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The National Association of Realtors published data recently showing that Salt Lake City homeowners gained an average of $238,240 in equity over the past decade.
In the past several years, rents have gone up substantially here, with Salt Lake County rents hiking 37%, Davis County up 42% and Weber County by just over 18%.
The mission of a tax collector is to provide the public with fair market value of real and personal property, and to comply with local laws that counties and our state have enacted for the taxing system.
Starting this month, people with bad credit may be able to get federally insured mortgages, thanks to other people getting new loans with good credit. I'm so not making this up!
I have a friend who works at a convenience store/gas station and loves his job because he gets to meet a lot of people in the neighborhood, and the pay is good. But he doesn't make a ton of money and is always complaining about the cost of rent.
The pit will be transformed from a huge pool of water and mud into a new hospital, but so many of us old farts have memories of the Sears that stood there that it was hard to see the diggers and dozers pull down the building this winter.
