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A $5,000 incentive brought her family from Utah to Indiana
A family of four used a $5,000 municipal incentive to move from Utah to Indiana, buying a home for $273,000. The town also offered a YMCA membership and family proximity.
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McKenna Shamburg, 25, closed on a home in Vincennes, Indiana, for $273,000 in April 2026. The same house would have cost three times as much in Utah, she said.
The move came after the city offered her family a $5,000 relocation incentive, half paid at closing and the rest due after a year. A year-long YMCA membership sweetened the deal.
Shamburg said the membership has been a godsend. She can work out while the facility watches her twin toddlers. The first half of the cash incentive arrived at closing; the second is scheduled after a year, she said.
Her parents, her brother, and his family all relocated to Vincennes at the same time to open a pizza shop called Vinyl Pies. The move put her brother in daily contact with her children for the first time since their birth, she said.