Central Air or Baseboard Heat and Window A/C?

[Tyler Willson]

I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, but now it is out there. We are doing a big renovation on a house built in 1948 that does not currently have central air. It was heated previously by an oil heating system that needs to be replaced. We are looking to apply the BRRR strategy to this property. Many other properties in the area do not have central air, but there are investors/flippers in the area who are putting in central air in some houses.

My big question is do we put the money in now to upgrade to central air or wait until we are closer to wanting to sell the property? The difference in price is my largest obstacle with central air costing us about $8000 (materials and labor) vs $3000 (materials and self-labor) for baseboard heat and window units.