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Show The Park Record A-24 PARK CITY REAL ESTATE AND YOU Craig Reece, CRS MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL CONCURRENT CLOSING Concurrent closing on two properties is common in real estate today because they eliminate die need to move Iwice and the net proceeds from the sale can be used as down payment on the purchase. A professional Realtor can minimize the sirens when two Iraasaclioas close on die same day. Timing is the most crucial issue because certain evenls must precede others, and all parties to the transaction (buyers, sellers, realtors, lenders, and title company) must be kept apprised of all details. Choose a date for the closing that will realistically allow enough time to complete all the required work. Then allow a few days extra, if possible! Avoid scheduling a concurrent closing on the last day of the month in order to avoid problems if a lasl-minule delay requires pushing the transaction into the next month. For a smooth transaction, it helps io schedule both closings at the same title company and with ihc same officer. The main benefit is timing in the traasfer of funds. Too long a delay can throw the transaction into the next day. If the properties are in different cities or states, it is be-iter to close on the home you are selling the day before closing the home you arc purchasing. For rock solid advice on buying or selling real estate, call Craig Reece at 435-647-8017 or toll free at 1-800-553-4666. Craig has been a full lime Park City resident since 1973 and a full-lime real estate agent since 1978. www.DeerValleySpeciaiist.com Craig @ DeerValleySpecialist.com Prudential (435) 647-8017 • (435) 649-7171 Utah Ronl Estate Saddltvirt JUKI I'Jik A 1'irk City um^i-.rk (800)553-4666 muf, Bidg B ]-(,e prud^ta! and'^l are registered tervice mart-s o! The Prudential insurance Company of , L I MO*O Amenca. Ecprf housngepporturcty. Eadi company Independently ovm«J and operated We -rrr TO Tues/Wed/Thurs, December 28-30, 2004 Groupsrefuserazing of guard stations OGDEN. Utah <AP) The Curl is Creek Guard Station is falling apart. The wood floors are weak. The roof trusses are failing. Mice infest the cabin. But even if it were in good shape, it wouldn't he used much by the U.S. Forest Service. There is a cabin close by thai is larger, has a shower and can be used as a base for most nearby summer operations, and other Forest Service employees can just drive from offices in Huntsvi'llu or Ogden. A Novemher reporl recommends the Ogden Ranger District cut its losses al Curtis Creek: "Decommission all buildings." Curtis Creek is just one of several outposts the Forest Service doesn't quite know what to do with. Gone are the days when the guard stations were integral parts of the Forest Service management strategy -- when rangers would spread out across the landscape. living for much of the year in primitive, scenic dwellings while tending to the work of forest management. oottt fiN© -flfltis w e OUR §f&e INTO jfMifHiy 200511! WITH Come in and see are beatuiful showroom filled with mountain elegant furnishings, accessories and rugs. Save 25-50% on most items. Our design team is well known for our personalised service and attention to detail. We're located at 1351 Kearns Blvd. ' or call us at 435-655-0134 for more dead Is reguardlng our annual year end liquidation eventl Almost all of the guard stations were built in the first third of the 20th century, when roads were rough and access to national forests was limited. Now. especially in "urban forests" like the Ogden Ranger District, it is easy for rangers to split their time between city offices and the backwoods of a national forest. "Now, it's almost easier to drive home," said Rick Vallejos, recreation planner for the Ogden Ranger District. Other siles have been rendered obsolete by technical advancements. Manned fire lookouts, for instance, have been mostly replaced by aerial observation. Some lookouts sit abandoned. Others are rented out to hardy campers ready to spend a few nights in rustic accommodations miles from any road. "If you like amenities, you're going to go to Las Vegas," said Vicki Lawson. who oversees the rental program for the U.S. Forest Service's Intermountain Region, which includes Utah, Nevada and parts of Idaho and Wyoming. But if you don't mind spending a weekend without high-speed Internet connections, cellphone service or even electricity, these could be for you. '"It's quiet. They're all very quiet." And, almost without exception, they are built "in the most stunning