cedar city utah real estate: Sunday Time for Photos from the Week.....
- 08/21/11 04:06 PM
I thought that I would share some of the photos that Darcy and I took during our work week. These actually come from Beaver County, although in our MLS system, it isn't an area that we will typically work. It is a little too far away with gas prices where they are! Anyway it is a beautiful area, with some great small towns.
Beaver County Looking South from Greenville
As you can see, there is a lot of wide open spaces.
A view Northwest from SR21
This one was just a fun shot!
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cedar city utah real estate: An Idea That May Make Things a Little Easier....
- 08/21/11 03:54 AM
I am sure that all agents will come across this scenario, especially now with the economic conditions. Elderly parents deed their home that they own free and clear to all of their children. The elderly parents die, and one of their children want to keep the house, but due to the economy, they can't qualify for a purchase mortgage. Their credit isn't so bad that they could probably do a refinance in time. The problems is that the othe children want their share of the house, they may even need their share of the proceeds from the sale of the house.
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cedar city utah real estate: County Fairs....
- 08/20/11 04:34 AM
The County Fair Season is upon many of us. There is nothing quite like a county fair, it is a celebration of a community or groupsl of communities. We hold our Iron County Fair in Parowan. The Fair Grounds are on the East side of town and are a nice facility to host the fair. There are carnival style rides, exhibits and vendor booths. One of my favorite parts of the fair is the Art and Crafts that are on displayed and judged.
It is amazing the talent that some of the people have! I wish that I could remember all … (13 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Friday's Thought...Who Do You Look Up To???
- 08/19/11 08:20 AM
Yesterday Darcy and I were up in Beaver County taking pictures for a BPO, we got a few other photographs to share in blogs. We came across a tree truck and root ball that had long since died and had been removed from the ground. It was lying behind a fence in a yard with some other stuff. This had once been a mighty large tree, yet now dead, the bark removed, bleaching in the sun rays.
Once it had provided much needed shade from those very rays that are now bleaching it white. What happened? I don't know, I am … (8 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Localism Post...Southern Utah University rated The Best in The West....
- 08/16/11 04:39 AM
In the recent Princeton Review ratings Southern Utah University (SUU) was rated Best in the West. It scored at the top of 121 Universities! This is a major accomplishment, with high rating received in the quality of programs and ranking especially well in the quality of life category, (that score was 94!). SUU advertises a private school atmosphere at public school prices, meaning they have high standards, low student to faculty ratios and over all student satisfaction!
On the heels of this announcement, (okay in the Daily News article that I read) the University is announcing that this Fall there are … (10 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Subdivisions...Ashdown Forest...Market Update
- 08/15/11 12:17 PM
In the Cedar City Real Estate Market, Ashdown Forest is another newer subdivision in Cedar City. It is mostly custom, high end homes. It is a PUD so there are HOA fees associated with it. It was built mostly in 2005, there are still several choice building lots available to build your own custom home.
As I said, it is in city limits and is located at the North East side of Cedar City. Homes in Ashdown Forest range in square footage from 1500 to some that are around 5000 square feet. It is also located on the hill side, with … (10 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Southern Utah History...Butch Cassidy and the Shoot out...
- 08/15/11 08:02 AM
This is another in my series on Butch Cassidy, since I was in Moab with the last story, I will stick with that area. This like many of the stories that I have about Butch Cassidy, came from my father. I mentioned that my father knew many people that either knew Butch Cassidy, or the people that participated in the story.
Butch Cassidy was generally liked by those who knew him. The Lawmen at the time, were the exception to this. It wasn’t uncommon for Butch and his gang to go into a town for a drink or … (18 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Subdivisions...Hidden Hills and Hidden Hills Cove..Market Update
- 08/15/11 06:19 AM
Another new addition to the Cedar City Real Estate Marketis Hidden Hills Cove, it is a new subdivision, it is comprised of what I would call mostly move up homes. They aren’t quite executive homes, but they are larger homes on lot sized between 1/3 and 2/3 acres. There are still home sites available. Homes are listed in the $220,000.00 range currently.
It is a new subdivision and is inside city limits. There is currently one home listed at $215,000.
Market Update 4/23/2011: There is only one home listed for sale in the Hidden Hills Subdivision at $209,900. This subdivision is … (6 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Sunday's Thoughts and musings...Strawberry Jam..
- 08/14/11 05:55 AM
This morning Darcy and I are enjoying a late breakfast, not quite a brunch just a late breakfast. For some reason, the strawberry jam that I was enjoying reminded me of my childhood. Strawberry jam was something that my grandmother always would include with breakfast. This was something that I always thought that she would do just for me. It probably wasn't the case, she had 22 other grandchildren, but I don't know if any of them liked Grandma's strawberry jam as much as I did.
I even liked the strawberry jam that she would add rhubarb too, and I am … (17 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Fifty Years Ago Today...
- 08/13/11 05:50 AM
Fifty years ago today construction began on the Berlin Wall. For the majority of my younger life I believed that Wall would stand until long after I was gone. The wall has now taken on an almost a symbolic meaning at least for me. I believed that the wall stood for everything that was bad in the World, hate, ignorance intolerance you name it. That was what the Wall meant to me.
