Chris & Berna Sloan Tooele Homes 435-840-5029

Life outside Tooele County? From me? Say it ain't so! Well, apparently it's true.  Berna and I took this weekend to start a new tradition. I've written before about our annual spring "roady". With autumn in the air, we decided to add a second trip. Three couples  left Tooele on Saturday evening on our motorcycles. ...

As you must know by now, Berna and I are very active in the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce. Berna has served as the Chair of the Chamber Easter Egg Hunt for the past 4 years and each year it gets bigger and better. This year was more stressful than the others. The economy has made getting the donations, both of time and money more ...

Sometimes, being rural can be construed in a negative light.   We've all heard Foxworthy's "redneck" jokes.   But how about when it helps you buy a Tooele Home, or a house in Stansbury Park or Grantsville UT when you didn't think you could?  The USDA's Rural Housing programs may be ...

Corie Seymour's blog on getting a loan for a fixer upper that allows the home buyer to include the cost of the improvements to the FHA loan  was an eye opener. The loan has always been available, but was so difficult for the buyer to package that we had almost forgotten about it. Now if you keep the home improvements under ...

  GRANTSVILLE- UTAH RANCHETTE W/ FENCING AND CORRALS: Horse Property in Grantsville UTOne Acre Ranchette In Grantsville UtahOpen Floor PlanVaulted Ceilings with Plant ShelvesKitchen with Knotty Maple cabinets Large Master Suite with Grand Master TubOne full Acre with water3 Car GarageLarge Laundry room on main ...

It's that time again. Independence Day in Tooele. For those of you that have been reading this blog awhile, you will know the drill. For those of you that don't, here we go. The day starts off at 7am with the annual Tooele Chamber of Commerce breakfast. By 8am we'll have served nearly a thousand meals of ham & eggs with all ...

I remember not too many years ago, when many of us around here were questioning the logic of building a huge, multi-purpose recreation facility between Tooele and Grantsville UT. How could we justify all of the recreational stuff in a county our size? Indoor arena, outdoor arena, huge outdoor swimming pool (in Utah where it can only be open ...

The Pareto Principle is a statistical concept most commonly known as the 80/20 Rule.  It says 80 percent of the effects come from 20 of the causes. Apparently, the 80/20 Rule applies to foreclosures, too -- at least according to data compiled by foreclosure-tracking firm RealtyTrac. Based on data from May, 11 states accounted ...

Mortgage rates In Tooele County as well as around the country are inching up and in some cases they are more than inching,they are skyrocketing. Homes for sale In Stansbury Park, Grantsville and Tooele became more costly to buy in just a few hours of Home Mortgage rate volatility last week. To see what I'm talking about visit these blogs ...

As this week's signal that home buyers are returning to the market, both Existing Home Sales and New Homes Sales posted improvement versus month-prior figures this April. According to the National Association of REALTORS, the number of Existing Home Sales rose by 130,000 units in April. In Tooele County however existing home sale decreased ...