[thelegges]

Originally Posted by Altavia

Quickest way to get your neighbors to hate you is add a pool 5yrs after moving in and create 9-12+ months of noise and mess during installation.

Best and probably most cost effective way is buy a home with a pool.

8.3 weeks from first shovel to swim for the 8 after market pools in neighborhood.
9-12+ months someone made a very bad decision, usually the company that took $$$ dug a hole one day then disappeared. Happened too many time 2020-22 even though many warnings not to use certain companies

[Jim 9922]

Our first home came with a nice sized/deep pool, but we found it a general bother to keep up and pay for the extra maintenance costs of power washing the deck, replacing filters, pumps, the solar heating system components and replacing filters, and pumping and rebalancing chemicals after heavy summer downpours and hurricane disturbances. For us, NO POOL was mandatory for our 2nd home. As for grandkids (especially when we had one alone), they preferred playing/swimming in the larger regional family pools where they could interact with other children.

If you are going to design a pool decide how you are going to use it. Half the pools built in The Villages seem to be little more than oversized goldfish bowls: too small, too shallow, too curvy and crammed into too small a space.

The only homesite area I would build a pool is one that receives lots of sunlight for most of the day. But that makes most of the Lani/deck area very hot and uncomfortable (even under an umbrella) for just sitting during about 2/3rds of the year. Personally, we prefer an East or North facing Lani as being more comfortable to enjoy during most of the daytime hours for most of the Florida seasons.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Altavia

Quickest way to get your neighbors to hate you is add a pool 5yrs after moving in and create 9-12+ months of noise and mess during installation.

Best and probably most cost effective way is buy a home with a pool.

I will also add that many new pools are installed where the pool equipment is located close to the next door neighbor's bedroom window, creating a noise issue for the neighbor.

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by thelegges

8.3 weeks from first shovel to swim for the 8 after market pools in neighborhood.
9-12+ months someone made a very bad decision, usually the company that took $$$ dug a hole one day then disappeared. Happened too many time 2020-22 even though many warnings not to use certain companies

But we have one that took 9 mo, two weeks after that was complete, another neighbor two house s away started with the same company...