Houses #4, 5, and 6

House #4 was a 3 bedroom, 1 bath home on 9th North in Bountiful, just a few streets away from Jason's parent's house. I really liked this one, but I think Jason is right when he says that it is just too small. It's only about 1050 square feet. It had a great front yard, with two nice, big shady trees, but the backyard was really narrow. There was also a nice big side yard. The inside of the house was beautiful! It wouldn't need anything. I liked everything about it, except for the fact that the third bedroom was really narrow and there was only one bathroom.

House #5 has great curb appeal, don't you think? It has 3 bedrooms and one bathroom, and it's in a beautiful neighborhood with nice houses and nice yards. This house's backyard was fabulous. It had a covered patio in back with thick, lush grass, landscaping, and a huge garage and a storage shed. We really liked the yard! The inside of the house was ok, but had some things that needed to be updated. It looked like a little old couple had been living in this house for 40+ years. Overall, the house was in good condition, but here are the things that would need to be changed:

• Strange patterned carpet in the two back bedrooms: stripes in one room, floral in the other. The carpet was nice and thick and in good condition, so we could live with it for a few years until we could afford to replace it.
• Two of the closets (a bedroom closet and the utility closet) had those folding accordion doors that are used in LDS chapels to divide the gym. Weird. But probably easily replaced.
• The bathroom and kitchen were sadly outdated. The kitchen needed new tile on the countertops and backsplash (and maybe new cabinets) and the island was just old. The bathroom looked like it had all the original fixtures.
• There was some wood paneling that needed to be painted.

I liked the house a lot, but now that I have everything listed, I think it might be too much to take on.

House #6. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Didn't like it. It's weird with that carport addition, and the house looked like it hadn't been taken care of very well. Every room had chipped paint or peeling wallpaper--all easily fixed, I know. One of the bedrooms had white splatters all over the hardwood floor. The kitchen cabinets were outdated. The master bathroom had a tub, but no shower. And the backyard... yikes. Horrible grass (they had dogs), no landscaping, no shade, and the cement slab that was supposed to be the patio was crumbling and cracked. Even though this house needed less intense work, I didn't like it. The neighborhood wasn't as nice--it looked like all of the houses were poorly cared for.

So, probably nothing yet. But we have several more to see on Monday night.