{"id":290,"date":"2017-11-02T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.91.241.0\/~steve360regrp\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-11-02T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:10:46","slug":"good-time-buy-yeah-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/good-time-buy-yeah-think","title":{"rendered":"Is it a Good Time to Buy? Yeah, I think so."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rents are going up!<\/strong>\u00a0– I got a referral a few weeks ago to someone who probably had the ability to buy a home, but instead was looking to rent. There weren\u2019t any extenuating variables such as an upcoming relocation, or jeopardy of job loss. This guy was the perfect candidate to buy something, but he thought that by renting he was making a better “financial choice.” I scratched my head and said \u201cOK.\u201d A good personal choice for him and his life? Who knows. A good financial choice? Nope. Doubt it. You can take your chances in a rising rent environment, or lock in a mortgage payment based on a combination of record low interest rates, and some of the most affordable real estate in decades. Take a look at the following L.A. Times article to see what\u2019s going on out there.\u00a0(Click Here)<\/a><\/p>\n

This month\u2019s mailer<\/strong>\u00a0was all about home repair, the value of doing it, vs. not doing it. I\u2019ve included a link here that gives a bit more detail about hiring professionals for regular maintenance. Check out this little follow up to the mailer.\u00a0Avoid the High Cost of Wear and Tear.<\/a>\u00a0And Oh, By the Way\u2026 If you need a referral to a great contractor, plumber, electrician, chimney repair service etc. give me a call. I know everybody!<\/p>\n

Sweet Bungalow in Highland Park –\u00a0<\/strong>Just to illustrate further, what deferring maintenance does to you when you want to sell, I present this bungalow in Highland Park. I picked it up for only $215,000. I put in about $100,000 to bring it back to new, and I\u2019ll be selling it in July for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000. How much more could the sellers have made had they only done regular maintenance on the property? $40,000? $50,000? You get the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rents are going up!\u00a0– I got a referral a few weeks ago to someone who probably had the ability to buy a home, but instead was looking to rent. There weren\u2019t any extenuating variables such as an upcoming relocation, or jeopardy of job loss. This guy was the perfect candidate to buy something, but he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360realestategroup.com\/360admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}