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First Time Home Buyer living in Queens NY

Bapshil Fatal
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Hello,

This is my first time posting on this site. To give a bit of background, I'm a 28 year old NYC resident originally from Brooklyn and my family and I bought our very first home ever in Queens. I bought the home with my folks and brother, a single family townhouse in a neighborhood called St Albans back in Feb of this year. Place has been recently renovated and we got it for about $640K (We paid $100K down + $23,000 closing). 

Since we're all new to this, we've made some mistakes when deciding on where we want to live and unfortunately, we feel that our new home is not right for us. I was thinking we should sell at least in 2 years but other people suggest we should rent it out in that time frame. Mortgage is about $3,900 a month (including HOA and property tax) and can't imagine trying to rent it out.

I don't want to sell at a loss but understand that with appreciation and costs to consider, it could be strong possibility. I just want to know if there's any helpful suggestions I could get for what I should do in the next 2 -4 years for a total newb in real estate.

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