{"id":44778,"date":"2017-06-30T23:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T03:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44778"},"modified":"2020-08-01T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:36:07","slug":"a-new-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44778","title":{"rendered":"A new chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-44779 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/homeowner_again.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/homeowner_again.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/homeowner_again-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Obviously, I\u2019m pretty hush-hush when it comes to the process of getting to things like this, but let\u2019s cut right to the chase: I\u2019m a homeowner again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Apartment life wasn\u2019t terrible, but the reality is that renting always feels like throwing money away, and that the end game is always a home where I can stash all my shit and have a place that I can always call my own, and potentially work it to something that might actually be able to make me money in the future to boot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I came to a realization not that long ago that I actually managed to amass enough money to where I could actually get back on the path to homeownership, and then once the home-buying bug bit, it was off to the races with trying to find a home that suited a lot of my mental checkboxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It all happened pretty quickly and has been quite the whirlwind, and I will say that honestly, this moved rapidly throughout the course of a month.\u00a0 Yeah, sounds like a lot of major decisions being made in a short amount of time, but I had a particular area in mind where I wanted my next house to be, and that made things a little easy in the sense that I wasn\u2019t going to be searching all around the entire Metro Atlanta area, and had more of a specific zip code in mind to narrow my choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So there we have it; I have a house again.\u00a0 Maybe some of it is sticker shock after dropping a massive sum of money for a downpayment, or maybe it\u2019s the surreal feeling that I\u2019ve already moved onto my second <em>house<\/em>.\u00a0 Grown-up adulting may be one of those things I always say is kind of weird to consider, but if I\u2019m already successfully capable of owning my second house, I\u2019m clearly doing something right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Life is fascinating sometimes, and I look forward to embarking on this new chapter of my life in my new house that will hopefully be full of good memories, lots of growth, and abundant potential for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, I\u2019m pretty hush-hush when it comes to the process of getting to things like this, but let\u2019s cut right to the chase: I\u2019m a homeowner again. Apartment life wasn\u2019t terrible, but the reality is that renting always feels like throwing money away, and that the end game is always a home where I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new chapter<\/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":[1],"tags":[121,91],"class_list":["post-44778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-homeownership","tag-pf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44780,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778\/revisions\/44780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}