Real Estate Investor Question: Rehab and Sell, or Rehab and Keep?
Here’s another awesome question I received from my discussion board. The question: Why bother keeping property after it’s rehabbed? Why not sell it after the rehab and get paid! Of course, the first questions that you must answer is how emergent is your need for quick cash? You can likely generate the most short term cash by selling a freshly rehabbed house. But, you will give much of it away in taxes come next April. If you keep it, you stand to make more! You will also enjoy some great benefits while you own it such as cash flow, a tax break, and more cash with the future appreciation. You can still pull some nice cash a few months after buying it when you refinance (post rehab) the property from your hard money (at 70% loan to value) to long term financing (at 85% or 90% loan to value). The short answer is an investor is going to make considerably more money by hanging onto a property after it’s rehabbed. There is a downside to it. You have to be a landlord, and you have to decide i
