Sandy Real Estate

Mormon Pioneers came to the Sandy area in the 1860s. Back then it was just a farming community with few people and widely spaced homes. Then when mining began in the nearby canyons and the railroad was built in the area in 1877, Sandy changed from being a small quiet village to a booming mining town. Sandy was even named for the red-headed train engineer called “Sandy” Kinghorn.  Sandy was incorporated as a city in 1893 with a population just over 1000 people. Today Sandy has grown to become a large suburban community with a steady population of nearly 100,000 citizens!

Sandy is home to the South Towne Center shopping mall, the Jordan Commons entertainment and dining complex, and the Southtowne Exposition Center. It is also the location of the soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium, which hosts Real Salt Lake home games.  With this many venues in the city, there is always something exciting going on in Sandy.

It’s convenient location so close to the canyons offers a variety of recreation activities to residents, including skiing, rock climbing, hiking, fishing, camping, etc, and being so close to I-15 makes anywhere in Salt Lake County an easy commute from Sandy.

Sandy Housing Market Statistics

Consistent with Utah real estate trends, home prices in Sandy are more affordable than they have been in years. The low prices combined with the large volume of both new and existing homes available makes now the perfect time to consider purchasing a home in Sandy.

Sandy Real Estate Professionals

Garbett Homes

Garbett Homes offers quality, affordable homes and town homes that fulfill your need not only for a place to live, but your need for a home that reflects your personal style.

Garbett Homes was started in 1988 by Bryson Garbett. In the twenty plus years that they have been building homes they have been awarded “Community of the Year” awards multiple times. Garbett Homes offers affordable homes built with style and class in mind. Garbett also offers the most up-to-date technology and design available. Take for example The Solaris Collection at Daybreak. Garbett has teamed up with internationally renowned KTGY architects to design and build Utah’s first truly affordable solar-powered home!

This kind of innovation and dedication to excellence has helped Garbett establish a solid reputation among Utah real estate professionals and with town home prices starting as low as $120,000 there has never been a better time to look in to buying a new Garbett Home that will fit your lifestyle!

Garbett Homes Experts

Home Improvements

It’s a holiday weekend and at the RedSign team we know what that means … honey-do lists and home improvement projects!

A lot of us associate home improvement with tearing down walls, replacing cabinets, and generally make a huge mess for weeks, sometimes even months. The truth of it all is that home improvement can be loosely defined as anything that adds to the appeal, value, or desirability of your home. With this definition in mind, then we can begin to see that home improvement doesn’t have to be so hard.

Tips From Doityourself.com

1. Rips, tears or cracks on items such as lawn chairs, suitcases, automobile seats and window screens can easily be fixed with transparent duct tape. The “clear” benefit is that this duct tape is transparent when applied, so repairs are less noticeable.

2. Not happy with the look of your drapery hardware? Get a pegged coat rack that is the same width as your window and paint it to match the decor. Screw the board into place across the top of the window and hang tab-top curtain panels over the pegs for a fun new look.

3. To mend a cracked porcelain sink, use an epoxy adhesive (available at a local hardware store). First, follow the package directions for preparing the epoxy mix (do not use fast-drying epoxy). Make sure the sink surface is completely dry, and use a toothpick to fill the crack with the epoxy adhesive mixture.

These are all simple ideas that don’t take a lot of time, yet really can help make a difference in the overall appeal of your home.  You’ll get a lot of satisfaction out of doing these simple things yourself. Who knows? Maybe you’ll like the result so much you can build up the courage to try something bigger – like remodeling your old bathroom!

Utah Real Estate Experts

The RedSign team has been helping people buy and sell Utah real estate for yours. With a team of highly trained, licensed, and friendly real estate professionals, we are confident that the RedSign team will provide you with the quality real estate service you deserve! Contact us with any questions.

Feng Shui

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive energy flow. You might find Feng Shui to be a useful tool to increase the aesthetic feel of your home for your own enjoyment or when staging your home for potential buyers.

Here are  10 tips you can use to increase the Feng Shui  in your home.

