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- From: tom@oracorp.com (Tom)
- Subject: Re: Basketball Goal
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004950.353@oracorp.com>
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- References: <1992Nov17.164716.6333@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:49:50 GMT
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- 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?
-
-
- My house is on a grade and the driveway is too steep to setup a hoop. The
- upside is that we have a great yard for tobogganning.
-
- I didn't realize how much I missed a basketball hoop until I go visiting
- to my in-laws house. All their kids are grown now, but the hoop still gets
- a lot of use from us "kids". We're in our mid-to-late 30's, and it
- feels like I'm going to have a coronary every time we play, but hey, I'll
- be able to walk again in a few days when the legs stop quivering. :-)
-
- My father-in-law bought one of those adjustable backboards, supposedly
- for the grand children. We've been known to drop the rim down to a
- "jammable" height (at least for us old guys whose legs don't have the
- spring they used to). Occassionally we like to see what it's like to
- play above the rim. It's pretty cool but it's too bad I can't get there
- anymore and have to bring the rim down to my level.
-
- Anyway, my mother-in-law, she doesn't play much anymore, but maybe she'll
- take it up again when she retires in December. My daughter is almost two
- and she likes to have the rim dropped to 7 feet so she can sit on my
- shoulders and jam. And my neice and nephew play whenever they go to
- Grandma's house. Of course the neighbor kids come over and play a lot
- too. I don't know, maybe that's a bad thing, with liability issues to
- consider.
-
- I wouldn't base the decision to buy a house on whether it has a basketball
- hoop or not. Put one up and enjoy it. Just keep it as far away from the
- house as possible, and don't install it on anything that is connected to
- the house. When I was a kid, he had a backboard attached to the back porch
- and the whole house would vibrate whenever a shot hit the rim, especially
- those long shots from downtown that kids always take playing pig or horse
- or whatever.
-
- My next house is going to have a nice flat driveway for the basketball
- court, with a flat area in the yard big enough for a tennis court which
- can be flooded in the winter for an ice rink, and a nice steep hill on
- one side for tobogganning/skiing. The house? Who cares? Buy location,
- buy location, buy location. ;-)
-
- Uh, I'm in favor of basketball hoops, and I wouldn't care what any future
- buyer thinks. If they don't like it, they can take it down if they like
- the house.
-
- -- Tom
-