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Originally Posted by Davros
improvements to your house / yard are a good thing. Gotta make better economical sense that a car that looses half of its value when it drives out of the yard.
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Hmmm! Don't really agree. The value of anything is not what it costs but what someone else would be willing to pay to buy it from you. Not many non-astronomers want an observatory in their yard. In some ways, the presence of a permanent observatory (as opposed to something that can either be disassembled or used for another non-astronomy purpose) may significantly limit potential buyers - particularly all those many, many poor souls out there who are not hooked on the joys of staying up half the night with icycles hanging off their ears.
BUT, if, as Alex is doing, the property he's talking about is ALL observatory and not much else, then resale is not his objective and as he's a young man, he'll probably expect to get plenty of years of use out of it. So he's doing this for resale.
Peter