{"id":56471,"date":"2011-06-01T17:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=56471"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:44:25","slug":"not-a-gut-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/06\/not-a-gut-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Gut Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are house hunting and seeing a lot of estate sales &#8211; usually the verbiage in the listing suggests &#8220;bring your contractor&#8221; or something along those lines. I really don&#8217;t want to do a major renovation at this point &#8211; we&#8217;re hoping to find something habitable &#8211; maybe with a few things that need to be fixed. Can anyone share their experience of not doing a major renovation right off the bat? Is hoping that we&#8217;ll be able to repair things as we go too optimistic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are house hunting and seeing a lot of estate sales &#8211; usually the verbiage in the listing suggests &#8220;bring your contractor&#8221; or something along those lines. I really don&#8217;t want to do a major renovation at this point &#8211; we&#8217;re hoping to find something habitable &#8211; maybe with a few things that need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-56471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/06\/not-a-gut-reno\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Not a Gut Reno","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/06\/not-a-gut-reno\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/06\/not-a-gut-reno\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"mimimimi"}],"creator":["mimimimi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-06-01T17:08:53Z","datePublished":"2011-06-01T17:08:53Z","dateModified":"2013-09-20T14:44:25Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Not a Gut Reno\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/not-a-gut-reno\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/not-a-gut-reno\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Renovation\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"mimimimi\"}],\"creator\":[\"mimimimi\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-06-01T17:08:53Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-01T17:08:53Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-20T14:44:25Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56471"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=56471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}