I believe that many of us construct walls in our lives. Maybe some of them are beneficial, I do believe that many are not. Some we construct ignorantly without … (19 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Subdivisons...Sunbow...Market Update 8/10/2011
- 08/12/11 04:51 AM
In the Cedar City Real Estate market, Sunbow is one of the great starter family subdivisions in Cedar City. It was built in the late 1970′s and early 1980′s. It consists of Single Family Units on .20 acre lots. There are currently 3 homes in Sunbow for sale. Prices range from $107,000 to $135,000. There are some split entry homes as well as some ranch style homes. Sunbow is also at the North end of the city limits, next to the Middle School.
Market Update 4/12/20100 There is currently 1 home listed for sale in our Multiple Listing Service. It is … (10 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Southern Utah History...Outlaw With Boundaries???...
- 08/11/11 05:55 PM
I am going to continue this series, mainly because I like writing this series. This is another of my Butch Cassidy stories. This story occurred in Moab, Utah. A little background to Butch Cassidy, no one can prove that he ever killed anyone, in fact the only documented person that he shot was his younger brother Dan. He told a Catholic Priest in Wyoming that if he had never killed anyone, that taking someone's life was the one thing that couldn't be repaid nor restored.
This story starts in one of the bars in Moabin the Fall of the year. … (11 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Thankful Thursday....Fraud Alert....
- 08/11/11 08:14 AM
I am thankful today that our parents instilled at least some common sense in Darcy and I. Today's scam is an email purportedly from the IRS complete with downloadable forms to be filled out, scanned then emailed back. The only problem is that the IRS does everything by snail mail! That and the know that you have "filed" your taxes, not field them.
The best part is that the returned email link said IRS.gov for the address! Be careful! Don't fall for this crap! The IRS will mail notices to you, they don't email them!
It almost makes me wonder what … (14 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Do You Ever Wonder Why......
- 08/11/11 05:39 AM
Do you ever wonder why there are certain people in this industry? I sure do! Monday, Darcy and I were in Los Angeles as I have blogged a couple of times about. We received a call from a potential client wanting to first look at a house then put a cash offer on the house. We told him that we were out of town, but that we would refer him to one of our associates who would take care of what ever he needed.
Our Associate called the potential client, got all of the information that he needed to proceed, … (12 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Subdivisions...Bladens Diamond Hills....Market Update 8/10/2011
- 08/10/11 09:05 AM
Last year I started a series of blogs about Subdivisions in the Cedar City Real Estate Market area. For some reason, I haven't done a blog on this series for several months. Today I wish to re open that series of blogs with a blog about a really nice subdivision on the East Side of Cedar City. This subdivision is a small one, only a couple of streets with a dozen or so homes.
These homes are mostly custom homes, it is very nice subdivision, one that I would live in if we were able to. There is currently only one … (7 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Back to Work Wednesday.....
- 08/10/11 05:46 AM
Darcy and I got back from California yesterday evening. It was a great time, I wasn't thrilled with the traffic, but everything outside of the traffic was just great. We had a blast! The game was great, and I will be honest, I expected upper level seats. (Darcy won the tickets on a twitter contest), instead they were field level down the Right Field Line. My seat lined up perfectly the First Base bag and the Pitcher's Mound.
Just a couple of hints, if you're driving between Las Vegas and Los Angeles on a Sunday, do it early! It really gets … (9 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Southern Utah History...Matt Warner...
- 08/07/11 03:44 AM
Before there was a Sundance Kid in with Butch Cassidy, there was Matt Warner. He was the first gunslinger in the gang. Matt Warner played for both teams in his lifetime. Matt Warner had the misfortune or maybe the good fortune to get caught and did time in the Utah State Prison for robbery. After he was released from prison the City of Price Utah hired him to be the Town Marshall, a position that he held until his death in the late 1930′s.
My father as a young man met Matt Warner in Price, and thought that he was a … (15 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: A good Sign in the Cedar City Housing Market????
- 08/05/11 03:24 PM
Darcy has been doing a lot of Brokers Price Opinions in the past several weeks. She was recently asked to do a BPO for a short sale that has a pending offer on it. I was surprised when she pulled all of her sold comparables as well as her listing comparables to find that that house has a market value significantly higher that the listing price. This hasn't happened for awhile.
The house was priced right when it was listed several months ago, but with the succeeding price drops, it is now under the market value. In fact, it is under … (9 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Cedar City Localism Post...Family Festival....
- 08/05/11 04:21 AM
Tonight and tomorrow night Cedar City is having a festival that is geared towards the family. There will be games and sports to play, softball, family basketball even wiffle ball. At 5 PM there will be a talent show on the stage at the Main Street Park. Tonight's activities wil culminate with a family movie at 9 PM under the stars in the Park.
I think that I heard that the movie is Gnomeo and Juliette, so it should be a good family movie. I am sure that there will be food available to purchase or bring it with you. This … (17 comments)
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cedar city utah real estate: Thankful Thursday...Life....
- 08/04/11 01:46 PM
I found a quote that made me stop and think. I know that everyone goes through troubling times. Nothing is easy, at least for very long. So I am thankful that in this life, I have adversity to make me a better person. It seems like there is always someone that handles life's ups and downs with such ease and grace that they never seem to have any adversity at all in their lives.
I aim to become like one of those people. I have a long, long way to go before I get to that point, but it is a … (14 comments)
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I thought that I would share some of the photos that Darcy and I took during our work week. These actually come from Beaver County, although in our MLS system, it isn't an area that we will typically work. It is a little too far away with gas prices where they are! Anyway it is a beautiful area, with some great small towns. 
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