{"id":405,"date":"2011-11-14T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.jpfco.com\/dir\/?p=405"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:43:07","slug":"hows-the-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/hows-the-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s the interior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a real estate family. I have been hearing real estate deals being negotiated since I was 3 months young. Sometimes I would hear my mom say, &#8220;How&#8217;d the third showing with so and so go?&#8221; My dad would say, &#8220;Libby, it&#8217;s never a good sign if they want to see the property for a third time. They are only talking themselves out of doing the deal; they are looking for excuses not to buy it.&#8221; Very ironic, too, because you tell your clients you have a third showing and they get excited that the buyers are going to make an offer, but, in reality, the opposite is happening-the buyers are talking their way out of the deal. Now that I am active in the real estate brokerage business, I see this phenomenon first hand; third + showings are the kiss of death. Most buyers that pull the trigger know it when they see it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Last two properties my wife and I have bought, I made the offers before she had been to the properties. Naturally, she asked, &#8220;How&#8217;s the interior?&#8221; I replied, &#8220;Not sure, I haven&#8217;t been inside&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a real estate family. I have been hearing real estate deals being negotiated since I was 3 months young. Sometimes I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-real-estate-market","category-real-estate-articles","category-real-estate-listings-for-sale","category-real-estate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpfco.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}