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Real Estate Investing Advice

Just want to run our scenario by you all and see what you think. 

My husband and I bought our first rental property in August, we have great tenants who pay on time and we have a $200 positive cash flow after all expenses each month. Our area is having a major inventory shortage and in the 8 months we've owned the house it has appreciated 100k! My husband and I still go back and forth about what the ultimate goal is with the house, sell in 5 years, 10 years, keep it and use rental income as part of our retirement plan, etc. The fact that it has gone up so much so fast is making me consider cashing out. What would you do and if you have rental properties what is your ultimate goal with them?

Re: Real Estate Investing Advice

  • You should talk to a CPA about the taxes you'll have for selling an asset that you've held for a short time.  You'll likely be subject to ordinary income tax rates on this plus realtor fees so your $100k gain will be eaten up quite a bit.
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  • I can't give you much advice on using rental properties for income, mostly because I don't have much tolerance for risk in the event we don't have a renter. If I ever did do it, I would pay for the property in full and would have to have a very good in

  • The neighbor's house which is the same exact model just received multiple offers in the first 3 days on the market, and was listed 90k higher than what we bought ours for. I'm a realtor so I follow the MLS pretty closely and our area is back to a bidding
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