Ogden

So this should be my last post EVER about Ogden. Here is a little recap of our experience with the millionaire inverstor group(TMIG), who helped us purchase the house in Ogden. If you still don't know the story of why we bought our that house here goes. A few years ago we were living in West jordan and I was interested in investing in Real Estate. I saw my friend Chad Bawden at a wedding. I asked him what he was up to for small talk and he told me about TMIG. They were a company that used peoples credit scores to purchase houses at 75% of market value. They would then resell it to me at full market price and use the difference of the money to fix up the house and have an emergency fund if we needed to get renters into. Then split all the profits. Sounded good,

Dan Debenham (Click here) was the guy in charge, a nice lds guy you could trust. I gave them power of attorney to buy house for me. I had fairly poor credit so they were only able to purchase this house. They bought it for $40,000 and sold it to me for $75,000. After like a year of owning the house I started getting notices from the banks saying the payments were late. I took matters into my own hands went to Dan's house on the hill probably worth 6 million dollars or so.
A little surprised at the size of the house and the hummer in the driveway i took the key and made the trek out to Ogden to see my investment for the first time. The roof had 5 layers of shingles on it. Which is illegal. The Plumbing was completley done wrong, some windows were replaced but done very wrong. The roof had completely caved in from the rain in one bedroom. The porch was sagging so much, the insurance company would not cover it.
So we tried to fix it up and sell it. We were unable to do so. We rented it out to two different tenants, both we had to evict for not paying. The second even took us to court for renting a house that was not in liveable conditions when he was the one who contacted me and wanted to rent it when I wasn't even listing it for rent. So finally with no end to the debt cycle we were in, we decided to sell our home in West jordan and use the equity money to fix up the house, live in it for a while and try to sell it (inspired by Dave Ramsey to get out of debt). Ogden was a very interesting place to say the least. We finally sold the house cut our losses and have moved on. We survived though with only a few small items being stolen from us. We are happy to say that today we are living essentially debt free exept for the house, which we love and will be living here for a long time. The video below is some clips i took while documenting the remodel experience. So If anybody out there is thinking of flipping houses or getting into real estate. Maybe this can help a little with the decision.



The house originally.








Before and after's of the kitchen.

Little Daisy's Ready for Summer!

I took these pictures of Daisy on Friday. She is so much fun! As soon as she sees a camera she starts smiling I LOVE HER!

Everybody's Comin

So here are some more photos and videos of Zade
and Daisy's birthday that we celebrated on Friday.
Thanks to everyone that came we had ton's of fun.
Zade is 3 and Daisy is 1. Earlier that day we went
to the TG point farm where we had ton's of fun and
Zade got to practice being a cowboy. The party was
at the lehi legacy center. It was pretty crazy but it
was great spending time with the family once again.
The photo on the previous post was taken by doug
at the party. Nice work doug!

Zade & Daisy's Birthday Party!!

More Photos to come.

What was i THINKING!?!?!

Today i feel like a failure of a mom. I let zade eat waffles for breakfast (Wich i think is just all sugar not a real breakfast) Then i went to go make lunch and we were out of almost everything so i decided to go to the store and get some food. Well by time we got home zade had fallen asleep in the van and i put him to bed for a nap. Then Doug brought over some pink cupcakes for us to enjoy! (THANKS DOUG THEY WERE YUMMY!!) So yummy that zade woke up from his nap. I was chatting with the neighbor and didn't notice that Zade had eaten 4 cupcakes and was on his 5th. In a panic i made him a grilled cheese sandwich but he was full from cupcakes so refused to eat more than a little tiny bite. Then he demanded Chocolate milk......Dinner roles around and he wants more chocolate milk with his Chicken noodle soup. He wasn't eating so i started the "Take a bite or go to bed" Bit. He ate 7 good bites and then looked up at me with that face.... The "Im going to hurl" face. So i grab him and run for the sink. To late.. He got me right in the face. and the whole kitchen was covered in pink stink. What a day.

HOW WELL DOES ZADE KNOW HIS DADDY????

well hes only 2.(Untill monday) but its still cute what he said



1. What is something dad always says to you?you can have a Popsicle
2. What makes dad happy? long pause...money so he can buy special dinner
3. What makes dad sad? i make him sad because
4. How does your dad make you laugh? he tickles me
5. What was your dad like as a child? he was a baby like mine
6. How old is your dad? 6
7. How tall is your dad? way big
8. What is his favorite thing to do? mmmm... something Popsicles
9. What does your dad do when you're not around?i run around and when i eat a bunch and then i found candy was in the eggs and thats why i love him
10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for?it will be 6 and 29 and 5
11. What is your dad really good at? really good at work
12. What is your dad not very good at? he is good... he is good
13. What does your dad do for his job? he fixes my treehouse.lets go get another popsicle blue popsicle please
14. What's your dad's favorite food? popsicles and dinner... i like popsicles mmm popsicles bule popsicles mm
15. What makes you proud of your dad?he makes me happy
16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be? super why and spiderman daddy
17. What do you and your dad do together? make dinner and a game
18. How are you and your dad the same? makes me money to buy dinner
19. How are you and your dad different? that makes me happy
20. How do you know your dad loves you? he does hug me
21. Where is your dad's favorite place to go? he likes to go to the temple

Itty Bitty Ball

Zade started itty bitty ball on tuesday. It's an introduction to some of the major sports like baseball, basketball football and volleyball. The first day was baseball.
He was a little nervous at first but had a ton of fun playing and interacting with the coach and the other kids. It's so fun watching your kids grow up and experience new things. I love Zade so much he is so full of energy.