Dealing with the general public was bad enough pre-pandemic (assuming you have multiple showings and even a open house or 3). The pandemic made folks even bigger question marks. Opinions are like, Well let’s just say we all have one and they stink.
If you have 10 potential buyers :
2 won’t want the pool and will gladly make the concession that it will cost them $5k to fill it in
2 want to live in your neighborhood at any cost
2 have a good feeling that the pool won’t bite them. They have such good vibes about you and your home, what could go wrong ?
2 Want to use it as leverage to get $75k off the asking price (these folks are losing out lately and don’t have the power they once did)
2 will look at the pool as a blank slate that they can rehab beyond their wildest dreams. ‘Diamond in the rough’ loving folks.
We had 25 or so showings at the height of the pandemic and the realtors weren’t allowed onsite so I was doing all the showings myself. Those 25 family’s could not have been more different from one end of the spectrum to the other.