{"id":380220,"date":"2026-10-22T23:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380220\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:56:44","slug":"we-bought-a-brownstone-for-1-5-million-and-renovated-it-for-300000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380220\/","title":{"rendered":"We bought a brownstone for $1.5 million and renovated it for $300,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Barry Bordelon, 46, and Jordan Slocum, 42, met on a dating app and decided to search for a home to purchase together after only 7 months of dating. In October 2018, they purchased their brownstone in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for about $1.5 million. The couple did a bulk of the renovation themselves and estimate they spent around $312,000 on it.<\/p>\n<p>09:32<\/p>\n<p>Thu, Oct 22 20261:03 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Barry Bordelon, 46, and Jordan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,139461,69093,115259,10701,9,24,63,1491],"class_list":["post-380220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-generation-x","tag-generation-y","tag-home-buyers","tag-home-sales","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}