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KSL Newsradio's Chelsea Hedquist reportingWho says you need a husband to buy a home? More and more single women are snapping up real estate.
Lindsey Christensen proudly shows off the Sugarhouse home she purchased a little more than a year ago,"
"And then I have downstairs, which is the same amount of space. And this is my kitchen. Another thing, I took out carpet in the kitchen, took off wallpaper," she said.
Christensen, who is single, had never owned a home before, and was a bit nervous when she bought this house. But she's been more than happy with her decision.
"It has been the best experience ever just because I've been moving around, moving around, state to state," she said. "And it's nice to have a solid place to come back to that's home."
Christensen isn't the only one thinking that way these days. Last year single women bought one out of every five homes sold - twice as many as single men, and two times what single women bought in 1981.
"It's really fun seeing the things that are happening now compared to when I started 24 years ago and what they can do now by themselves," said Salt Lake realtor Sally Domichel.
Still, there are some downsides to owning a house, as Candace Madsen found out when a tree fell in her back yard, knocking down power lines.
"I think the novelty has worn off and the reality has set in," she said. "It's really nice. I love my house, I love my neighborhood. But if anything goes wrong I have to fix it, I can't call the landlord."
But if you go into home ownership knowing that sometimes things like that will happen, Madsen says it can be very rewarding.
