We Moved

Curtis' desire to increase his portfolio of rentals and my desire to move back to West Bountiful go me looking at multiplexes online late one night a couple of months ago. I found an interesting duplex in West Bountiful and a couple of triplexes in Bountiful.

That Wednesday we drove to our weekly dinner at Curtis' parents followed by our couple therapy session in Centerville. On the way back to pick up the kids at their grandparent's house, I we passed right by the duplex and I flippantly said that we should go look at it. Curtis doesn't usually like to deviate from his course to do something spontaneous so I didn't think he would turn around to see it but he did. It was a large-looking, cute, yellow 1800's home. I love historic homes and therefore was biasedly in love at first sight. Curtis saw the potential and liked it too.

It was a HUD home and therefore had all sorts of scary signs on it that included a message that no one was allowed inside until they had an accepted offer. So that night we went home, called our renter in Tremonton who is a realtor and who has been behind in her rent about $1300 for quite some time now (hoping if we got her some money she would pay us), and had her place a full price offer.

We decided on the full price of $162,000 because it had been appraised in March for over $200,000 and so we felt full price was already a good deal. The offer was accepted and Curtis and his dad did the inspection and found it sound (although all the plumbing and electrically needed to be replaced and probably both furnaces). Once all our paperwork was in the incompetent loan officer said he could close it within 2 weeks. That would make our closing date October 7th.

To make a long story short, we ended up not closing until November 8th! And I had already found a couple to rent our home in Willard who moved in October 20th so we stored our things and moved in with Curtis' parents.

It's great that our new home/rental is less than a mile from Curtis' parents, it's on nearly an acre, and it's only one house away from the childrens' elementary school. If it weren't so close to the freeway entrance, I would just want to remodel it back to it's original beauty, making it a single family home again, and live there forever. But it'll be a great rental.

The problem with our long-term plan of living there one year then buying another rental in the area to owner occupy for a year then tenatively live in Curtis' parent's house while they are on a mission while we build our dream home on a specific lot I have already picked out located in between our new home and Curtis' parent's is that WE LOVE OUR NEW WARD! I never want to leave it! After just 2 times at choir practice I felt like i belonged to some kind of vocal club --- we were all that tight! I have never felt so much love and joy in a ward before. It's incredible!! And even though my dream lot is located just a block from my current ward's meeting house and it's ward boundaries, I don't think it's even in the same stake! That's how wonderfully active this area is! My only hope is the off chance the boundaries somehow drastically change and include my new neighborhood--ha, fat chance-- besides that would then have to exclude the people in the neighborhoods I love (the ward is already large). Okay, maybe somehow we can end up buying something in the ward eventually, but that would require me giving up my dream house ideas. I guess I'll cross that bridge when it comes. Too bad the freeway is so close or I would really stay in our new house. I absolutely love that old house even though most of the beautiful, original architecture has been removed or covered up with terrible paneling. It's just a good feeling I get in it. It's lovely.