New pool owner - question on Diamond Brite pits

[vinper]

We worked with the builder on the house saved there also . But we learned so much on both . would love to do it again .. you get better the more you practice .. But just glad to not be upsidedown on mortgage like so many people are right now...

[famousdavis]

"But just glad to not be upsidedown on mortgage like so many people are right now..."

Amen to that! My wife and I stuck in our little 3/2 home while friends I know upsized into huge homes. Then the housing market collapsed, people went bankrupt or they're upside down on their mortgages. One friend I have lives in his $500K home that's now worth about $260K (he's probably $150K upside-down). We suffered through lots of Florida summers without a pool, but now we've got one and I don't have to worry about next month's mortgage payment.

Sometimes less is more.

[PoolDoc]

I think less is going to be more for a long . . . long . . . time. You can't overcome 35 years of living nationally on credit in 5 years. I'm not sure what this will mean for the pool industry, except that there will be a heck of a lot of Intex pools!

But, I think that's a good thing, for the most part*. People forget that the ORIGINAL American dream was freedom from oppression, not freedom to shop till you drop!

Ben / PoolDoc

* If China becomes THE world power, I'm very afraid THAT will be a very, very bad thing, even for the Chinese. Take a look at these articles, about the recent high speed train crash:
http://goo.gl/umzJW -- http://goo.gl/Umfon
The authorities are LITERALLY burying the evidence, possibly including live people. One 2 year old baby was rescued by a policeman disobeying direct orders.