{"id":100,"date":"2020-10-01T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T13:56:51","slug":"bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounce Back"},"content":{"rendered":"One day, I just woke up and thought, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t even want to get out of my<br \/>bed. I can\u2019t be bothered to do anything.\u201d For me, that was the first time I\u2019d ever experienced it,<br \/>and that lasted for a solid week; I didn\u2019t interact with anybody. The house that was being<br \/>renovated was only two doors down, so I could see it from my bedroom window. I could see the<br \/>builders working, and they were phoning me up, asking, \u201cWhat should we do about this?\u201d or<br \/>\u201cWe found such and such.\u201d And I didn\u2019t want to deal with it at all, even though I was<br \/>geographically so close to everything that was going on.<br \/>I then pulled myself out of it, and decided, \u201cI need some kind of quality of life. I never intended<br \/>to be a landlord, this is an accident. With everything that\u2019s going on with the economy, I think I<br \/>might have made a wrong decision.\u201d So, I made a conscious decision to just concentrate on my<br \/>career. When I came to retirement, the houses would be my little pension plan.<br \/>Eighteen months went by. I was very low and subdued, and then I started to feel a bit better. I\u2019d<br \/>been keeping an eye on this one house that was only a couple of miles away. It had been on the<br \/>market for as long as I\u2019d been ill, and I just wondering, \u201cWhy is nobody taking this property? If I<br \/>wanted to, I could just buy it. I\u2019m going to have to find out some more information about it.\u201d The<br \/>price had gradually been reduced to offers in excess of \u00a3180,000 for a four-bedroom house in<br \/>quite a desirable area of town, with a garage as well. I had a viewing and asked the agent, \u201cIt\u2019s<br \/>been on the market for over a year, why can\u2019t you sell it?\u201d He replied, \u201cThe owner went away,<br \/><br \/><br \/>chucked us the keys, and told us to sell his house. He&#39;s just come back and gone absolutely ape<br \/>shit because we haven\u2019t sold his house. But we couldn\u2019t get a hold of him to put forward any of<br \/>the offers, so that\u2019s why it hasn\u2019t happened. He wants me to shift it.\u201d So I went back to him with<br \/>an offer of \u00a3130,000. The agent said, \u201cThere\u2019s no way in a million years he will go for that.\u201d It<br \/>wasn\u2019t even a cash offer, just a mortgage offer. I was expecting him to just point blank refuse<br \/>and ask me to reoffer.<br \/>Instead, the agent came back, saying, \u201cThe lowest he\u2019ll go is \u00a3137,500.\u201d The market value was<br \/>\u00a3180,000, so I bought it and that reignited my fire. I\u2019d had my own house with lodgers in for<br \/>about 18 months. I\u2019d also had another rental property and I\u2019d been working full-time, so I\u2019d<br \/>managed to save enough money for the deposit. I\u2019d just started to build a bit of money, and then<br \/>here I was spending it again. I was in a sticky situation because I now had no money to do the<br \/>renovations.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, I just woke up and thought, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t even want to get out of mybed. I can\u2019t be bothered to do anything.\u201d For me, that was the first time I\u2019d ever experienced it,and that lasted for a solid week; I didn\u2019t interact with anybody. The house that was beingrenovated was only two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adammccord.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}