{"id":272,"date":"2008-05-24T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-05-24T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T11:47:00","slug":"rental-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/rental-woes.html","title":{"rendered":"Rental woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So since we&#8217;re moving to a new house, we have decided to rent the home that we&#8217;re currently living in.  We decided that with the market the way that it is, even if we could sell it, we couldn&#8217;t get as much as we think it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>I put a sign out front and some ads on Craigslist.  We&#8217;ve had lots of interest.  I think that it&#8217;s priced appropriately and we&#8217;ve gotten a lot of the work done to &#8220;pretty it up&#8221;.  This is a good time of year too &#8211; lots of people moving around with the end of the school year and such.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that we&#8217;ve had 10-15 people actually show up and see the house.  Many of them have taken applications.  But nobody has returned them or taken the next steps.  Mostly they just disappear.  I used to try and follow up with people, but after thinking about it and discussing it with other landlords online, the consensus was that it was just a waste of time; if someone is interested, typically they are very aggressive about following up.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday we had 2 calls about people potentially interested in BUYING the house.  And I&#8217;ve started feeling like maybe we are supposed to sell the house.  Certainly if we could sell it, we could definitely use the equity that we get out of it.  So I&#8217;m going to post an ad in the for sale section of Craigslist and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really worried at this point.  I always have felt like God takes care of us.  I can point to several times in my life where things have maybe not happened as soon or the way that I&#8217;ve wanted to, but in the end, it always works out just fine, and usually in a better way than I&#8217;d have done it if left to my own devices.  First mortgage payment on the new house is due 7\/1 so we have a little more than a month before it starts to get dicey \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So since we&#8217;re moving to a new house, we have decided to rent the home that we&#8217;re currently living in. We decided that with the market the way that it is, even if we could sell it, we couldn&#8217;t get as much as we think it&#8217;s worth. I put a sign out front and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}