For people building brick fish tanks in their basement, I am curious on what this would do for a resale value? I see more and more doing this kind of thing in their homes which I think is cool as do most of the other members here, but what happens to the resale value? Just curious.
Permanent fish structure
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I guess if a fish freak is buying your house than it's plus, but I think most "normal" people would think it would lower the value, something they would have to tear out or whatever.
I don't know, I think that if you have your tank set up as a really nice "show piece" that you could sell them on the house. Especially if you had exotic fish that captures the attention of anyone walking into the room. Which I would like to think most of us try to accomplish in our set ups. I would probley offer them help in maintaining it until they got the hang of it.
Depends on how it is usable... some can be converted into a wicked TV stand, or a fireplace... or an entirely new room.
It the same as having a pool, you shouldn't assume it will affect the price either way. Some people will think 'wicked' while others will just think 'something I have to maintain' it totally depends on the person that buys the house. What a person with a permanant fish tank can do is clean is up as good as they can and make it as low maintainace as possible to appeal to the largest possible audiance. Many people, if the tank looks great and is low mantainence, will probably start the tank up after they buy the house if it is an excellent feature in the house that is.
Most non Fishkeepers wouldn't like it. But hey if you've got a huge tank why would you want to move.
Look...I love fish, but I would NOT buy a house with a built in fish tank. Let's be honest here, this site is filled with biased people who already have the "fish-itch". What Nova 8 said about a pool being the same situation? Ah no..... like 99.999999% of the HUMAN population have children and/or enjoy relaxing where maybe 2-5% of people actually own fish and maybe 25% of that are gungo ho enough to have or want a built in tank. IMO of course.
My wife and I's opinion on this is that "we don't care". Too many people only think about the resale value of their home. I hear the "I don't want to do that to my house because it might negatively affect the resale value". IMO if you have that view on modifications to a building, then just rent and don't buy a house. We bought our house so we could do whatever the hell we want to it and not have to answer to the landlord about it. If we enjoy the house and do what we like to it, then it's OK if we loose money on the deal.
If it's that big of an issue when it comes time to sell the house, break out the sledge hammer
If it's that big of an issue when it comes time to sell the house, break out the sledge hammer