House Hunting

We're house hunting in a sellers market. I'm cheap, ...er frugal. I really want my investment in a home to yield a return greater than I can get in the market or the banks... ha ha ha, banks, give me a break!

We've lived in apartments while renting, then we "bought" (read, mortgaged) a condo. I've become spoiled by the low maintenance requirements of such living. And by the pool, hot tub, clubhouse, parks, landscape, etc. My wife wants a house with a yard and presumably the whole ensemble of honey-dos that accompanies it. I don't.

So, why this site? Well, the web is a great place to solicit input from distant relatives and not-relatives. I plan to use this page to assemble notes from my house hunting search. If you've got information that might be useful to my home hunting, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME! I can be reached by email, here.

If you are in a similar predicament, perhaps the information that assembles here will be useful to your search as well. Best wishes and enjoy!

05/17/05 - Update
We've been entertaining a planned community named Day Break in South Jordan, Utah. My dad suggests that now may be a risky time to buy there because builders are flooding the market with so-called starter homes (I'm not sure what exactly differentiates a starter home from a not-starter home) and charging a premium for them. This may well yield to a glut of starter homes on the market all for sale at the same time, meaning if we buy now and want to sell during that time that we'll have a hell of a time differentiating ourselves from the rest of the gaggle, and thus may be required to sell at a compromise in order to compete. He has considerable experience with real-estate and home buying so I tend to trust his input (plus, he's my dad!) I'd love input from anyone on this topic.

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