Resources
Read First, Decide Later.
Most people find this site a year before they are ready to do anything. That is fine — this is the material worth reading in the meantime.
No form to read any of it.
The six areas
What this site covers in depth
Five of these are the content pillars from the brand direction. The sixth — land — is the one that only applies out here.
Moving to Southern Utah
Choosing between towns rather than between houses: elevation, drive times, services, internet, and what winter actually does.
Land & acreage due diligence
Water rights, wells, recorded access, perc tests, power runs and financing. The questions to ask before you offer — not answers off a website.
Downsizing
What it means to leave acreage: the outbuildings, the equipment, the shop and the barn, and the order that keeps it from collapsing into six weeks.
Sell & move
Marketing a rural property to buyers who are not in your town, selling land, and sequencing the sale against the move.
Behind the move
Fourteen years of moving Southern Utah households: closing gaps, storage mistakes, what breaks and why, and what a rural move actually costs in time.
Helping a parent move
Coordinating a rural property from out of state — what genuinely needs you present and what does not.
Guides in preparation
Three downloads, not written yet
Not available yet
Three guides are planned, and it is worth saying plainly that they do not exist yet rather than putting a download button on a file that is not there:
- Moving to Southern Utah Guide — the towns, compared properly, with the practical facts in one place.
- Land Due Diligence Checklist — every question to put to the county, the water company, the utility and your lender, in the order to ask them.
- 60-Day Sell & Move Plan — week by week from first sort to move-in.
In the meantime the same material is on the pages above, free and without a form. If you want the land checklist before it is finished, ask and I will send you what I have.
What you will not find here
No market reports, and why
Most agent websites carry a monthly market update with a median price and a days-on-market figure. This one does not, and that is deliberate.
In towns of four hundred people, a "median sale price" is computed from a handful of transactions and swings wildly on the composition of that handful. Published as a statistic it looks authoritative and is close to meaningless — and a seller who prices against it, or a buyer who anchors on it, is being misled by a number I cannot stand behind.
When I have data wired to a real source, there will be market pages. Until then, ask about a specific town or property type and I will show you what has actually happened with genuinely comparable properties, including how thin the sample is.
Reading rather than buying?
Good. Ask the awkward questions now — they are much cheaper before an offer than after one.