pm to CunningLinguist
My yacht has its own baby yacht
Posted on 10/2/23 at 4:33 pm to CunningLinguist
I have both and the boat is docked at the condo!
Posted on 10/2/23 at 5:20 pm to BigBinBR
quote:
You aren’t wealthy until you have a pool on your boat.
And someone who maintains both of them for you.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 12:51 am to CunningLinguist
Nothing is a bigger status symbol than having a boat with a pool on it and an in ground pool large enough for it to fit in.
This post was edited on 10/3/23 at 12:52 am
Posted on 10/3/23 at 6:00 am to Supermoto Tiger
Nowhere near true anymore. My boat is worth double what I paid for it in early 2020.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 6:11 am to sidewalkside
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The real wealthy have both. The losers have to chose one or the other.
Son of a bitch, I don’t have a pool or a boat.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 6:17 am to momentoftruth87
quote:
I will never understand ppl who get pools and they’re tiny like this. It’s a glorified hot tub that you can’t even dive in.
Yards are small. Its not for swimming. Its for cooling off.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 6:44 am to CunningLinguist
If they have both and are NOT financed; winners.
If they financed either; losers (non-winners).
If they financed either; losers (non-winners).
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