Flipping vs. Fix-to-Rent

[Brian Qian]

Hi BP Team,

I've been debating whether it makes sense to find more 'fix-to-rent' type of deals rather than buying an outright 'fix-to-sell' or an outright 'turnkey rental' in the SFH space. Has anyone explored or preferred this route? Any tradeoffs that should be considered?

Some thoughts:

- attracting better tenants through more attractive housing

- longer-term, sticky tenants because of SFH (multi-family is much more challenging)

- tax benefits from those with a W2

- easier to manage slightly smaller projects without a sell horizon