A Place to Call HOME!

As our family has grown, so has the amount of "stuff" in our garage.... I have finally bought a new car and now suddenly I care about parking it in the garage.  So in December, we decided we would take advantage of what we felt was a great time to buy a new home, and put our home up for sale.  Well, little did we know, there are millions of short sale properties on the market and not very many homes with traditioonal sales.  As a result of this, we sold our home within 2 weeks of listing it.

So the search began.... We had initially thought that this would be SO much fun... We learned pretty quickly that the majority of the homes that we would consider purchasing were short sales... As the weeks went on, we weren't having a lot of success, there was a new listing for a short sale on Emmeline Drive in Herriman, we had considered not even viewing the home once we realized it was a short sale, but our agent had already arranged for us to view it, so we thought what the heck, we might as well go and look.... Upon entering the home, we were completely stunned... the home was gorgeous... So we decided to put an offer on the home and in the meantime to continue looking at houses...The bank accepted our offer in January of 2012, we knew that the short sale process "could" be a long process, but thought we could handle waiting 60-90 days to close.

We waited and waited and waited, finally April had arrived, we were two weeks away from closing when the homeowners filed bankruptcy.  This completely halted the sale of the home.  At this point, we had to move out of our home, we had been renting it from the new owner, so we moved in with Katie and Riley.  We were so upset and once again began the search for a home.  We had finally decided that we were going to build, I spoke with the builder in the morning and had mentioned that we would have an offer submitted on a lot by the end of the day.  Around 11:00 am, I received a call from my realtor stating that the bankruptcy court released the home on Emmeline and that we could purchase it.  She had said that we could close within approximately 2 weeks.  Two weeks certainly seemed like a better option than waiting for 4 months to build.  So we initiated the inspection and appraisal and were looking forward to moving into our new home.  Well, problem after problem arose with this property.  As of the beginning of July, we still have not moved into this home.  We finally decided that it was time to move-on.  We found a property that we love in South Jordan and will be closing by the end of the month.  We are looking forward to living in a central location.