Bought my first home 4 months back for 800K. It’s an isolated new community and the place is boring as hell and we really miss the city vibes. Seriously planning to move back and sell it. Financially it will go for much lesser as it’s a new build and prices seem to have gone down recently. My guess is I will have to take 100k loss. What should I do?

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Can you rent it?

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Better to stay and come to city on weekend and live in hotel/BnB during your boring days it will still be much cheaper than 100k loss

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Even if you lost $2k per month renting it out, you’d be less in the red than selling now and losing $100k outright. I don’t know where the house is, but new developments tend to see incremental development around them within 1 to 3 years, so if you can financially survive and hold it for a few years, you should consider it.

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Live there a bit longer, you’ve only been there 4 months. If it’s a new community, try to get info from the township for other development plans in the area.

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Stick around for two years then rent

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You need to consider that you are the type of person who will instantly regret selling this house, and wonder if you should take an additional 100k hit to buy a new one

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Agreed, if you didn't do the research into your neighborhood, places to go and things to do before investing nearly a million dollars, I'm not sure your snap decision to sell and lose $100k is well thought out either. I like the idea of rent an Airbnb a few weekends, go on a trip, join a swingers club, I don't know but do some due diligence this time.

I hear you, I bought a house in the suburbs and while it was a lively neighborhood with great people, I still missed the city vibes. I was able to rent it for a profit.

Even if you break even, you can look into it. I listed my property on Zillow and used Avail software to run the credit check, create a custom application, create the contract and manage the tenants.

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