We are selling our home.

So far its listed on Craigslist, KSL, Facebook, Owners.com and Yahoo Real Estate. I also plan to post it up at campus (Utah State)
We looked into ForSaleByOwner.com and our local newspaper (Harold Journal). Both are a bit pricey. So, I think we’ll see how well it sells with the places its currently listed – and if needed we’ll explore other options in a month or so.

Hopefully it sells fast.

Now, for the “why” part of things. We’ve already gotten a number of people asking us why we are moving. The answer is that we are going to build. We found a lot we really like up by Smithfield canyon, and we’ve had a builder and floor plan in mind for some time. I guess you could say that we are just finally taking that step.

For those of you interested, we are going to build with Kartchner Homes, and we’ve decided on their Teton plan. We are pretty excited to get things going with this. We’ve been talking about doing it for the past 2 years, but for one reason or another we haven’t.

Here is the floor plan:

Take a look at a couple of these pictures from their model home (same floor plan, but more upgrades than we’ll get):

This is the family room. We won’t have the fireplace. And maybe not the archway either.

The kitchen. Our counter tops probably won’t be so nice. We’ll see about the appliances. We are keeping the island, and the floors though.

Anyway, if you can’t tell, we are pretty excited to see this actually happen. Its a great time to build too. We were impressed at how low interest rates are right now. We’ve also learned that if you start building in the spring (e.g. lock in the sale price of the home) there’s a good opportunity for some instant equity when you close a few months down the road. Especially since builders tend to raise prices at the early part of the summer. Ok, I’m on a soapbox now. I’ll stop.

We are excited. And if anyone else has the building bug and wants to come be our neighbors come talk to me. 😀