Just prior to Christmas (like about 2 weeks prior) our furnace died. We woke up on a Sunday morning to a very, very cold house. Some time during the night the furnace gave up the ghost and refused to offer anymore warmth to us or the home. After some calls were made and making a decision between one very aggressive salesman and one very pleasant salesman, we made the made the right decision and went with the John, the very nice and not pushy salesman. We had to not only replace the furnace but also the air conditioning - all at the tune of $13,000+. We both gulped and gave them the go ahead. After being without heat in our home for over a week and a half, we were both ready to pay whatever amount we had to, to feel warm again! Our house got down to 53 degrees. We had a space heater in the master bedroom and one in Neal's office. We would hustle from one room to the next, closing the doors quickly behind us to keep what little heat the space heaters were providing, locked in those two rooms. This is the old furnace just before it was taken apart and hauled out.
And this is our new furnace all installed and keeping us toasty warm!
The best part of the story is that the furnace installers figured out why our basement was always so cold and they were able to put in air returns in the proper places. Now the furnace is able to operate efficiently and heat all floors of our home evenly. I didn't take a picture of the new air conditioner that works with the furnace to heat the home in the winter and cool in the summer.
After all this new stuff was installed we had to figure out how we were going to pay for everything. We had a couple options. While we were working through the options (we had a couple weeks from the furnace people to get them paid), Neal had a friend of his come and take pictures of the BMW and get it on KSL. Neal was asking $7900 for the BMW. As soon as it was posted on KSL, he had hundreds of hits and many people interested in it. One young man from Logan was the most persistent. He drove down from Logan with his mother and his grandfather. They took the car for a spin, checked it inside and out and the young man offered Neal $6,000. Neal told him that he wouldn't let it go for that so the kid asked him if he would be willing to take $7,000 and Neal told him he would. The kid had $6,000 in cash and went to his grandpa and got the other thousand and handed Neal $7,000 in cash. Of course after the bill of sale and title were all taken care of, Neal made a trip to the bank with the cash.
In the mean time, we had borrowed the $13,000 from Granite Credit Union to pay for the furnace and air conditioner. So after just three days we were able to go back to Granite and with the sale of the BMW and some of our savings, we were able to pay the loan off with only a $15.00 interest payment for the five days we had the loan.
It was amazing to us how everything just fell into place so quickly and we were left debt free!! Blessings, blessings, blessings. Mostly we are blessed to have a heated home during these cold winter months. We have so much to be thankful for living in America and having the wealth that we do.
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