{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/danfontainerealty-com\/2026\/09\/26\/entry-level-buyers-look-beyond-home-price\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:00:00","slug":"entry-level-buyers-look-beyond-home-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/entry-level-buyers-look-beyond-home-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry-level buyers look beyond home price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>When you\u2019re eyeing those starter homes, it\u2019s easy to focus just on the sticker price\u2014but that\u2019s only half the picture. Over the years working with VA buyers and military families here in Duval County, I\u2019ve seen plenty of folks surprised by the real monthly costs: HOA dues, insurance, taxes, and those pesky assessments that can sneak up on you. Sometimes, that lower-priced home ends up costing more each month than you\u2019d expect. Affordability and livability go hand in hand, especially for buyers who need their dollars to work hard and their move to make sense for their lifestyle. Getting the whole story\u2014beyond just the list price\u2014is where some straight talk and local experience really make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.floridarealtors.org\/news-media\/news-articles\/2026\/09\/entry-level-buyers-look-beyond-home-price\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re eyeing those starter homes, it\u2019s easy to focus just on the sticker price\u2014but that\u2019s only half the picture. Over the years working with VA buyers and military families here in Duval County, I\u2019ve seen plenty of folks surprised by the real monthly costs: HOA dues, insurance, taxes, and those pesky assessments that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}