As a lot of you know, we recently bought an investment property for myself and my family to live in and fix upover the next year. I also got a reminder from my wife today that I said something 2 years ago when I moved.
"If we ever do this again, remind me to hire movers! THIS SUCKS!"
My back hurts, I feel I'm getting nothing done in real estate, and every time I turn around I swear there is a new box that wasn't there a minute it ago. Full of stuff that I have never seen before in my life. It is like I've gone to someone else's garage sale, but they put it up in my living room.
At the rate is going, I'm worried I'm going to open another box and find a neighbor kid that we may have accidentally packed trying to rush things. The only screams I've heard are my own kids, asking are we done yet?
I don't think it really would have changed things had we hired movers, since the part I am hating is not having a living room, phone, internet or everything that I learned I need to survive. I think I may have even scared the neighbor when my son left the door open tonight. He saw the piles of everything and I pretty sure ran as fast as he could back to his place, in fear that he may become just another missing persons report.
Calgon take me away!
Todd Clark - broker
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I shudder at the thought. Maybe when it is time to move we'll just pack our clothes and sell the house furnished. I think my garage will take a fleet of movers to deal with... I have HEAVY hobbies.
BTW, two years in the investment house would save you on taxes for the gain...
Lane,
Thank you for you concern on the Tax gain, but I do lease options and that keeps the property in my name for two years beyond the one year mark. Completely avoiding the capital gains, then I will do a 1031 in to the new property.
Marcus,
First, I hate giving any of my money away. The second is I keep my real estate income and my investment income seperate. So any profits I make, go back into future investment properties. So the 1031 protects as much of that money as possible.
Todd
Lane had a good idea, just sell the house furnished - leave the buyers with the headache! :) Love it!
Two things:
1. Try hiring a few local teens to help pack up - ask them to wrap each China plate, for example, in newspaper, etc. You can pay them a little cash and they'll be thrilled (win/win). They can also help with making a big pile of items to purge - donate or sell on Craigslist.
2. Another thing that has worked for me when I am helping buyers - we ask the homeowner if they'd be willing to sell large items such as a weight machine or treadmill , pooltable, kayak... any large item that would cost the seller so much to move that he/she would be happy to leave it behind. It has worked in the past! Cheers!