I'm lucky enough to be able to live with my parents rent free and with investing $600 into the property for 2 years after the initial year of ownership, I would end up saving around $30k.

So, I thought I should sell, take the profits and put into high interest account, rent a room for myself for about $1100 per month with all utilities included and that way I can save additional funds for a year.

The best thing you can do is work hard to increase earnings, reduce expenses, and save a down payment.

Zillow's API is no longer offered (or they make it extremely hard to access these days - have had no luck finding an updated link/page for it), Redfin has broad-stroke CSVs you can download that only give 5-10 fields of info and not often at the metro area, you can't legally create a tool to crawl these websites...I'm looking for 1 (or a handful of sources) to pull together basic metrics at the metro/city level for US real estate.

As an aside, they can save 6% of the sales price in real estate agent fees by selling to you.

@Mohit AroraLet’s also look at realityTenant doesn’t move in and then you have to “evict” a tenant not there and lose rent and try and collect something that doesn’t existLet them out of the lease, potentially keep the deposit and move onThis is why I also recommend a property manager - they typically will save you in the long run

I would focus more on going to meetups, saving money, and learning, before jumping too soon into something with a hard paydown vs. incoming income and no savings.

Create columns for Name, Street Address, City, State, Zip and then contact info: Last Contact, Relationship, Status, Email & Phone.IMPORTANT: do NOT ask people for THEIR business, ask for referrals!

I am almost 55 and still have kids waiting to go to college so saving will be a little more difficult.

Thinking about capital gains tax implications.I hope that's enough info.