Removing in ground hot tub?

[mooch]

We have to get our pool coping and tile redone and are considering leveling our in ground hot tub and turning it in to more of a tanning deck/shallow water area. We hardly ever use the hot tub and have young kids so we feel we’d get better use out of a flat shallow tanning deck area

1) Have any of you done this? Do you regret it?
2) There’s a chance we’ll have to move in about a year. If you were buying a house, would this deter you? Or would you prefer the hot tub?

[mooch]

Any opinions?

[curtintex]

I’ll give you an opinion. We didn’t really need a hot tub either when our kids were younger. Now that they’re all gone, that sucker gets put to use very often.

[skinsfan]

We have a pool and hot tub, we use the hot tub a ton Nov-April, I enjoy it. Your kids will grow up fast and not need the shallow water area, long term I think keeping the hot tub would be what I did! Just my .02.

[mooch]

Thank y’all. Makes a lot of sense and exactly why I wanted opinions. Trying to not make a short sighted decision!

[Bassdeer]

If your moving keep it, (will save you some money) New homeowners that never had a pool will love the idea of a hot tub.

[mooch]

Surprisingly it’s not much of a cost difference to turn it into a tanning deck vs. just remodeling it. That’s part of what is making the decision harder.

But I’m with y’all…keeping the hot tub seems like the better long term idea