{"id":12676,"date":"2014-12-01T00:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/sethhaug\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-12-01T00:52:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:52:21","slug":"buying-a-home-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/buying-a-home-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a Home in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!<\/p>\n

\"HOME\"<\/a>

The new Homeowners<\/p><\/div>\n

One way to alleviate the guilt of not living in Detroit (a CD requirement) for the first two months of Challenge Detroit, is to buy a home\u00a0in the city.<\/p>\n

\"Family

My Parents drove in from Wisconsin to help us get settled!<\/p><\/div>\n

This Thanksgiving, Nellie and I had a lot to be thankful for as we closed on a pretty stinking awesome condo in Detroit’s Art Center area. \u00a0Along with pictures, I wanted to share some of the reasons we decided to buy a home IN the city of Detroit.<\/p>\n

1) We’ve only lived near Detroit for a short time, but have fallen in love with the city and know\u00a0we want to live here long term<\/p>\n

2) Buying a home is an investment, on many levels, and like all investments you expect growth. \u00a0When we look at Detroit’s future we see growth, and want to be\u00a0a small part of returning the city to its former glory.<\/p>\n

\"DIA<\/a>

Detroit Thanksgiving Parade in front of the DIA, a mere blocks away from our condo<\/p><\/div>\n

3) The opportunity to live blocks away from 4+ world class museums<\/p>\n

4) NO COMMUTE – For the first time since college I will be living less then 10 minutes away from my job. \u00a0California friends will be envious<\/p>\n

5) In a couple years the commute will be even better as Detroit will complete the M-1 Rail; a public transportation option with a stop blocks away from our condo<\/p>\n

6) I’m a numbers guys & I’ve wanted to own a\u00a0home for a while but it wasn’t feasible in California & Ann Arbor was short term<\/p>\n

7) In Detroit, we were able to get a large condo in a great area for a cheaper monthly payment than what one might expect to pay in rent (full disclosure: we were fortunate to have enough savings for a hefty down payment)<\/p>\n

\"Window

One of our windows looking out to our great new neighborhood!<\/p><\/div>\n

8) The opportunity participate in an amazing community while living in a truly historic and diverse neighborhood<\/p>\n

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As the year unfolds, I’m excited to seek out and tackle projects in my new home, new community, and new City – DETROIT!<\/p>\n

\"Project\"<\/a>

Project 1: Paint the Kitchen Project 2: Meet the Neighbors(hood)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! One way to alleviate the guilt of not living in Detroit (a CD requirement) for the first two months of Challenge Detroit, is to buy a home\u00a0in the city. This Thanksgiving, Nellie and I had a lot to be thankful for as we closed on a pretty stinking awesome condo in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}