[quote=meadandale][quote=AN]I think in CA, you’d also have to disclosed that there used to be a pool when you sell. [/quote]
That would be news to me since after moving into my house my next door neighbor disclosed that there was a filled in pool in my backyard. Neither the RE agent or the previous owner made any mention of it.
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You can go to the building department and check permit records to see if anyone ever pulled a permit for the removal. Some jurisdictions have online permit archives. If the pool is close to the house, or if it were logical that someone would build in it’s place someday, I would be more concerned. If it is close to the house, the pool may have been engineered to support lateral loads and if the people who abandoned the pool improperly destroyed some of this, that would be bad. There are other reasons special engineering may have come into play.
Also, at any given time someone with knowledge of the pool could report it to code compliance. If there is no record of proper abandonment and/or demo of the pool, they could by very problematic.