spots." "'Hiey needed to be located near the resources that they were working with. They're in remote locations, but they're very beautiful," Lawson said. Jiiere are only two Utah locations on the region's rental list of 43. One is the Warner Lake Cabin, a popular retreat in the MantiLaSal National Forest. The other is the East Fork of the Blacks Fork Guard Station in the Uinta Mountains. Warner Lake is often booked months in advance, especially for springtime excursions. East Fork is fairly popular in the winter as a snowmobiling retreat. Independently, the Ogden Ranger District has been less successful in finding people interested in renting old sites. Between 2001 and 2003, local ranchers explored the possibility of turning the Randolph Administrative Site into the base for a dude ranch. They even briefly started a restoration project there. But no one else was interested, so their interest waned. "They were never able to book any tours," Ogden district ranger Chip Sibbernsen said. The Monte Cristo Administrative Site, at the side of State Road 39 near the Monte Cristo Campground, was just taken off the rental market after being offered to snowmobilers for overnight reservations the last few years. "Reservations didn't pay for the cost to fill the propane tanks" for the winter, said Vallejos. (That bodes ill for the Logan district's tentative plans to rent out the Tony Grove Guard Station, another roadside ranger station in a popular snowmobile area, beginning next winter.) It's not that snowmobilers aren't interested in stopping in at old guard stations - visits are frequent at nearby Elk Valley, an old guard station now cared for by a Logan snowmobile group - but paying for an overnight stay has not proved popular. The Top of Utah Snowmobile Association adopted the Elk Valley Guard Station, 12 miles northeast of Hardware Ranch, in 1996 and now maintains it for winter use. Visitors who call ahead are even welcome to spend the night there; it's equipped with beds, a woodburning stove and a propane grill. Overnight stays do happen, but they are rare, said Rex Petersen, the cabin's main caretaker. The cabin gets plenty of daytime visitors, though, and it has come in handy more than once during search and rescue operations. "People know where they arc," Petersen said. "The Search and Rescue helicopters have GPS coordinates on them, and there arc places for them to land." The snowmobile association has also expressed interest in the likely doomed Curtis Creek Guard Station, which Peterson said is in an "even belter" snowmobiling location than Elk Valley. Hie terrain is higher, more rugged and gets more snow than the flat, lowelevation Elk Valley hut. The group is considering its Curtis Creek options. One is to fix the current structure, but Vallejos said it would probably be cheaper to knock the old one down and start over. The group has also talked about building a new one like it or placing a smaller, lcss-pcrmancnl yurt-lype structure in the area. The Forest Service, for its part, is open to suggestions. "Yeah, we'd like to sec their proposal." Vallejos said. Not all of the old ranger stations have fallen into disuse. Some are saved by their remoteness. A river ranger's cabin on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River is used more now than in Ihe 1970s when Vallejos spent the summer in it. The river's popularity for whilewater rafters and the cabin's distance from a road - rangers must reach the site by boat or air -keeps it in use. Closer to home. many, including Monte Cristo and Randolph, are used seasonally for storage and as a base for some summer operations. 'Hie Logan Hotshots fircfighting group is based in the Right Hand Fork Guard Station near Logan Canyon. The housing option does make it easier for foreign firefighters to sign up. said Connie McAughcy, recreation planner for the Logan Ranger District, but that didn't save it from a recommendation for demolition five years ago. Only public outcry, by the descendants of George Q. Rich, a Logan attorney who built the cabin in 1918, did that. The "major uprising" even convinced the Logan districl it should discard plans to knock down other stations in the area. "There's some kind of history lied up in all of them." MeAnghey said. <; U^As« IRUT^ krfcord.com I fin; ann( ners hire divisioi '^'tijaJhtXJ'a.---' Thc E f c t r ? ' . J*¥ raeriuor'vajuf, if aif y. of Hua property This is not an offer or solicitation in any state in which the legal requirement/; Tor .^ch an atfenng have not h c c n - m ^ : r ^ ^ ; ^ f e ^ ? f f i a y ^ Park Record PARK CITY, UTAH |