{"id":4,"date":"2008-04-01T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T06:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-04-14T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T11:02:42","slug":"so-we-bought-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"So&#8230; we bought a house."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a long story, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/house\/\">an idea<\/a> which didn&#8217;t work out, progressing via choosing a high school for Jessica, and culminating in a decision to look at places in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishhoek.com\">Fish Hoek<\/a>. Budget : under or slightly over a million. Which is pretty much entry level in Cape Town at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>So I phoned all the agents in the area (or at least the ones I could find on the web) &#8212; later found out that the agents in FH work together in  a strange way, unlike the agents I know. Not that that matters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorkim.com\">Major Kim<\/a> phoned back, took us to see four places. The first was great but in need of attention, the next two were too small, and Tanya didn&#8217;t like the other one at all. So we put a very low offer in on the first place.<\/p>\n<p>And got it, after a round of negotiations&#8230; for a little under a mil. So when you hear reports of the property market in downswing &#8212; we pretty much started it :-)<\/p>\n<p>So now we have&#8230; one fixer upper, in Fish Hoek, close to everything (except the liquor store, but that&#8217;s Fish Hoek for you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a long story, starting with an idea which didn&#8217;t work out, progressing via choosing a high school for Jessica, and culminating in a decision to look at places in Fish Hoek. Budget : under or slightly over a million. Which is pretty much entry level in Cape Town at the time of writing. So I phoned all the agents in the area (or at least the ones I could find on the web) &#8212; later found out that the agents in FH work together in a strange way, unlike the agents I know. Not that that matters, Major Kim&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,5],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-house","tag-house-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}