Zero reason for me to rent instead of just selling, right?
I'm moving back to family, so I'll be thousands of miles away. My family all has a bunch of property but I have a career that makes good money, while they have multiple properties and that's basically their job along with being other small business ideas. They keep trying to get me to rent. Hell, they're the ones who kept pushing me to buy in the first place even though I didn't really want to be a homeowner without a family and I've never wanted to be landlord.
- SFH
- bought at $250k, 6.5% interest rate
- Around $1900 mortgage, can rent perhaps for $2500
- Upstate NY
- owned for 3 years
- seller's market, been like this for 5+ years and catching up to the national average
I'm guessing it's kind of not really relevant to the equation but it does feel a little hard to accept as I've paid about $25k in improvements and maintenance, replacing the roof, water heater, etc, and another $50k+ in reno going on but being covered by insurance from a pipe burst.
Posted Feb 15, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC