{"id":117179,"date":"2025-03-03T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=117179"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:45:07","slug":"monday-night-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2025\/03\/03\/monday-night-homeowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; Homeowners !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was really special..&nbsp; We became homeowners in the real sense<br>I baught our house in August of 1982 for $60,000 .. Since that time we&#8217;ve been dutifully paying our mortgae includign at least 4 refinances we did to upgrade the house ..&nbsp; &nbsp;we hadded soem of the modern convieinces that most houses have&#8230;<br><br>like heat .. \ud83d\ude42&nbsp;<br><br>Today we finally paid of the last bit of that mortgage.&nbsp;<br>A nice officernamed Belle&nbsp; at Eastrise Credit Union (nee New England Federal Credit Union) did the honors. .. with no fanfare, we did the last transfer and this crazy home was truly ours..&nbsp;<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5FFC25D4-51D7-4F2F-8110-E3601F621C31_1_105_c.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600 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