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Old 06-29-2025, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Bassdeer View Post
I agree, just sold our house with a pool in TX and got to TV a week ago. My buddy that's an appraiser said it really only adds around 16k to the house. I'm like yea right, tell a pool builder you want a pool in your back yard for 16k. House was only on the market 15 days, and we got a full price offer.
We really need to stop comparing real estate from wherever we came from and applying the logic to The Villages. No one had bidding wars of 40-50 people willing to spend up to $250k on a plot of land just to then build a house of top of that....multiple times a month every month.