Posted on 03/12/2024 1:09:28 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
And Location.
My Children:
Near Seattle. House prices are insane.
Outside of Boston. House prices are insane.
Chatanooga. House prices are reasonable. A house my son is looking at for $450,000 would be 1,000,000 to 1,300,000 near Seattle or Boston.
Is it hard finding good renters?
The key is buy bargain houses then you can rent below market easy to find people looking for bargain. But to be honest I have no idea what I am doing just that things have worked out really well for me.
Who is this dumb a$$?
My guess is that he is a entrepreneur that has started up rental investment properties opportunities available to the dimwitted enough to not buy a home and put capital management under Grant Cardone.
Paying rent makes some other family rich.
Now I have bought, I have rented and I have been a landlord. Renting is pretty easy because all you have to do is give them money and they take care of everything. Of course the corollary is that you are not allowed to do any number of things. Including decide what kind of window shades you have. The people who think it means you can just leave the rental at any time are forgetting about rental agreements. You are stuck for a year unless you want to pay some pretty stiff penalties.
Owning is more complicated but has greater freedom for personal expression (as long as you stay out of an HOA). You can redesign the entire house if you like so it fits you.
Being a landlord is a pain for the amount of return you get. Because they are just giving you money and all the problems are yours. Property taxes which are quite high, income taxes, repairs and any conflict with neighbors. You are doing all of this and you do not even get the benefit of living in the home.
If you live in the area and you are capable of doing a lot of the repair and maintenance yourself and you are able to get reasonable renters you can get a return of a couple hundred dollars a month from a unit. If you have more then three you will have to accept section 8 with all the headaches that brings. If you have less then three you probably will have a passive income of around $900 a month.
Which is not hay but it is not exactly great.
I’m currently a landlord but use a management company because I live over 500 miles away. All the rental income I’ve supposedly received over the past year has been used to pay for storm damage (2 different events), I paid to replace the deck, a new stove, and currently have major leak to get fixed. Luckily I don’t depend on the rental income.
I tried to sell it a few years ago but after 8 months I rented it again.
I would not recommend using rental property for income as a senior.
But that was the Before Times.
Now I would not recommend that anyone become a small landlord. The clients we kept are mostly people who are out of the country and plan to live in their houses when they return.
The rest told us to sell their rentals as they were getting out of the game.
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