Hi! I’m Gray. My partner/girlfriend/honeybear is Carinne!

We have two kitties together, so it’s safe to say that we are in a COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP™. Carinne also has four kiddos (she didn’t mention it in her Tinder profile, but she knows how to mix an amazing martini). One year into a lease on a two-bedroom apartment in Downtown SLC, things are getting a little crowded.

After years of working in the food service industry, as a commercial salmon fisherman, a carpet cleaner, ski lift operator, drug test monitor and various other jobs, we somehow found ourselves with what could be considered fairly decent salaries. Countless nights bickering, sibling spats, and unidentified odors, led us to determined that we needed a larger space. Observing how rent prices in the area for a three-beddie seemed about the same as a mortgage payment, we allowed our imaginations to wander into visions of possible homeownership.

This blog is a chronicle of our adventure in searching for a home at perhaps the worst time. Join us in our journey. Come see what passes for “affordable” in Salt Lake City. Come see what passes as “unaffordable” as well. We’ll share our hopes, heartbreaks and the rationalizations of homebuying in Utah.