Chris & Berna Sloan Tooele Homes 435-840-5029

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 ...

I've spent the last year working on a Tooele Community committee made up of local business people, educators, the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce and Government officials called the "Come Together" committee.  It was started when the economy started to tank and local tax revenues also started to decrease. We started ...

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 ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year in Utah...if you're a political junkie like I am.  For most of you, it's a time of wondering "what are they going to do to me this year"?  So, what are they going to do?  Well, in Utah, with an 800 million dollar revenue shortfall (in a 10 billion dollar budget), ...

One thing I've noticed during the last couple of years is that if a Realtor, a Lender and a Home Buyer are having a discussion about Utah Real Estate they will more likely than not end up pointing fingers and stating the obvious.  These have been some tough times for those involved in any way with buying or ...

Real estate is still a good long-term investmentPresident’s MessageChris SloanA couple of weeks ago, I read an article from The Associated Press that detailed why, despite recent drops in home prices, “it still generally pays to own a home.” Although that may be hard to believe for the nearly 150,000 Utahan's who owe more on ...

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 ...

Bob and Mary thought they'd found their dream home, especially when they made an offer and the seller accepted it. All the closing preparations appeared to be moving smoothly until the appraisal came back significantly lower than the price they'd offered to pay, thereby jeopardizing their chances of getting financing on that particular ...

Even though the tax credit for first-time home buyers is set to expire Nov. 30, there is still time to take advantage of that program. Not only that, there are three new local incentives that could sweeten the deal even more.      One such program is a second round of grants for buyers of new construction. On Friday, Gov. ...

A couple weeks ago, KSL News aired a story about hidden transfer fees attached to real estate. KSL reported that some developers are requiring buyers to pay a transfer fee every time the property is sold as part of a covenant attached to the home's deed. The covenants generally require current and future buyers to pay a certain percentage of ...