{"id":9,"date":"2009-02-05T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-02-05T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T19:26:12","slug":"real-estate-onomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate-onomics"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had our house up for sale now for over a year.\u00a0 This was our starter home, our son is now in school, and we now have an extra dollar or two coming in each pay check, so it’s time to upgrade.\u00a0 This was the time we’d always planned on since buying this house almost 8 years ago.<\/p>\n

Yeah… I know.\u00a0 :-\/<\/p>\n

In the first 6 months, we didn’t even have a single person inquire as to looking at it.\u00a0 Since then, we’ve had about 5 showings.\u00a0 And while I don’t want to derail this post with a separate topic, WTH is with people only giving an hour’s notice to look at a house?!?!\u00a0 Seriously, probably 4 out of those 5 showings we had between 45 minutes to an hour and half to vacate the house!\u00a0 But anyway… our original notion of trying not to take a loss on the house from our original purchase lasted all of about 3 months.\u00a0 After 6 months, we just went directly to rock bottom where we wouldn’t have to pay additional money just to vacate.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 Honestly though, it’s not that bad… as much as we lose on the house, we’ll be be making back twice over since we’re looking to buy a more expensive house.\u00a0 Sounds great…<\/p>\n

Step 1 – Put lower priced house on market for 70 – 80% of it’s value
\n…
\nStep 3 – Buy higher priced house for 70 – 80% of ITS value… Profit<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

There’s just one thing missing…<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Obama has a plan<\/a>.\u00a0 You see, Kristin did some volunteer work during his campaign and, well… let’s just say we’re tight.\u00a0 He’s heard of our predicament and has taken an interest.<\/p>\n

The idea is that if you buy our house, for 70 – 80% of its value, Obama will give you a 10% rebate!\u00a0 Round that to the nearest non-annoying figure and that’s roughly $15,000.\u00a0 And it’s not like those fictitious retail, cut-off-the-UPC-code, mail-an-8-page-form-to-some-fake-address, and pray-to-something-holy, kind of rebates… no, this is government backed, guaranteed, by God!<\/p>\n

Then we’ll go buy a house, and you know what?\u00a0 Obama’s going to give us, $15,000, too!\u00a0 No, seriously.\u00a0 It’s true.\u00a0 Now… for a limited time only, if you act now and promise not tell the government that we may be tinkering with their rebate program in new and possibly dangerously innovative thinking, we’ll split our $15,000 with you.<\/p>\n

You’ll just have to cut the UPC code off the foundation and mail it in to 22 Twain, Station City, PA, 90210.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had our house up for sale now for over a year.\u00a0 This was our starter home, our son is now in school, and we now have an extra dollar or two coming in each pay check, so it’s time to upgrade.\u00a0 This was the time we’d always planned on since buying this house almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,11,9],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant","tag-house","tag-obama","tag-real-estate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}