WHY???HOW???WHEN???

Dan and I were home on Sunday, July 17th and were bored as our church had gotten out early and Brigham was out of town. To cure our boredom, we decided to go on a drive since it was such a beautiful day. We grabbed our real estate key just in case we saw an empty house we wanted to go into and left for a "drive."

We drove around Lehi and Highland and then decided to go to our new favorite park - the Alpine Splash Park. This park is located in a beautiful bowl of mountains and is green and peaceful. We began driving down the streets looking at people's homes and their landscaping - I know - weird huh, but we like to do this! We see an empty house on a BEAUTIFUL street and decide to go in.

First we walk around the yard and it is HUGE, needs a lot of work, but huge none the less. Dan and i begin talking about how we would love a yard this size and what we would do to the yard to improve it. We then go inside the house and although we can see that it has been painted and new carpet has been installed, we walk through and discuss what "improvements" it really needs to be great. We do both agree however that with some work and with some work on the yard - this home would be great, because of where it is located.

We actually stayed a few hours and once it got dark, decided it was really time to go home. On the drive home we talked about how great that house would be and how we would love to have a yard that size and to be so close to the Splash Park would be amazing! Then before you know it - we had both agreed that if that is what we would like -then let's make an offer and see if the seller bites!

So Monday morning first thing we write an offer and by Monday night we have received a counter offer and counter offered back and before you know it, we and the seller come to an agreement and are under contract! It is now Thursday morning and we have already re-designed the entire house, met with contractors and subs, painters and landscapers and plan on closing in two weeks. The beauty of all of this is that we will not list our home for a couple of months, since homes sell so quickly in Highland, in order to stay somewhere peaceful and nice while we are in the middle of a remodel!

Moral of this story - when you are bored on a Sunday - take a NAP!