Permanent fish structure

[Nova 8]

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.

That is what my parent were told by their agent when they sold our previous house, the pool doesn't make a difference its hit or miss. We had lots of people not buy the house due to the pool, I can tell you it was alot less then 99.999999% that liked the pool.
Also a lady where I work just bought a house with a tank built in as a dividing wall and she loves it (even though she didn't keep fish before). She keeps it bare bottom so all she has to do it turn a tap and the water drains out then she just tops it up. Ease of care was the reason she wasn't put off by it, that, and she used the tank as a reason to drive the price down. If your tank looks good enough you can get non-hobbyests interested very easily, esp if you fish and very tame. I had quite a few of my Mums friends come over and pat the fish then go start out and buy a setup for an oscar. These people all do very well too, cause I help them along their way sono deaths yet .

 

[-Asianguy-]

A good realtor will turn it around. huge tanks can be converted into.

a. panic rooms.

b. child punishment rooms


most people will opt for punishment rooms.

but to me each his own. I don't think something in a basment is going to make that much difference.

 

[hayden]

my mom is a reltor and she has seen a couple built ins nothing too monster and out of the maby 10 she has seen all but one were taken care of by a service. next summer im going to try and get a job with one of those services.

 

[dr_sudz]

If your mom is selling houses with big tanks why not offer to service the tank yourself for them as a legit company? Its a good way to start your own business off!
I have wanted to have a huge fish tank that has a room behind it that you can only get to by going through the fish tank. Kind of like a panic room but it would be like where the hell did they go?

 

[crashinc25]

For some reason, I don't think the people responding here have actually bought a house? This is my 4th house and purely for resale, I would NOT buy something that was out of the norm. Get the "aquarium" thought out of your head for a minute. Would you really want a potential eye-sore in your house, or better yet, would you really sign up for additional maintenance or costs built in to the house? It's not always cost as well. Buying a house with a pool may be avoided because of children or upkeep. We all jump into these aquariums and want bigger and better, but do we all really think of the time, money, and space involved? Not as much as we should, I'd guess. So this is a HOBBY, and NOT part of the populations majorities daily habits, for the most part. YOU buy the house with that big cement windowed cavern/dungeon, I'll take the one in the hills with the spa.

 

[wright4lfe]

some good and not so good points made on this thread.

the house i currently own i plan on selling next fall. in the house i am going to buy (my parents house) i am already working with my dad on setting up a tank like johnptc has, except make the window into the tank like a window into the house. so the tank will technically outside the house, but will be connected to the house by a viewing window so i can view the tank from inside the house.

i never plan on selling considering my parents live 1.5 miles from the beach in Huntington Beach, CA. they live in a great neighborhood with great schools so its kind of a no brainer for me.

if, 60 years from now when i die and my sons inherit the house, they don't like it they eat a d*ck...lol

 

[dr_sudz]

For some reason, I don't think the people responding here have actually bought a house? This is my 4th house and purely for resale, I would NOT buy something that was out of the norm. Get the "aquarium" thought out of your head for a minute. Would you really want a potential eye-sore in your house, or better yet, would you really sign up for additional maintenance or costs built in to the house? It's not always cost as well. Buying a house with a pool may be avoided because of children or upkeep. We all jump into these aquariums and want bigger and better, but do we all really think of the time, money, and space involved? Not as much as we should, I'd guess. So this is a HOBBY, and NOT part of the populations majorities daily habits, for the most part. YOU buy the house with that big cement windowed cavern/dungeon, I'll take the one in the hills with the spa.

Its a good thought but how many people have beautiful in-wall tanks over a bar or in the rec room that is all furnished? I understand if you had a algae covered, barely see the fish type tank that is not maintained at all. But in reality how many people come into a building where there is a beautiful setup and they can't not ask a question about it? Large tanks are easier to take care of in regards water quality, and everyone notices a beautiful setup. I think that many have had good input on the whole idea of these structures that in the event that if the buyer doesn't want it, a 20lbs sledge will make short work of the space used.
Keep the comments comming I find them very enlighting, and thank you all for the comments so far! I really appreciated the POV of the realistate people too.

 

[PMK]

If your mom is selling houses with big tanks why not offer to service the tank yourself for them as a legit company? Its a good way to start your own business off!
I have wanted to have a huge fish tank that has a room behind it that you can only get to by going through the fish tank. Kind of like a panic room but it would be like where the hell did they go?

So what do you do where you would need a pnic room? unique idea though.

For some reason, I don't think the people responding here have actually bought a house? This is my 4th house and purely for resale, I would NOT buy something that was out of the norm. Get the "aquarium" thought out of your head for a minute. Would you really want a potential eye-sore in your house, or better yet, would you really sign up for additional maintenance or costs built in to the house? It's not always cost as well. Buying a house with a pool may be avoided because of children or upkeep. We all jump into these aquariums and want bigger and better, but do we all really think of the time, money, and space involved? Not as much as we should, I'd guess. So this is a HOBBY, and NOT part of the populations majorities daily habits, for the most part. YOU buy the house with that big cement windowed cavern/dungeon, I'll take the one in the hills with the spa.

I think the Monster tank in a house really depends on the buyer if they are buying just to build equity and upgrade later or are they looking to live there for years could go either way to many variebles to get an accurate answer. I know here in the bay area house average 800K so in reality most people here cant even afford to buy a house so what people do is an interest only loan build equity sell the house then use the equity to buy a house they can actually afford. Cause if house are 800k that means you'll be paying around $5000 a month which is $60000 a year. Not many people can afford that. Actually not many people even make that.