Move or Update?

I made a list over the weekend of all the updates I would like to make to our home and how much it would all cost to do.

The grand total came to almost $60,000.00

Gulp

It would be cheaper to move at this point.  There are a few reasons to stay, we like our location in proximity to the school, the town.  Neither Dan nor I feel like we have any ties here friend/church wise.  (Acquaintances yes...good friends?  I have like 3.)

I'm sure we could lower that amount to some degree, I rounded up high on the numbers because there are always hidden costs in home repairs.  One trip to the hardware store turns into three every time!

I'm not wanting to move unless it's to our dream home and I just don't see anything remotely close to it on the market right now.  You know, a nice place with 4 bed/3 bath, master bedroom that you can actually fit furniture into, office, 3 car garage and please please please - at least a 1/3 of an acre.

We might just do some of the "must haves" on the list that we would have to do before we would list the house anyhow...wait for the comps to go up.

But these are all just thoughts going through my head and I've since had 2 realtors call me out of the blue and one show up on my doorstep!  

A little Twilight Zonei-ish, don't you agree!?

Saving Older Homes

I love history and especially old architecture.  If I had a deep enough pocket book, I would save and restore every old house I ever found!

I was surfing a little online tonight and found these fun photos of downtown Salt Lake City.  Then I realized, HEY...I lived here - in that very spot!

South Temple in 1909

South Temple today - Brigham Apartments

 

South Temple 1909 with the Newhouse mansion 

 Same view today.

I loved living here when I was a single girl going to the University of Utah.  I had a fantastic one bedroom apartment, no roommates and life was good.  

(Sometimes I tell Dan I wish I could go live there again for a few days at a time, kids come with a lot of messes and clutter I never had then!) 

It seems like downtown is treated like a big playground for building and re-building.  As much as I loved that apartment it makes me so sad to see those amazing old homes that  could have still been there today had someone stood up for restoring and saving them!