don't laugh but I had this same problem with a garage. I converted my one car garage to a game room/4th bedroom. It was to be my game/exercise room but my son moved back in... anyway..................... Then I thought to move. I asked the realator if I made an error and she told me what I'll tell you. It's a toss up. Half the people will like it and half won't. When you list the house for sale, those insisting on a tub will see in the listing that it doesn't have one. Same with my garage. Those people won't even come to see your house, so in that sense, only interested parties will. And like I am doing now, I had the same question to my contractor when adding my addition. He said "tubs, especially jetted ones and ones with big decks are phasing out". He said the trend is now big walk in showers. With that said, he said that if it was the only bathroom to have a tub, I might want to have a tub. Families with kids who might buy the house would want one. So if you have ONE tub at least somewhere in the house, I'd not worry too much. If not, then I'd suggest a smaller tub and nicer shower to make your life more comfortable and make you worry less

You have got to be kidding. Sorry, I know there must have been all types of physical amd psycho pain going on. But can't stop laughing. Although I was waiting for you to continue the story with having to call 911 and an experience in the emergency room. Thankfully that didn't happen. I'll be sharing this story for a very long time. Can you even walk now? And on a serious side, make sure you use an antibiotic or something to soothe this. Nothing with perfumes, etc. in it. I'd hate to hear something worse evolved.

Hello, Abby We recently had new Speed Queen commercial washers installed in our apartment building. I was folding a dry load while the washer was filling for a new load for which I had selected the "hot/normal" setting. About a minute after the water started, I heard the pressure change, and opened the washer to see what was going on, and discovered that it had switched to cold. I thought it was just a glitch, and pressed "hot" again. The water then started to come out hot once more, but quickly reverted to cold, so I had to stand by the washer and repeatedly press the "hot" water selection again. And of course, the same thing happens when "warm" is selected. I called Speed Queen to ask if we could get a technician out to fix the problem, and was absolutely stunned I was told that it wasn't something that could be repaired, as it was intentionally programmed to switch to cold. This is an exact quote from that Speed Queen tech: "The only way we could find to meet the energy efficiency requirements for the washer was to have the water revert to cold." Huh? There's a lot of talk about the "death of American expertise," and this is just one sad and astoundingly ridiculous example. I was assuming Speed Queen did this just for their commercial washers. If I were a homeowner who had purchased this machine for private use, I'd be doubly furious. The Speed Queen technician said I might be able to find an independent repair person who'd be willing to see if they could override the internal computer programming, but so far I haven't been able to find anyone with the expertise. Our machine takes a full six minutes to fill, so every time any of the tenants in our building wants to wash with hot or warm water, we have to invest extra time to standi at the washer, repeatedly pushing the water temp selection of our choice to be sure we get the temperature we originally selected. We had the building owner call Speed Queen as well, and he was told the same thing I was told about this being their ridiculous attempt to make the washer more energy efficient. All I can say is I feel your pain!

Bob, I'm originally from the lowcountry in SC and get back there regularly. They've got citrus greening (and quarantine) along the coastline. I think where I'm at just outside Washington DC gets almost as bad with mosquito swarms, heat, and humidity. The plus side of being in Virginia is there is a 20% chance of having 4 seasons (eg. seeing snow) which I love and I have the Shenandoah mountains an hours drive which is pretty nice. I'm definitely looking at getting away from the urban area though.