Silicone Slopes, Utah

[Laura Johnson]

Hello all :-) My name is Laura, I'm a wife and mother to four children, 3 in school and one still at home. We live in North Utah county close to silicon slopes area. I've been following BiggerPockets for the past six months or so. I follow the Utah thread and have been listening to the BiggerPockets money podcast.

My husband and I are currently looking to find a new home that has a basement apartment for us to rent out. We are planning to keep our current home in Cedar Hills as a rental.we are new to the real estate idea, although my father in Missouri is very into purchasing small properties in his areas. He does quite well with this, but it's a whole different ballgame here in Utah. He's purchasing properties for less than what my down payment will be on a place in Utah lol. I've been trying to do a lot of research, and we've been following the market for approximately a year or so. We have a very definitive list of what we want, which is pretty much a unicorn! Last year there was probably 10 properties came through that would have worked for our situation, but not all of them were in our price point.

Anyways, just thought I'd drop a line and say hi. From what I've seen so far, this is a fantastic forum group with lots of people willing to jump in and share information. I'm really enjoying it!