{"id":2533,"date":"2009-08-10T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2009-08-10T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:49:08","slug":"day-218-this-is-what-happens-when-you-try-to-buy-a-house-in-midtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memphis\/day-218-this-is-what-happens-when-you-try-to-buy-a-house-in-midtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 218: This Is What Happens When You Try to Buy a House In Midtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Fun fact: Midtown Memphis is the only area in West Tennessee in which you cannot pull housing comps based on Zip code alone. What that means, essentially, is that finding a house in Midtown Memphis and settling on a fair price for it is a huge pain in the ass. I am learning more about real estate than I ever cared to know. <\/p>\n

I don’t want to write a whole lot about it because so much is still up in the air and everything is still SUPERSTRESSFUL, but let me say this: Nothing I have ever done in my life has made me feel as idiotic as the process of trying to buy a house for the first time. <\/p>\n

I try not to do things that make me feel stupid. Dating, for example. So this experience has thrown me for such a loop that I had to drop off the face of the planet for a bit just to get some perspective and quiet the static. The static, it was too much. It’s still too much but at least, right at this very moment, I feel equipped to filter it. Last week, not so much.<\/p>\n

It feels a little like walking on eggshells with lead weights for feet. <\/p>\n

[Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fun fact: Midtown Memphis is the only area in West Tennessee in which you cannot pull housing comps based on Zip code alone. What that means, essentially, is that finding a house in Midtown Memphis and settling on a fair price for it is a huge pain in the ass. I am learning more about real estate than I ever cared to know. I don’t want to write a whole lot about it because so… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,156,683],"tags":[554,2268,773,2153,2194,1252,2149,1201,1225],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","category-midtown","category-project-365-2009","tag-hand","tag-houselust","tag-housing","tag-memphis","tag-midtown","tag-nails","tag-project-365","tag-real-estate","tag-stress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}