By Laura Varnon, Marketing Coordinator
Let’s take a look at how having a hot tub impacts the value of your home. Hot tubs can be an investment for your property and can fit almost any budget. Hot tubs can be purchased for anywhere from $3,000 to $20,000.
But like any part of your home, how you care for it determines if it will have a positive effect on your home’s value, should you decide to sell it.
Portable hot tubs can be moved and for that reason may be considered personal property that can be taken with the homeowner when they leave the property. However, some homeowners decide to include their hot tub with the sale of their home.
Local Realtor Jim Forbus, of KRCH Realty in Reno, said about a quarter of the homes he sells have hot tubs that are sold with the house.
“A hot tub or spa, over a pool, is much more desirable,” he said, because you can use it daily and almost any time of the year.
He also has a hot tub at his own home.
Hot tubs are also very desirable at vacation destinations, which make up a large portion of the areas we serve, including Lake Tahoe and Santa Cruz.
Vacation homes with hot tubs are much more likely to be rented than those without, making a hot tub a worthwhile investment. In those cases, hot tubs certainly increase property or rental value.
Here at The Spa and Sauna Company, we commonly work with realtors and homeowners who purchase a hot tub to feature at a property to add value.
Recently, we had a customer come in to purchase a used Hot Spring Spa for their Graeagle property.
He had a deck which had a hole in it, because he had removed a hot tub from it.
Upon trying to sell the home, a few potential buyers remarked that the deck would be great, if it had a hot tub in it. He came in and bought one, and not long after, the property sold.
Like anything, how you care for a hot tub will determine if it adds value when you sell the property and hot tub.
Forbus said he recently worked with someone who had a hot tub that not well maintained and decided to remove it before listing the property.
Even so, with the popularity of hot tubs, having the wiring available for a hot tub hook up can be a selling bonus too.
“It it’s nice, I definitely feature it,” he said, of hot tubs that come with homes he sells.
To wrap up, hot tubs can be a definite bonus when living in or selling a home. And should you need assistance with hot tub cleaning and routine maintenance, click here for more info. We’re happy to help.
