Sell or Lease: I want to hear your 2 cents

I bought this single family at 2005 for 430K and invested 60K to upgrade. If I want to sell the house today, I can expect to sale for 420K to 430K and the net proceeds after agent fee would be about 400K. So I will lose 90K if I sell the home today. However, I can free up 150K cash to do other investment.

My other alternative is to rent the house for a monthly income around $2200 and my monthly mortgage interest is 490 and property tax and insurance is about 430. I have a 10 year fix loan right now and monthly payment is around 2800 which include 1800 principle, 490 tax and 430 escrow. I will have a negative cash flow if I keep my current 10 year fix loan but the interest cost is low.

I heard people say it is not good to rent out single family as no one will take care the property like I do. I want to hear your 2 cents on whether you will choose rent or sale under this situation.

Happy holidays! And Thanks for your inputs!

 

 

 

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• 重貸成三十年就可以維持了，現在正是低利息 -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:37:14

• 回複：重貸成三十年就可以維持了，現在正是低利息 -Iamcc- ♀ (266 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:39:51

• 一座座的算，拆東牆補西墻不是長久之計，不明白這裏的may too much interest cost是指啥？closing c -MrsKwok- ♀ (86 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:48:24

• Not closing cost -Iamcc- ♀ (344 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:54:57

• 你肯定很有錢。我們這些沒錢的隻能讓人家賺利息，被割肉喝血。沒辦法，沒有這麽多錢月付啊。 -sweetptt- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:59:21

• 回複：你肯定很有錢。我們這些沒錢的隻能讓人家賺利息，被割肉喝血。沒辦法，沒有這麽多錢月付啊。 -Iamcc- ♀ (376 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:04:06

• Co sweetptt: at current rate money is almost free.千載難逢。 -borisg- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:02:42

• 這麽算就沒辦法了，實際上把投資房當生意來看的話這算法是大虧了 -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:05:30

• 那還不如賣了。take the loss。The biggest advantage of landlording over s -sweetptt- ♂ (129 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 20:57:30

• No. 90k loss it takes forever to write off capital loss. -borisg- ♀ (92 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:01:00

• I don't know the tax implication of this loss -Iamcc- ♀ (241 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:06:53

• you can only have 3k capital loss/yr on tax return(the rest you -borisg- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:10:57

• 波大，有時需要當機立斷不是。看貼裏說樓主還是有賺錢的樓盤的。那麽賣了這個，解放現金，投入賺錢的樓盤。 -sweetptt- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:34:45

• 我不跟你說了，cashout能拿十八萬出來，利息是能減稅的。九萬虧損你真減三十年去呀。 -borisg- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:44:58

• 而且每年可以有一萬的折舊。即使過幾年還是不漲那九萬也被你跑掉了。 -borisg- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 22:23:04

• Not right property as rental -Slothehz002- ♂ (993 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:25:59

• I agree with you every single word -Iamcc- ♀ (1054 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:38:03

• Further suggestions -Slothehz002- ♂ (703 bytes) () 12/21/2012 postreply 08:43:06

• Thanks all for your inputs. Good night! -Iamcc- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 21:43:43

• 你在哪裏？四十三萬房租二千二正好打個平手，租的好的話有點小賺。 -d41515- ♂ (182 bytes) () 12/20/2012 postreply 22:11:42