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Selling a hot tub with a house

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drewstar:
Free house with the purchase of a hot tub!


Hot tub Price: $450,000.00

Vinny:

--- Quote ---C'mon, you guys call yourselves salesmen?  
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Nope, I ain't no salesman and don't you ever INSULT me like that again! ;D

Ok, I did sell my last house by myself and saved the money on the commission but I did it to clear more money since I was loosing money on the house to begin with ... but that's a whole different story.

I see tubs differently as most of the people I know who looked or bought a house with a tub don't "love" it. As a matter of fact out of the few people who I know of only one kept the tub after buying the house and the husband wanted to get rid of it but since it was inside and sunk into the floor, he wasn't willing to get rid of it. A couple of people actually took a saws all to it and got rid of it.

That's why I think it may only appeal to a certain buyer but the trend today is to have a tub so maybe going with the trend a tub can be a selling point.

ndabunka:

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Nope, I ain't no salesman and don't you ever INSULT me like that again! ;D

Ok, I did sell my last house by myself and saved the money on the commission but I did it to clear more money since I was loosing money on the house to begin with ... but that's a whole different story.

I see tubs differently as most of the people I know who looked or bought a house with a tub don't "love" it. As a matter of fact out of the few people who I know of only one kept the tub after buying the house and the husband wanted to get rid of it but since it was inside and sunk into the floor, he wasn't willing to get rid of it. A couple of people actually took a saws all to it and got rid of it.

That's why I think it may only appeal to a certain buyer but the trend today is to have a tub so maybe going with the trend a tub can be a selling point.
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Vinny - I think your point of reference may simply be "off".  I too have seen a number of older tubs that simply aren't worth the materials they are made of that have been simply "left behind" when the prior owners moved.  In some cases, they HAD to leave them because they would have fallen apart if they had attempted to move them.  Howver, that is not the type of tub in question here.  The original poster appears to have a welll made, name brand, recent model tub.  His tub does have value whereas those you rerferenced had no value (to anyone sans the prior owners).   I agree that even some "newer" tubs may have little value (a 3 year old Phoenix or Sunbelt for example).  In many of those cases, service is unavailable and the original company that sold them the spa may not even be in business anymore.

Vinny:
My view may be off. And I do agree that his tub is a working, clean and inviting tub not a POS that was left. My view is based on a working guy with a family who wasn't exposed to such luxuries as a tub growing up. It also comes from having children and sometimes living paycheck to paycheck but making sure my kids have what they need. No excess salary here!  Your life may be different.

When I was looking at houses the last thing I wanted was a house with a swimming pool. We saw houses where the pool was the backyard and there was very little area for the kids to play in.  Also, I was deterred by the amount of work that is required to maintain a pool. I now own a swimming pool where I live.

I believe that different areas and money brackets have different wants. My wife tells me that I get looks of puzzlement when I tell people I have a tub. Obviously the people I talk to a tub would be a deterent not a great thing. But that may be the mentality of living in Jersey and talking to blue collar and lower white collar people.

People with small children (I own a 4 bedroom house) may shy away do to the "danger".  We all know that water and kids can be a problem.

Upkeep, we all know that it is relatively easy to maintain but someone without our knowledge (99.9% of that people out there) may think it's too hard (I thought that of swimming pools). My lesson with the swimming pool is that it is 85% easier to maintain than I though or remember what my father went through.

And finally cost as someone said, a new owner may not believe that it's only about $1 a day to operate. If they are looking a little above their means as a lot of people do, an energy sucking tub is not going to be something they want. If a house is $400K and they just can afford it, adding an additional $100 a month electric bill on top of the already topped out money may be a killer. I hear a lot of people complain that their electric and gas is so expensive here in Jersey, when prodded they tell you how big their house is ... more square footage = more cost.

Also, it's been my experience that no matter how good or bad the info is, people usually run with the negatives or the person who has no experience. I once was trying to help someone out who was having problems with her pool. She had no clue so I offered to help. She was talking to a neighbor who was just as clueless and followed that advice vs mine ... and then wondered wht it didn't work, it may be true with a tub too.

In_Too_Long:
This is where a tub with a transferable guarantee would add value to the hot tub.

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