making a profit on your home

[stevewool]

well i brought this house just over 4 years ago, a victorian terrace, and i have spent a bit on it and it looks great i think, loft conversion, and i thought thats all i could do, but these last few days i have had a pool in the basement, do you think that will put the price up lots

[imagine]

indoor swimming pool,, you snob

[subseastu]

Is there a dving board at the deep end?

[lordna]

A flat i rented in my misspent youth, part of a large victorian dilapidated detached house, had a rowing boat in the cellars so the electricity board could get to read the electric meters. A fact that was featured at the time in the local paper. Didnt add anything to the rents though.....they pulled it down in the end!

[Iani]

My old place, before the divorce (she's still there ) had a flat roof above the bedroom, and there was quite a deep pool of water on it.
No joke - we would sometimes get ducks landing on it and splash in it. It certainly felt strange to be lying in bed under a duckpond.

Then one evening, it sprang a leak.............thankfully a very slow one. All fixed now.

Don't get a house with a flat roof if you can avoid.