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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Basketball Goal
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.201200.12608@i88.isc.com>
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- Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
- References: <BxtM9x.CAx@unx.sas.com> <1992Nov16.202037.28150@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Nov17.164716.6333@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:12:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.164716.6333@oakhill.sps.mot.com> stevee@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Stephen Elmendorf) writes:
- >I also would like to put up a goal (on a post). My concern is that we don't
- >plan on living here more than 4-5 years at most. How much of a negative is it
- >to have a goal in front of the house when it comes time to sell? It seems that
- >removing it might be difficult, since it is sunk into a block of concrete.
- >Unless the prospective buyers had kids, or liked to play, I would think it
- >might turn them away. Any comments?
-
- After spending 8 months as virtual motel guests in our own home, trying
- to avoid offending potential buyers who never materialized, my advice is:
- It's your home - live in it!
-
- You never know what's going to happen. When we first bought our house,
- we alternately planned on staying for 5 to 15 years, then staying
- 30 years, then staying only 4 years. The market and the economy
- changed, and it will be at least another 5 years before we have
- financially recovered enough to consider moving again, after this last
- fiasco. So things that really would have been nice to do a couple years
- ago will remain undone a while longer - we still have a 75-year-old furnace,
- instead of a new one - we have a neutral paint scheme best described as
- "bland suburbian" instead of the 3-color scheme we wanted outside - we
- have a Model A-sized garage that's got about 5 years left in its life
- instead of a two-car insulated garage. If we had put as much energy and
- money into making the house our own instead of worrying about the next
- buyer's next buyer, we'd have a house that we wouldn't have wanted to
- move from in the first place. If a buyer doesn't want a basketball
- goal, they can remove it. But you're more likely to benefit from a
- kid or two seeing the hoop and saying "Hey, Mom and Dad, this place is
- great!" than you are to scare someone away.
-
- Sorry for the rambling, but please, somebody out there, learn from my mistake!
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
- jeq@i88.isc.com '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094 Naperville, IL
- There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
- Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
-