{"id":120,"date":"2008-07-10T01:09:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T08:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-08-31T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T03:00:17","slug":"more-trouble-at-the-last-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/07\/10\/more-trouble-at-the-last-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"More Trouble at the Last Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, apparently my offer to split the difference was not good enough to get us over the line and unless I pick up my agent&#8217;s commission, this property is going to go on the market in three days &#8212; for $200,000 more than my offer. When driving by the house today, my agent spotted a van taking professional real estate photography so it&#8217;s not a bluff. Additionally, the seller has officially retained another agent, but he has smartly carved me out of his contract with her; meaning, if I end up buying the place, it&#8217;s still considered a direct deal.<\/p>\n<p>I have a charity golf tournament that I organized which I have to play in tomorrow, so I imagine it&#8217;s going to be a stressful day of negotiating between holes and trying to get something done by the end of the day, should I decide to proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, apparently my offer to split the difference was not good enough to get us over the line and unless I pick up my agent&#8217;s commission, this property is going to go on the market in three days &#8212; for $200,000 more than my offer. When driving by the house today, my agent spotted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}