{"id":16,"date":"2007-02-28T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-02-28T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T21:08:40","slug":"i-finally-decided-to-sell-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"I finally decided to sell my house&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it should go on the market in a couple of weeks.  There are a few issues I need to work out on it.   Plus, my agent and I want to watch the market for the next week or so to see how the other houses in my neighborhood are moving.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons why I decided to sell:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Traffic.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s getting worse and worse.  My commute times are getting longer and neither I nor my office has moved.  Getting stuck on a 4-line wide highway is just insane.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Road conditions<\/strong>.  The roads around me are not improving.   Potholes and patches and just overly rough surfaces.  This is hard on a small car like mine.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Construction.<\/strong>  There are so many new townhouse communities popping up around me and I am tired of the construction.  I survived while my neighborhood was being finished, but now, I just wanna get away.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Liquidity<\/strong>.  Living in an apartment will make it easier to pick up and move to Alabama, should the opportunity arise.  Selling my house is one step towards making this happen.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Townhouse<\/strong>.  The glorified apartment.  The biggest benefit of living in my house is the tax deductions I get for my interest paid.  Otherwise, I feel like I live in a glorified apartment.  Might as well live in one.  At least, I won&#8217;t have to do my own maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>The HOA<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 My HOA is non-existant except when it comes time to pay the fee.\u00c2\u00a0 No meetings.\u00c2\u00a0 No conact.\u00c2\u00a0 Just pay your money.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s all they want. \u00c2\u00a0 They don&#8217;t want to hear from you. \u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, pretty pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>It is a pretty tough thing to move and move again.  I have lived in 4 different places since I moved to the Metro Atlanta area in late 99.  I guess I am a nomad.  I am going to move back down to Roswell.  I really like this area of the Metro, so I plan to stay in this area as long as I am here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it should go on the market in a couple of weeks. There are a few issues I need to work out on it. Plus, my agent and I want to watch the market for the next week or so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=16\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}