{"id":1394,"date":"2014-05-03T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2014-05-03T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:44:58","slug":"well-so-much-for-that-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Well, So Much for That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a strong and generous offer on a condo that actually met most of my standards yesterday. It was not accepted.<\/p>\n<p>So be it. It&#8217;s a competitive market for buyers, so I&#8217;m willing to make strong offers promptly. I am not, however, willing to be a seller&#8217;s doormat.<\/p>\n<p>This particular seller wanted an open-ended rent-back at generous terms (basically, I&#8217;d run a slight loss while she was my tenant). If that&#8217;s the sort of crap I have to agree to in order to become a homeowner in today&#8217;s market, I don&#8217;t want to be one.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m not giving up quite yet. I&#8217;m still keeping an eye on the market and will make offers on other suitable properties as they become listed.<\/p>\n<p>But if I keep running into stuff like this, forget it. Ownership is merely a tool, not an end goal. Other tools exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a strong and generous offer on a condo that actually met most of my standards yesterday. It was not accepted. So be it. It&#8217;s a competitive market for buyers, so I&#8217;m willing to make strong offers promptly. I am not, however, willing to be a seller&#8217;s doormat. This particular seller wanted an open-ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}