Tampa Bay Real Estate Blog

With the summer sun in the Tampa Bay area comes pools and beaches.  Pools are great because they are convenient, usually out your backdoor or within your community, and are typically clean and safe.  Beaches are great as well because they have that crashing sound of the waves, long sandy strips, warm water and usually safe as well.  When people go shopping in the Tampa Real Estate Market, I usually hear "Pool Required" when setting requirements for their new home.  Are you sure that is really what you want.  With pools comes pool cleaners, electricity, chemicals, maintenance, etc.  That pool that you just wrapped up in your shinny new mortgage is going to keep costing you year after year, day after day.  My neighbors on either side of me have pools and I must say, I see them in their pools maybe, and I said maybe, once a month.  Is that price tag worth the swim once a month?  For me, no.

I was like them when I first moved here to Tampa, I thought I wanted a pool and I thought I wanted a boat (that's another blog post)...but now, for the amount of use I would give it due to my busy schedule...no way...I'll hit the free beach.

So when you are setting your requirements about that new house, and you find that perfect house butt doesn't already have a pool, think about it.  Is that pool really required...you decided!