Buying
Utah first-time home buyer programs and grants
UHC loans, CDBG grants, and county assistance. What each covers, who qualifies, and how to stack them so cash-to-close drops to almost nothing.
Resources
Guides worth your time.
Plain-language pieces for Utah buyers, sellers, and borrowers. Written to answer the questions I get most often, without the sales pitch. Full pieces are being posted; in the meantime, ask me directly and I will send you the notes.
Mortgage
Utah mortgage rate trends and what they mean for your payment
How Salt Lake and Wasatch Front rates move vs. national averages, what market absorption means for your preapproval, and when to lock.
Buying
First home in Utah: what the numbers actually look like
Down payment, closing costs, reserves, and monthly carry. What a lender preapproval hides and what to ask for instead.
Buying
How to read a Utah listing before you tour
Taxes, HOA, land use, and the disclosures most buyers skim. Signal versus noise on the MLS.
Selling
Pricing that holds up at appraisal
How to price so your first offer is not your last, and why the highest offer is not always the best offer.
Selling
Prep spend that returns and prep spend that does not
Paint, floors, landscaping, staging: what actually moves the sale price on the Wasatch Front.
Mortgage
Preapproval vs prequalification: what actually holds
The difference lenders will not spell out, and the paperwork that turns a soft number into an offer sellers trust.
Mortgage
Should you refinance? The honest break-even math
Rate drop, closing costs, and your timeline. When the math works, when it does not, and when to wait.
Investment
DSCR loans in Utah, in plain English
How debt service coverage ratios actually get sized for Salt Lake and Utah County rents, and where DSCR beats a conventional investor loan.
Investment
Cash-out to buy the next property
The tradeoffs on rate, reserves, and cash flow when you tap equity to grow a portfolio instead of parking cash in one door.
Calculators
Run the numbers yourself.
Sixteen Utah calculators, no email required. Payment, affordability, rent vs own, cost of waiting, and more.
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