{"id":415,"date":"2008-02-28T00:34:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T04:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realst8.crankpin.com\/south-bend\/despite-the-winter-south-bend-could-draw\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T00:38:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T04:38:19","slug":"despite-the-winter-south-bend-could-draw-from-the-coasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/south-bend\/despite-the-winter-south-bend-could-draw-from-the-coasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite the Winters, South Bend Could Draw From The Coasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my &#8220;web 2.0 colleagues&#8221; about the high cost of housing on the west coast today and  I had an epiphany&#8230;  I should start marketing to people across the country whose employment is not location dependent that want a great home at a ridiculously low price in a decent Midwest city that has a great university, a multitude of other educational opportunities and is 45 minutes from the white sand beaches of Lake Michigan and only 90 minutes from the center of one of the worlds great cities &#8211; Chicago.  How do I do this?  I wonder what I can do with a targeted blog?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I sold a home to clients relocating for exactly the affordability reasons mentioned above.  They had a home in the Bay Area that backed to a freeway.  They had lived there for 20 years or so.  He is a high school teacher, she was a librarian and they have 4 kids.  They are a nice family, and despite being very frugal, at the end of every month they struggled to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>They sold their modest home in the Bay Area for around 800k, and bought an extremely nice 3,500 square foot home built in 1992 in a great neighborhood on a huge lot with additional space in the finished basement for 315K, paid off all their bills, put around 400K in the bank.  Now, their kids are in private schools, he is a religion teacher at a Catholic High School, and she is a stay at home mom. Their lives have improved dramatically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my &#8220;web 2.0 colleagues&#8221; about the high cost of housing on the west coast today and I had an epiphany&#8230; I should start marketing to people across the country whose employment is not location dependent that want a great home at a ridiculously low price in a decent Midwest city that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-bend"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}