property tax and an INGROUND pool in Brooklyn
Hello all. We just bought our Bar Ridge victorian and we are looking to put an inground pool in next spring. I am being told that our property tax will go up DRASTICALLY if we put this pool in. Many people are telling us to put an above ground pool in because your tax does…
Hello all. We just bought our Bar Ridge victorian and we are looking to put an inground pool in next spring. I am being told that our property tax will go up DRASTICALLY if we put this pool in. Many people are telling us to put an above ground pool in because your tax does not go up. However, we do not want an above ground pool! Our current property tax is around 5K. …does anyone know how to figure out what it will go up to? How can I find out?
Ask your insurance company before you start… or another company if you want to keep it on the DL.
Usually they make you fence off around it, which may reduce the amount of increase to your insurance.
As for it not adding to the value of your house… I hear that all the time.
However I never hear anyone say, ” Nice house, too bad it has a pool.”
all you have to do is go down to the dept of buildings on livingstone st and go to dept of finance and ask the clerk
who deals with taxes and they can give you an assesment
it will take some time down there but its the only way to get the most accurate price addition
I would imagine it increasing your homeowners insurance moreso that your property tax. Should really not have any effect on NYC property tax unless there’s some crazy loophole I haven’t heard about.
since pools don’t normally increase value, I doubt it and in fact if its a under three, you have a 6% limitation(no more than 20% over five years valuation increase are allowed) and since most houses aren’t close to their actual target value(its along story) it should likewise have no effect.
I saw a really nice small above ground pool when we were house hunting that surprised the heck out of me. It was at the back of the yard and they’d built a deck around it. What made the difference though was that in the front/center they placed wood steps as though they were smaller, stepped-up decks. They graded the ground to the left and right of those smaller deck/step it with planters filled with shrubs and flowers. The overall effect was fantastic. You hardly noticed it was above ground at all.
Just wanted to share an option I’d seen that was visually appealing. In case you decide not to go the in-ground route.
Best of luck!
You might be able to find out if you contact the NYC Department of Finance – nyc.gov. I use to think that above ground pools were ugly too but I have seen neighbors here in Ditmas Park and friends in Midwood with above ground pools that were really nice and a far cry from the old plastic blue pools. They are enclosed in beautifully landscaped multi-level decks giving the illusion that the pools are below ground.
My house came with an ugly above ground pool complete with a metal ladder hanging off of the side. It looked like blue and brown tupperware bowl sitting in the yard. The good thing was that our backyard is huge so it only took up a portion of the backyard space. However, when my kids became teenagers, we got rid of it. I would definitely reconsider installing another above ground pool because of the options currently available.
I have also seen some really ugly in-ground pools but I must admit that there is nothing like a nicely landscaped in-ground pool.
How about putting in a “duck pond” instead?
You might get more accurate information asking people on Bay Ridge blogs and Dyker Heights or Staten Island, where there are more swimming pools than in brownstone Brooklyn or the Victorian Flatbush areas.
I agree about the above-ground pool. Don’t do it. I’ve never seen one that looked nice. It would have to have a solid concrete, stone or brick facade around the edge to look decent. But they’re usually always plastic or something. Used to see cedar-edged ones but those look super 70’s hot-tub somehow in style.