This post is in the: Credit and Credit Score category.
Your credit score, calculated from myriad of factors, tell your current and potential creditors how creditworthy you are as an individual or how much of a credit risk you pose. Having a credit score that is too low is the number one reason people don’t qualify for a mortgage. Put … Read more
This post is in the: Salt Lake City Buyers category.
Affordability in terms of housing measures your ability to buy. It does this by measuring how much of your gross income is spent on your mortgage. For example, if your gross income was $4,000 a month and your mortgage payment was $800 a month, your affordability index would be 20% … Read more
This post is in the: Real Estate News • Salt Lake City Living category.
Everyone has one – that shelf in the garage or basement full of old paint cans, bug killers, and unwanted cleaners. You don’t want that toxic stuff near your pets and kids. It’s equally as important to keep those hazardous materials from entering our landfills, our waters, and our soil … Read more
This post is in the: Salt Lake City Buyers category.
What if you find a short sale or foreclosure in Salt Lake City and decide it would be a great investment. It needs work though, lots of work. You know that once the property has been improved, the value of the home will be much more than the cost of … Read more
This post is in the: Salt Lake City Condos category.
The property which is now the Dakota Lofts in downtown Salt Lake City has had many incarnations in the past century. It has a lot more history with the city than I originally thought. Dakota Origins The property was originally owned by Aaron Keyser, a prominent real estate investor in … Read more
This post is in the: Salt Lake City Sellers category.
There are many websites out there like Zillow that use fancy algorithms to estimate your home’s value based on comparable sales in the surrounding area. These websites are quite popular and are used by many people during the first stages of the ‘I think I want to sell my home’ … Read more
This post is in the: Utah Rebates category.
Now that it’s Springtime, people are starting to do those household projects that we all procrastinated about last October. Many of those projects include new appliances, heating and cooling mechanisms and the like. As you think about putting these things in your home, you need to remember that YOU GET … Read more
This post is in the: Salt Lake City Condos category.
I had the chance to go through the Westgate Lofts last week and tour the phase 2 building. I have to admit, they are pretty awesome. The ceilings are high, the brick is exposed, the beams are varnished, it is the essence of downtown loft living. Being an EcoBroker, I … Read more
This post is in the: Utah Buyer Advice category.
Last month, the Utah Association of Realtors released the new real estate purchase contract for Utah. This document is exactly as it sounds. It is the contract used when you want to put in an offer to buy a home. There have been some major improvements to the document and … Read more
