You risk making a headache for yourself if you ever want to sell this house in the future, if an upset tenant wants to report you to the city, or any number of other scenarios.

All of those things, unfortunately, increase during a recession, providing a safer base case for self-storage than some other assets.

For us, the hands on training and meeting other student's at their investment properties and directly learning about their buy, rehab, sell and/or hold experiences is valuable.

I plan on renting it for at least a year and then perhaps trying to sell.

Popular theme that can be difficult to execute however increasingly there are borrowers with pandemic era mortgages that are selling and the mortgage can essentially transfer (be assumed) by the next owner.

My question is, is it worth trying to rent the house out or should I sell and try to get into a fixer upper in town where there’s more to do?  

We am currently rehabbing our home to possibly sell or get a HELOC on.

This usually means someone who sells you mutual fund investments and products based on life insurance.

But homes in the Carolinas are still selling for well over list with multiple bids due mainly to the supply and demand issue.

If one of those guys relapses and cooks meth it will be really bad and not only will everyone have to leave but you won’t ever be able to sell the place atleast not for fair market values .