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If you still own a home in the U.S. (or your "home" country)...
What did you do with it while living abroad? Do you have it rented out? Is it still furnished or did you put your things in storage/move the contents with you/none of the above?
We plan to come back to the same home when our stint abroad is over and it's not worth it to move our furniture for one year. Just trying to figure out what we're doing and wanted to see what others have done.
Re: If you still own a home in the U.S. (or your "home" country)...
Wedding stuff.
Our contract has us over here for 2 years so we decided to rent out our home. DH's company pays a property management firm to find us a tenant/check up on the property. We decided to have our goods stored as I love our furniture and it was fairly new and didn't want people to ruin it.
If you are truly going to be over here for a year I might consider not renting it if you can afford it. It might take a month or two to get it rented and then more than likely a tenant will want a 1 year lease so you might come home and won't have your home for a few weeks/months.
A year before I moved over here with DH, I moved back in with my parents and began renting my house to a family friend and kept my furniture in it - knowing full well she would take good care of it (it was basically a grandmother and her 8 year old granddaughter) - I was very lucky in that she kept the place immaculate. Once she moved, my parents took most of my furniture and I sold the rest - I just didn't trust anyone else to take as good care of it as she had. However, I kept the house rented out, my mom is a realtor so she manages the property for me. I'm on my 3rd renter right now and am very ready for them to be out, they are constantly late with their rent, but it was our fault for not doing a full credit check on them. Yes, sometimes having a rental property is a headache. That being said, we're not ready to sell the property for a few more years and for us, it is more helpful for it to be rented then for it to be standing by itself. We plan on being overseas for quite awhile so this is what works best for us.
You can always talk to a property manager or something and find out how easy they think your property might be to rent (how quick you could get a lease on it). You can always specify the length of the lease. But I think if you know you will only be away for a year that it might just be better to leave it as is.Travel Blog
Little Miss Lulu playing on the beach
This exactly for us. On one hand it is nice to have the mortgage mostly covered for 2 years while we are gone, but on the other it was a pain to get stuff in storage, pain to get it out, and it irrationally bugs me that someone else is living in our house now.