Heloc for primary home or Heloc for investment property/ or both?

Heloc for primary home or Heloc for investment property/ or both?

Member since 2021 · 3 posts · 0 votes

New here so I apologize in advance for this novice question. I reside in WA State in a small waterfront community called Hansville. Purchased the home in 2018 and it was built in 76. The home is a rambler (2000SF) and sits on 2 level lots. Purchased for 458k now worth about 750k.

Because of the age of the home it's in dire need of a remodel. In addition, I have so much unused and underutilized space in the form of a 3 attached garages. I'd like your honest feedback on a few scenarios I'm pondering. In addition, I'd welcome your experienced input if you would do something different than what I'm thinking. 

Scenario #1. Get a Heloc to remodel the dated home and convert the 3 car garage into an apartment to earn extra income/pay down the heloc. Fairly confident I could get between $2200-$2600 a month as a long term rental. 

Scenario #2. Get a Heloc to convert only the 3 car garage into an apartment for traveling nurses?

Scenario #3. Get a Heloc to convert only the 3 car garage into an apartment for AIR BNB ? 

Scenario #4.  Do no remodel to the primary house or 3 car garage: get a Heloc to build a detached garage which would include an apartment upstairs for either short term or long term tenants? (There is enough room indeed for this) 

Scenario #5. Get a Heloc and do some form of a remodel and also use some of the proceeds for an investment property. 

Scenario #6. Do nothing to the primary residence and use the HELOC to assist in purchasing one or 2 investment properties?

You can also view my property on Zillow: 37966 Fawn RD NE. Hansville WA. You'll get a good sense of how "long" the property is and the pictures of the garages. Photos 14 thru 18 show the 3 car garage extra storage room and garden room. 

I'm not interested in selling by the way so please no solicitors.

I'm genuinely interested in comments based on your experience. The pros and the cons. 

Thanks in advance for any information you can share. 

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  • Will BarnardPro Member
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    Developer · Santa Clarita, CA · Member since 2008 · 15k+ posts · 10k+ votes
    4y

    That is a lot of scenarios to consider and without knowing the financials of each, difficult to give an opinion worth anything. I would suggest you find out what the cost would be for each scenario, find out what the actual rent would be in each, calculate all the expenses associated with each rental scenario, and layout the numbers side by side in a spreadsheet to analyze and compare them. Perhaps engaging your experienced real estate CPA would be very useful here as well and money well spent.

    For scenario 6, you will need to look into what other investment options you could do with HELCO proceeds and add those options into the spreadsheet as well.

    For the sake of it's importance, I will also repeat the following: engage your CPA on this if you do not have extensive experience in underwriting deals and analyzing financials of investment rental property.

  • Member since 2021 · 3 posts · 0 votes
    4y

    Will,

    Thanks so much for the reply and the information. Appreciate you taking the time to reach out and I'll take your advice. 

  • Lender · Seattle, WA · Member since 2014 · 2k+ posts · 899 votes
    4y

    John - I like   scenarios  1 and  5 ......what you might want to do is to get the heloc  in place for  as  high an amount as  possible   as this  will  give you the  funds  to  do the remodeling  you desire  plus  provide  extra  funds  for  possible  down payment  funds  if you decide to buy  

    you  dont pay interest  on the heloc unless its pulled out 

    fyi - the heloc lenders  are  going up to a 90% combined loan value in most cases  

    fyi - if you decide to buy another rental property - the min down payment for SFR is 15% of the purchase price

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