{"id":131,"date":"2008-04-09T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=131"},"modified":"2008-04-09T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T10:00:55","slug":"for-sale-by-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"For Sale by Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are selling our home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/tina\/newsletter\/images\/2008\/2008.04_house.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far its listed on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/saltlakecity.craigslist.org\/rfs\/631748620.html\">Craigslist<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=475&#038;ad=3016854&#038;cat=279&#038;lpid=\">KSL<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marketplace\/listing.php?classified_id=11268952595&#038;ref=share\">Facebook<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owners.com\/Search\/ShowListing.aspx?id=2027912&#038;loc=MA\">Owners.com<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/realestate.yahoo.com\/Utah\/Logan\/Homes_for_sale\/realestate-1207444143-ae023c;_ylt=AjoNU53Kr6LN4P8eVd0kkRnnMrQs?typeBak=realestate&#038;p=Logan%2C+UT&#038;type=classified&#038;priceLow=189800&#038;priceHigh=190000&#038;bedroomLow=4&#038;bathroomLow=3.5&#038;search=Search&#038;redir=1\">Yahoo Real Estate<\/a>. I also plan to post it up at campus (Utah State)<br \/>\nWe looked into ForSaleByOwner.com and our local newspaper (Harold Journal). Both are a bit pricey. So, I think we&#8217;ll see how well it sells with the places its currently listed &#8211; and if needed we&#8217;ll explore other options in a month or so.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully it sells fast.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the &#8220;why&#8221; part of things. We&#8217;ve already gotten a number of people asking us why we are moving. The answer is that <strong>we are going to build<\/strong>. We found a lot we really like up by Smithfield canyon, and we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested, we are going to build with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kartchnerhomes.com\/\">Kartchner Homes<\/a>, and we&#8217;ve decided on their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kartchnerhomes.com\/utah\/home_plans\/two_story\/teton.htm\">Teton<\/a> plan. We are pretty excited to get things going with this. We&#8217;ve been talking about doing it for the past 2 years, but for one reason or another we haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the floor plan:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.09_teton.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at a couple of these pictures from their model home (same floor plan, but more upgrades than we&#8217;ll get):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.09_teton1.png\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the family room. We won&#8217;t have the fireplace. And maybe not the archway either.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.09_teton2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kitchen. Our counter tops probably won&#8217;t be so nice. We&#8217;ll see about the appliances. We are keeping the island, and the floors though.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.09_teton3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you can&#8217;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&#8217;ve also learned that if you start building in the spring (e.g. lock in the sale price of the home) there&#8217;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&#8217;m on a soapbox now. I&#8217;ll stop.<\/p>\n<p>We are excited. And if anyone else has the building bug and wants to come be our neighbors come talk to me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ll see how well it sells with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}