{"id":3637,"date":"2018-01-16T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:15:29","slug":"wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering If You Can Buy Your First Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" src=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154952\/20180116-Share-STM.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154952\/20180116-Share-STM.jpg 750w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154952\/20180116-Share-STM-549x300.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/p>\n<p>There are many people sitting on the sidelines trying to decide if they should purchase a home or sign a rental lease. Some might wonder if it makes sense to purchase a house before they are married and have a family, others might think they are too young, and still, others might think their current income would never enable them to qualify for a mortgage.<span id=\"more-36876\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We want to share what the typical first-time homebuyer actually looks like based on the <em>National Association of REALTORS<\/em> most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/reports\/highlights-from-the-2015-profile-of-home-buyers-and-sellers\"><em>Profile of Home Buyers &#038; Sellers<\/em><\/a>. Here are some interesting revelations on the first-time buyer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154935\/20180116-STM-ENG.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36877\" src=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154935\/20180116-STM-ENG.jpg\" alt=\"Wondering If You Can Buy Your First Home? | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154935\/20180116-STM-ENG.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154935\/20180116-STM-ENG-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/09154935\/20180116-STM-ENG-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You may not be much different than many people who have already purchased their first homes. Let\u2019s meet to determine if your dream home is within your grasp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people sitting on the sidelines trying to decide if they should purchase a home or sign a rental lease. Some might wonder if it makes sense to purchase a house before they are married and have a family, others might think they are too young, and still, others might think their current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demographics","category-first-time-home-buyers","category-for-buyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}