1. The most important Feng Shui tip of all: clear and clutter! Ask yourself two questions about every item in your home: Do I love it? Is it useful to me right now? You need a YES to at least one- preferably both- of those questions to retain the item. Otherwise, it’s not only NOT doing any good, it’s taking away some of the positive chi (life force energy) that might otherwise surround you.

2. Make your entryway inviting; Use mats, wreaths, banners, flags, color-whatever works for YOU- to design an entry that is alive, for the front door is the portal for all the Good of the Universe to come your way.

3. Claim your space! Make sure you have house numbers and your name clearly identified at your home’s entry. If people can’t find you easily and effortlessly, the Universal Abundance will have a hard time getting to you as well.

4. Make sure all your doors and drawers do not stick. All should open easily and effortlessly. Don’t put up with little aggravations, because they drag down energy- yours and the home’s- in a BIG way.

5. Replace all the burned-out light bulbs in the home and consider upping the wattage in key areas. Light is life! It’s goo chi. Efforts to find your soul mate or your career or good health can be helped by simply putting a little light on the subject.

6. Never seat yourself in a vulnerable position. Have a view of the doorway from your chair, don’t sit with your back to the door. Ditto for the bedroom. Your headboard should not be along the same wall as the door. When you sit up in bed, you should be able to view the doorway across the room, but NOT be in the direct line of the doorway with your feet pointing directly out the door.

7. Use ALL the burners on your stove top to invite multiple avenues of prosperity into your life. Each burner represents one avenue of prosperity, so don’t limit yourself and think that all your abundance comes just from that one paycheck.

8. Assure a meandering flow through your home, with no obstacles to your path. Feng Shui is all about bringing nature’s flow indoors. Any obstacles to free, easy movement INSIDE your home can out picture as obstacles to health, relationship, career, etc. OUTSIDE those walls.

9. Remember: “Wherever the eye goes, the chi goes”. Pull your attention to that which pleases and uplifts you.

10. Use the Three Secrets to Reinforcement in every Feng Shui “cure” you implement. “Cures” are the actions you take to change the energy of your home. You make those “cures” triply-effective by incorporating body, mind AND speech in all your efforts. Take an action, speak to your intention AND envision that glorious outcome coming true. Each of those elements- actions, words and thoughts- are powerful and can change the world. Imagine how life-changing it can be to incorporate all three!

We hope that you find these tips useful, whether you use these tips to improve your own home or when staging your home to sell.

Please contact us with any questions you may have about about increasing your home’s value and preparing your home to sell. We at the RedSign team are excited to help you with all of your Utah real estate needs!

West Valley City Real Estate

There’s never been a better time to relocate to the West Valley City real estate market.  The downtown area of West Valley has gone through major renovations in recent years. Valley Fair Mall recently received a facelift and several new restaurants and business have moved into the area, making West Valley City an even more desirable place to live.

West Valley City is currently building a downtown metro community called Fairbourn Station.

West Valley offers affordable housing, a plentiful job market and a prime location.  West Valley residents  are a mere 10 minutes from Salt Lake International Airport, enjoy easy access to Bangerter Highway and I-215 and have a new TRAX line opening in 2011, making a commute to anywhere in  Salt Lake County a breeze.

West Valley is also home to one of the largest corporate parks in the area and has drawn in big businesses like Discover Card, Franklin Covey, and FedEx. These companies have helped create a healthy job market in the West Valley area.

Not only is West Valley a great place to live and work, it’s also a great place to play! West Valley is home to  Maverik Center, Hale Center Theater and the USANA Amphitheater, which offer all sorts of entertainment opportunities. The West Valley Fitness Center is also a major draw with its outdoor pools and water slides, ice skating rink, exercise equipment and more.

West Valley City Real Estate Trends

West Valley City, consistent with Utah real estate trends, has experienced a decrease in home prices over the past couple years however is now starting to recover a bit. There are a large number of new and existing homes available at bargain prices.

West Valley City Real Estate Professionals

The Red Sign Team has been helping people interested in buying or selling West Valley City real estate for years. Our experts are familiar with West Valley City real estate trends and Utah real estate in general. We are confident that we will be able to provide you with the friendly, knowledgeable and experienced real estate service that you deserve. Whether you are interested in listing your home or buying a home, we encourage you to Contact us today!