{"id":1989,"date":"2012-09-16T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2012-09-19T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T22:24:40","slug":"equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/09\/equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I bought a condo for the first time it scared me to death to sign a mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>But the timing was fortunate, and very quickly I got equity. So much equity that it began to be a force to reckon with. \u00a0What should I do with all this theoretical money?<\/p>\n<p>First thing i did was get a home equiity line of creidt and pay off the 2nd mortgage that I had to have to buy the thing in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>But I still had a lot of equity left over. Twice my yearly salary of equity, as a matter of fact. So.<\/p>\n<p>What should I do with equity?<\/p>\n<p>It was a huge amount of cash. But it wasn&#8217;t cash. It was equity&#8211;a special kind of value that had to do with the value that some people placed on some thing in a certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>A strange sort of money. A weird sort of stock option for a company that doesn&#8217;t have stock yet. There are only a few ways to wisely spend equity-money.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe&#8230;maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I determined what kind of buyer I could find for this kind of money and leveraged it well. I sold the condo and bought my dream house.<\/p>\n<p>Then the equity disappeared. I have no equity in my house anymore. But equity only means opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>And opportunity only counts if you take it.<\/p>\n<p>I find that i am possessed of another kind of equity. Career equity. I have amassed skills and experience in my career. And that is valuable to certain people in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I just have to figure out how to get the best buyer. And be willing to take some risks.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune favors the bold. And time always gives some king of equity. I want to spend it wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I bought a condo for the first time it scared me to death to sign a mortgage. But the timing was fortunate, and very quickly I got equity. So much equity that it began to be a force to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/09\/equity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}