{"id":2185,"date":"2026-04-02T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/before-you-fall-in-love-with-a-house-do-this-first\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:30:00","slug":"before-you-fall-in-love-with-a-house-do-this-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/before-you-fall-in-love-with-a-house-do-this-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Fall in Love with a House, Do This First."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Header-Image-GettyImages-1778024621-original.png?resize=730%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-featured-large size-featured-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Before You Fall in Love with a House, Do This First. | Keeping Current Matters\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Be honest. Have you started looking at homes online yet? If you have, it\u2019s already time to get pre-approved.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be honest. Have you started looking at homes online yet? If you have, it\u2019s already time to get pre-approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,7,36,8,9,10,11,12,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying-tips","category-first-time-home-buyers","category-first-time-buyers","category-for-buyers","category-for-sellers","category-housing-market-updates","category-infographics","category-move-up-buyers","category-real-estate-trends","category-rss"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Header-Image-GettyImages-1778024621-original.png?fit=750%2C410&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhelpcomesfromthelord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}