My First Memorial Day Without a Pool | ByeByePool Founder Diary Home › Pool Diary › Memorial Day 2026 My First Memorial Day Without a Pool. It Is 54 Degrees and Raining. By Hussien Skaiky • Founder, ByeByePool • Memorial Day, May 26, 2026 It is Memorial Day morning in Massachusetts. I just checked the…
Does Removing a Pool Increase Home Value? The Honest Answer | ByeByePool Home › Blog › Does Pool Removal Increase Home Value? Does Removing a Pool Increase Home Value? The Honest Answer for 2026 By Hussien Skaiky • Founder, ByeByePool • Massachusetts Homeowner • Published May 21, 2026 There is a version of this article…
The Pool Is Gone. The Kids Have a Kiddie Pool. And Honestly? Best Summer Yet. ByeByePool Founder Diary — May 2026 Last Tuesday it hit 90 degrees in Massachusetts. Then Wednesday. Then Thursday. Then Friday. Four straight days of genuine summer heat in the middle of May, the kind of weather that makes New England…
The Pool Is Still Closed. And Honestly? It’s the Best Decision I’ve Made. ByeByePool Founder Diary — May 2026 It’s mid-May in Massachusetts. You’d think by now we’d have had at least a handful of those warm, bright spring days that make you think about firing up the grill and maybe even eyeing the pool….
The $100K Problem Just Became a $15K Problem (Here’s How) ByeByePool Founder Diary — May 2026 A few weeks ago I wrote about scaling back. Should I remove my pool? Spreading the big home improvement list over a few years instead of trying to tackle everything at once. It felt like the right call at…
How I’m Navigating $100K in Home Improvement Quotes — And Why Pool Removal Still Makes The List I asked for quotes. I got sticker shock. Roof replacement — $25,000 to $35,000. New siding — $30,000 to $45,000. Windows — $20,000 to $30,000. New deck — $15,000 to $25,000. Pool removal — $15,000 to $20,000. Add…
What To Put In Place Of Your Pool — 6 Ideas That Will Make You Excited To Remove It I made the decision this year not to remove my pool — at least not yet. The roof comes first. But I covered it up, shut it down for the season, and started doing something I…
Why I’m NOT Removing My Pool This Year — And Why That Might Be The Smartest Decision You Make Too I know. The founder of a pool removal platform telling you not to remove your pool. Bear with me. When I started ByeByePool I was in the middle of planning to remove my own pool….
I promised to keep this honest. So here it is. This week I started getting estimates for the other work my house needs — roof, siding, windows, and a new deck. I knew it wasn’t going to be cheap. I wasn’t prepared for $80,000 to $100,000. That number stops everything in its tracks. Suddenly the…
By the founder of ByeByePool — writing this from Stoughton, MA as it happens Why I’m Writing This When I decided to remove my pool I went looking for real information from someone who had actually done it. Not a contractor trying to sell me something. Not a generic article with ballpark numbers. A real…