Home Sweet Home

During the first part of our relationship, Ty and I lived separately. He lived with his dad and step-mom in a little house in Glendale and I lived with my parents in Sugarhouse (suburbs of Salt Lake City, UT) . We spent every weekend together for just over a year until Ty's parents got approved for a house out in Eagle Mountain Utah about 30 minutes south of Salt Lake. Eagle Mountain was too far of a drive for Ty so we decided it was time to find a place of our own.

We came up with our budget on how much we could afford and started finding places we could rent. We quickly discovered that we would be better off buying a home. It was a longer commitment but in the long run we would save a couple hundred a  month plus it would be a good start for our future.

We started our journey with the hopes that we could find a place before Ty's parents moved. At first it was exciting seeing all these empty/blank spaces and imagining what we could do with it. Every house had a back story and begged for us to add our part to it. Unfortunately most of those houses ended in heart break.

We put in 3-4 different offers with each one getting failing. The worst one being a cute town home in Magna Utah that fell threw beginning of December 2013, when the HOA wouldn't renew their FHA standing until the new year. We found this out after we had our offer excepted, inspection done and our closing date set. Together with the sellers we tried everything. The sellers offered to pay for the FHA approval but the HOA refused. We where crushed that we wouldn't be in a house by Christmas.

Our hearts where shattered and we felt like giving up. We started to feel less excited about house hunting when two more of our offers got rejected and sellers went with other offers instead. Our realtor was amazing and helped keep our spirits up.

That was when she showed us a cute little community in West Valley City. The town homes where festively decorated for Christmas and fresh snow had sprinkled the ground. It was a listing that had just come on the market that day. The price was great and Ty instantly fell in love with it. I needed a little bit more convincing but Ty knew that it was going to be ours. It really was what we wanted. A two bedroom with room to grow. We put in our offer and crossed our fingers that we could close and move before Christmas. Everything worked out this time around except for our move date. The seller, a retired school teacher who was planning to move to Idaho to live with family, needed some extra in the house. Her son who was helping her move wasn't going to be able to come down until after Christmas. We where able to work with her and on December 27 we moved in!