{"id":1624,"date":"2014-01-02T01:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T06:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2014-01-02T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T06:30:31","slug":"adventures-in-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2014\/01\/02\/adventures-in-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sold_sign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1625\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sold_sign-300x287.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sold_sign-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sold_sign-313x300.png 313w, https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sold_sign.png 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It seems like a long time since we &#8211; my family and I &#8211; took the decision to move out of New Jersey, but it&#8217;s finally done. The endpoint, for us, was the sale of our home up there. It was all of nine months on the market. It&#8217;s a funny thing, but all I hear is how the market&#8217;s recovering and home sales are up and positive news and trends from all over. But apparently that &#8211; like so much else &#8211; doesn&#8217;t just doesn&#8217;t apply in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been involved in several real estate ventures over the years and, looking back, none have gone particularly well. Whatever the reason, I seem to come out of it feeling like I should have done better. This time was no different.<\/p>\n<p>But now it&#8217;s behind me. The the checks have cleared and I&#8217;m free to write about the adventure. And what an adventure it&#8217;s been! From my attorney to my agent to the potential buyers that made it to various stages in the sales pipeline to the haunting&#8230; yes, you read right&#8230; <em>haunting<\/em>&#8230; there are definitely some stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Recapping, Florida moved up the list to &#8216;serious candidate&#8217; status August 10, 2010. (Do I really keep track of that kind of trivia? Yup.) Things were already underway when I wrote\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"local post: Leaving New Jersey Behind\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2012\/07\/11\/leaving-new-jersey-behind\/\">Leaving New Jersey Behind<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0In July 2012, announcing our intent to leave New Jersey. Our old home sale closed on December 12th. So&#8230; about a year and a half to consider and arrange for (what I hope will be) our last relocation. Seven months to build. A solid month of transition &#8211; long story there. Another year to divest the old property.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tag the posts with <em>real estate<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like a long time since we &#8211; my family and I &#8211; took the decision to move out of New Jersey, but it&#8217;s finally done. The endpoint, for us, was the sale of our home up there. It was all of nine months on the market. It&#8217;s a funny thing, but all I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2014\/01\/02\/adventures-in-real-estate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in Real Estate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}