13. Houses: You’re typically able to get better and more features for your dollar when you purchase an older home rather than building new. Older houses were often constructed on bigger corner lots, and you also get architectural variety in your neighborhood if the houses were built or remodeled in different eras. via 21 Things [...]

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For those of you who want to be in an amazing area at an affordable price, this house is for you. Total it is about 2,800 sq feet which is big for the neighborhood and it also has a mother in law with a separate entrance and complete kitchen. There are 5 bedrooms and 3 [...]

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Josh Mettle Blog – Josh Mettle. This is a great article written by a good friend of mine Josh Mettle. He is one of the top producing Loan offiers in Salt Lake.. Great info.. Existing Home Sales dropped in May for the first time in 3 months but still managed to post its second-highest since November [...]

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ksl.com – Stocks slide after new home sales drop 33 percent. Home prices slide due to the expiration of the first time home buyer tax credit. Apprently it did inflate the number of homes selling over the last 6 months. Interesting time, who would have thought? The big questions is, do you think they will [...]

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“Most of the homes we looked at ended up being short sales,” she said. Not surprisingly, the couple ended up buying their dream last month, a 6,000-square-foot home with all the bells and whistles, via a short sale at a sizeable discount in South Jordan. In Salt Lake County, for example, nearly one-quarter of all [...]

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YouTube – Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto). I found this really interesting, kind of long but worth it. The city has been hit pretty hard. Now I really don’t like turning it into a political issue, because I don’t think it is necessarily. However what we do know is that it hasn’t worked in [...]

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Hey I thought I’d run this idea by you because I think its great…   There are a bunch of homes in areas in Salt Lake County (Magna, Rose Park, Kearns, West side Salt Lake, etc) that have a great potential for remodels. The reason they have great potential is because the homes are pretty [...]

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UPDATE 1-Senate votes to extend US home tax credit deadline | Reuters. Well, lucky for all those that waited. Check out this interesting article about extending the Housing Tax Credit.. BONDS |  GLOBAL MARKETS June 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to give homebuyers another three months to settle on their contracts and [...]

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Recovery may not get home-building boost – Salt Lake Tribune. Salt lake County Home builders association has posted some interesting news and opinions on the economic recovery. We all knew these govt. incentives were falsely inflating our local econmic recovery. And the Home Builders just admitted they can’t survive without a little bailout money from [...]

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U.S. double-dip recession very unlikely say economists – Yahoo! News. Well, I am not sure if I completely agree with this article, however I am going to be optomistic and say ok! I mean I hope we do not go into another double dip recession. This thing keeps lasting a lot longer than everyone thought [...]

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