All Forum Posts by: Matthew Lengel

You should be able to do a 1031 exchange and not realize any capital gains. There are some rules with it so do your homework but this will limit any capital gains you will incur.

http://www.atlas1031.com/1031-exchange-rules-requirements

Hey Pete,

You would have to live in it for 2 out of 5 years for the primary residence exclusion to occur. I have just house hacked in 2015 down in manayunk and split another multi family with my brother around the corner from me a couple months back. We went FHA but at the end of the day it's all about how the numbers make sense. I would look more at cash on cash returns or discount rate of return when calculating valuations as they will take into account the financing of your property better than Cap rate will which will assume you bought the property in cash.