{"id":52,"date":"2004-06-30T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2004-06-30T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T04:00:55","slug":"house-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"House Hunting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So to date, we have put out 6 offers on 5 homes. We started house hunting on April 25, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Offer #1: 2bd \/ 1ba home with remodeled kitchen, center patio, 1 room &#038; bath down, large lot, 2 blocks from the beach; sold for $132k over the asking price!<\/p>\n<p>Offer #2: 2bd \/ 1 ba home with remodeled kitchen, wine storage, 1 room &#038; bath down, 1 block from the beach; listed at $599k, our offer was ranked as the 4th highest offer.<\/p>\n<p>Offer #3 &#038; 6: Cute 2 bd \/ 1 ba home, with 1920s detailing, GORGEOUS yard, room &#038; bath down, listed at $629k&#8230;they rejected our preemptive offer. We resubmitted as they had only handed out 6 disclosures. Offered backup status if we offered $740k. Non, merci.<\/p>\n<p>Offer #4: 2 bd \/1 ba home, french doors leading to terraced garden, 2nd bedroom, not really a bedroom, a bit smaller than the others, but nice locale, listed at $599k&#8230;we weren&#8217;t even a front runner.<\/p>\n<p>Offer #5: 2 bd \/ 1 bath home with dine-in kitchen, 2 rooms and bath down, garden with a small cottage, listed at $565k. Offered backup status.<\/p>\n<p>Though the interest rates are climbing up, there still is a great demand for homes. So, according to the rules of supply &#038; demand &#8211; I don&#8217;t think that the housing prices will fall. Hopefully though, there will be less competition out there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So to date, we have put out 6 offers on 5 homes. We started house hunting on April 25, 2004. Offer #1: 2bd \/ 1ba home with remodeled kitchen, center patio, 1 room &#038; bath down, large lot, 2 blocks from the beach; sold for $132k over the asking price! Offer #2: 2bd \/ 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}