Posted Oct 30, 2024, 3:40 AM
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Gros Méchant Loup
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 72,949
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Originally Posted by Wigs
The retirement house my folks bought months before Covid (and the crazy real estate market peak) has a large 20'x40' inground pool installed decades ago by original owners.
Their next door neighbour, also on a double wide lot, had an older above ground pool that was degrading. Their neighbour's wife wanted an inground pool but every quote they got in 2023 for a basic 16'x32' inground pool was between $75k-$100k!
Suffice it to say they instead installed a new larger above ground pool (w modern dark liner) and installed a nice deck attached to it and a nice extended concrete patio coming from the house to the pool.
Crazy that inground pools have become so unaffordable to double income families. According to Bank of Canada's inflation calculator the cost of the inground pool my folks put in at a previous house should only cost ~$39,000 today. Not $100,000+  |
Yes the cost of in-ground pools exploded right after we got ours installed 15 years ago. We paid around 25k and 2-3 years later a couple of families we were friends with were paying 50k for basically the same thing. It’s only gotten worse since then.
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