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The other day I was running around Salt Lake and decided to try and find a Harmons grocery store for one of their dynamite salad bar lunches.
In .5 miles, turn left. *looking*
You have arrived. *looking frantically*
Make a U-turn. *looking back*
This is not a Harmons. Right?
Right? How could it be the beloved traditional giant grocery store of my youth?
This Saturday marks the annual Historic Home Tour here in Park City. As a Realtor I have unfettered access to pretty much any house on the market. But the historic home tour is fantastic in that I get access to historic homes that are not for sale. Every year the Park City Museum arranges a selection of homes in a few block section of the Old Town historic district.
This year is the lower Woodside Ave and lower Park Ave tour. You purchase a ticket (early on the website or at the event), they give you a sticker to identify yourself with and a pamphlet of all the houses on the tour with their histories and old photos. The pamphlet by itself is worth the $20 (or $15 if you’re a museum member). Then you simply walk from house to house, spend as much time as you like ogling the doorknobs, perusing the historic documents and artifacts owners typically have displayed. A panel of people passionate about preservation.
(Alliteration for the win.)
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My Quick Location Video series addresses what I see to be a pretty common theme in real estate, rental, and tourism: the writer just assumes you know what the names are for all the areas and that you know what those names mean. I’m guilty of falling into that trap myself, so here is my attempt to absolve myself. These 1-2 minute videos will just give you a quick rundown of what you can find in the area and what some of the key features are.
Today’s location is very specific, Park Station condos, at the bottom of Main Street between Park Ave and Deer Valley Drive in Old Town. Here I walk through one of the condos currently for sale to give you a layout as well. (Please note, this is not my listing, but is listed by a colleague of mine at Jess Reid Real Estate.)
For the moment, listing details can be found here.
***UPDATE: This house is gone, baby gone. Allegedly receiving 5 offers and has closed.***
Shopping for Old Town opportunities means looking for these things:
My friends, I have found a property that ticks 7 of the 8 boxes. This house at 501 Park Ave is ready for a new owner, and is a real opportunity.
It’s not my listing (listed by Coldwell Banker – Union Park), and we would absolutely want to verify that it actually has escaped the historically significant designation (because if it is historic then you will be very limited by what you can do). But this cutie is on the market at the moment for $950,000, next to the 5th St staircase, has a two-car garage, was heavily remodeled in the 1990s, and is on one of the easier parts of upper Park Ave. Being next to the staircase means you get the feeling of a giant Old Town lot but you don’t have to pay the tax bill or purchase price for it! Remodeled homes with that proximity in Old Town trade for over $2M.
Oh, and while I was filming this video another Old Town agent showed up WITH clients. So, as they say, THE TIME TO HESITATE IS THROUGH. Call me if you’re interested, this one won’t last long.
My Quick Location Video series addresses what I see to be a pretty common theme in real estate, rental, and tourism: the writer just assumes you know what the names are for all the areas and that you know what those names mean. I’m guilty of falling into that trap myself, so here is my attempt to absolve myself. These 1-2 minute videos will just give you a quick rundown of what you can find in the area and what some of the key features are.
Part of my Quick Location Video series, where I do a quick AND DRAMATIC rundown of the different areas of Park City, Utah. Today’s location is very specific, Three Kings condos in Old Town. Bordered by Park City Golf Course, Glenwood Cemetery and Park City Resort’s base area. Underground assigned parking. Clustered townhouses in a horseshoe configuration to take advantage of the ample open space. Here I walk through one of the condos currently for sale to give you a layout as well. (Please note, this is not my listing, but is listed by a colleague of mine at Summit Sotheby’s International Realty.)
Okay it’s been a long time coming but I promise, you won’t be disappointed. Click to read my April 2016 newsletter! (Only 5 hours to spare, too)
Look, we’ve all tried to throw together a PB&J and didn’t have room temperature butter. Even worse, how about busting out the stand mixer for cookies but you didn’t think to pull out a few sticks to start warming up? I’d heard about this trick forever ago but never tried it, mostly because I had a microwave and could fake room temperature pretty easily.
Those days are over. Now that I’m operating sans microwave, I’ve had to test out this old wives’ tale. And guess what? IT WORKS. Better than microwaving, even.
Partially unwrap a stick of butter, using the wrapper to shield your hand while you grate. Grate that stick like it’s a block of butter. The tiny pieces hit room temp super quickly and you can get on with your life.
Onward.
There are some houses that are fine. Just that, fine. When I walk through them I don’t feel any real connection, it’s all just numbers: is this a good area, is this a good floorplan, is it priced well, could it be rented. And then there are houses that I LOVE and it becomes my duty (heh) to find somebody perfect for that house.
2 Thaynes Canyon Way is one of those houses. (Click here to view the listing.)
As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for.
Every day, I drive 30 minutes up a winding mountain canyon, typically surrounded by cars and semis going 80 miles an hour. There is a quarter of a lane between the painted line on the pavement and the cement barrier keeping you away from the side of the mountain. People around you are texting, it’s windy, big trucks create their own vortex; you are often not in your own lane. To stay on track you have to look ahead quite a ways. The secret is to never look at the wall. If you look at the wall you will hit the wall.
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As part of my continuing series, “Tips to Help Your #Hustle,” here is another quick tip to help dominate in your working life. The sooner you conquer your career the sooner you can be free to start living the life you’ve worked so hard for. For me, that life happens up high in the mountains of Park City, Utah.
Adding Audible to my life has dramatically improved my book club performance. DRAMATICALLY. And it’s been interesting too. I don’t care for when the narrator changes the word “book” to “audiobook.” Like, it wasn’t written as an audiobook, so to say “When I sat down to write this audiobook, …” that isn’t what the author intended. And a note about hi we’re changing chapters would be nice too. But I digress.
The book I just finished on Audible was Thrive by Arianna Huffington, read by her sister Agapi Stassinopoulos. There are a lot of uncomfortable comments on the narration but I thought Agapi’s accent was beautiful and when Arianna writes about her mother’s death you can hear it in Agapi’s voice. There you are, driving along, next thing you know you’ve stumbled in on a very intimate moment, listening to a daughter describe her mother leaving this world, and JFC WHERE ARE THE TISSUES I’M SORRY OFFICER I’M FINE IT’S JUST THIS BOOK ON TAPE.
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Kristina Watkins, Summit Sotheby's International Realty 