Buying & Selling Real Estate
Market News & Data
General Info
Real Estate Strategies

Landlording & Rental Properties
Real Estate Professionals
Financial, Tax, & Legal



Real Estate Classifieds
Reviews & Feedback
Updated over 7 years ago on . Most recent reply
Renting a unit to your property manager
Hi, I work with a property management company at one of my buildings (a 7 unit) at 9% of rents. One of the units was destroyed by a tenant and need about $7,000 of rehab.
The property manager offered to do rehab in exchange of rented out the unit as her office for free or cheap for a year or two.
Would you do this? Would this effect the property value by decreasing the income I could have had for this unit or could rehab be considered a years rent for tax and property value purposes?
Thank you,
Greg
Most Popular Reply

I might do it but it would reduce the value if you plan to sell it soon. If you are going to hold for 3+ years it probably isnt that big of a deal. The main issue is whether the return to you cashflow wise is better if you just pay the rehab and rent it traditionally. Its really just a math problem.