Real estate offer

[Meilingkie]

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/15605-W ... /15669430/

An LDS church building for sale

[crossmyheart]

What I would give to be able to afford to live in Golden Colorado!

The suggestions though- a dog kennel or funeral home? Hmmm

[Just This Guy]

Wonder why are are selling. There are two branch buildings in my area that have had the branches dissolved. The buildings are no longer used, but they keep them for whatever reason. So why sell once building and not others? Don't think they can make enough of the sale to be worth letting it go?

It is interesting that they want to retain mineral rights, even after the property sells. They think that oil will be found under it?

[Kishkumen]

This really isn't any indication one way or another. LD$ occasionally sells property/meeting houses when deemed appropriate.

There was an LD$ meetinghouse in Taylorsville, UT that sold many moons ago. Some Evangelical church bought it. I know of another meetinghouse in Kearns, UT that a Vietnamese Catholic group now inhabits.

Yes, the church is struggling with membership currently, but selling this property is likely business as usual. I recently toured an LDS meetinghouse under construction in AZ. Most meetinghouses are designed and built with a 50-year life span - and this was built in '63. This building is old and may have simply spent it's planned useful life.

Interestingly, the seller (LD$, inc.) retain all subsurface mineral rights - Water, Oil, Energy, etc. The Lawd's Lawyers are pretty sly.

[Red Ryder]

I like this one better.

Feels more churchy....but a little pricey for my flock to fund through their tithes.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/12204-F ... /15797386/

This one fits my Korean church budget. Did I mention I'm opening a Korean Church?

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/80380-A ... /15792407/

The Korean Lord has inspired me to purchase this building for the church and rename it the Rice Bowl. I'll serve Korean BBQ and we'll bowl on Sundays for the sermon! Follow the Korean Lord, aim for the Pins through the straight and narrow lane, and keep your balls clean! Get knocked down, get up and try again! White Bowling shirts are required to hold the priesthood in my church, beer and bowling is required for membership.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1819-30 ... /14378477/

[Meilingkie]

Sorry Red Ryder

My balls aren’t that big....
Nor are the balls I play with.
Pool that would be, and classical billiards.

[2bizE]

I used to think it would be so cool to buy a church. There was a family who lived in an old LDS church where I grew up. They had a gym in their house. I don’t think I ever went inside, but it was something I thought would be neat to own.

[A New Name]

It they don't use the empty building, the state will start charging property taxes since it is not being used as a church. They have 1-3 years (different in every state). I'm sure Utah does NOT have this, but here in California, they sell the old building in a few years to avoid paying the taxes.

[moksha]

Very little retrofitting would be needed if sold to some other church. Perhaps changing the placard along with the writing on the door, making the baptismal font into a hot tub, and possibly putting a cross on top.

[FiveFingerMnemonic]

I have seen a stake center sold and turned into a funeral home in the Southern US. Seemed quite a good fit.

[Random]

I would never buy from a seller who insisted on keeping mineral rights, water rights, etc. If I buy property, I'm buying the whole thing (I think Colorado doesn't allow people to have water rights - for that reason, I'm not interested in moving to Colorado).

That said, I think it would be cool to buy a church and live in it. I'd prefer something with more personality than the meetinghouses the LDS Corp has built in the last 40 or so years, though.

[wtfluff]

The suggestions though- a dog kennel or funeral home? Hmmm

This is Golden Colorado - It must become a Brewery. (And restaurant. Why not?)

[Just This Guy]

There used to be a family in my ward that lived in a converted Protestant church. Even after adding several bedrooms, they had a HUGE living room/dining room (former chapel/santuary area). Also had a nice, industrial grade kitchen and plenty of more room to expand with a large unfinished basement.