Help! Flip not selling, should I eat loss or hold and rent?

Help! Flip not selling, should I eat loss or hold and rent?

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Hoping someone can help. Flipped a house (gorgeous, made timeline, and close to on budget. Best schools great location. Because Of the insane appreciation in this area over past year, it’s taken an early and big hit - prices are down 24% since April. I bought oct 7 with flip financing. San Jose Ca. 

I have 1.29 in property. Priced at 1.299 (couple of low offers), dropped to 1.22 a month later with offer date. Lots of interest, 12 disclosed packets, great fb in house (except it’s small in lower end of sq ft in area)  no offers. If i have to reduce price to 1.18, should I sell and eat the loss or should I refi ti standard mortgage of 940,000 (4.5% interest) pay off first loan, and hold and rent? My mortgage including taxes insurance would be ~5500. Rent would be 3800. Would plan on keeping 7-10 years. Hard to say about appreciation but in this area over 10 years it runs on average in the 7-8% appreciation area (not basing off the last two years insanity). 

Seems like not great deal to buy it but I don’t want to lose the $140,000. 

Can you help me figure out how to figure this out??

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  • Rental Property Investor · Edmond, OK · Member since 2017 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    7y

    Can you provide a link to the listing? You may be able to get some good feedback if people are able to see the listing. 

  • Developer · Magnolia, DE · Member since 2017 · 75 posts · 28 votes
    7y

    @SANDRA Hillhouse sell and move on. It may appear as a loss but the time, stress and energy will cost you more in lost opportunities moving forward.

  • Theresa HarrisPro Member
    Member since 2019 · 15k+ posts · 11k+ votes
    7y

    If your mortgage, taxes and insurance are $5500 and rent would be $3800, you'd be losing another $1700 a month or $20.4K per year.  You could rent it for a year to see if the market improves.  Someone who is more familiar with the US taxes could also tell if the tax implications of flipping vs holding as that may make a difference.

  • Twana RasoulBusiness Member
    Real Estate Agent · San Diego, CA · Member since 2017 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    7y

    @SANDRA Hillhouse Don’t set a single price, give a range to attract multiple offers so people will naturally put their highest and best. Maybe something like 1.15-1.29 range or 1.1-1.3. It will attract buyers that have set their max at 1.1 and maybe with multiple offers you can push one up to the high end and maybe an offer starting with a 1.2?

    Best of luck!

  • Investor · Columbus, GA · Member since 2014 · 2k+ posts · 1k+ votes
    7y

    It's over priced apparently. There is no way I would use a $1.29M property as a rental. Your carrying costs alone are a good reason to cut your losses. I'm sure you learned a lot, and that is valuable.

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