# Sell house or keep as rental?

**URL:** <https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/sell-house-or-keep-as-rental/122>\
**Category:** Retirement Accounts and Strategies\
**Created:** [October 26, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/sell-house-or-keep-as-rental/122 "2022-10-26T00:15:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![gmachinz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@gmachinz](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/u/gmachinz)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/sell-house-or-keep-as-rental/122/1 "2022-10-26T00:15:04Z")

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So I plan to pay off my mortgage within the next 2 years. My wife wants to sell and move-I want to retain the property (we have a LOT of upgrades on it now) and put everything we own (and my online retail business) in a trust and create passive income from the rental as long as we can. Pros/cons? I feel long term its better to keep the property and I can perform nearly everything contractor wise-then the plan is to expand to more home rentals once we create a real eatate portfolio.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex046/uploads/msbpod_openforum/original/1X/42f4af5f452c22dd6feece9c5b47d6a5185fa706.png) [@system](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://discussion.mainstreetbusinesspodcast.com/t/sell-house-or-keep-as-rental/122/2 "2022-11-10T18:19:01Z")

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We covered this on today’s Open Forum Show on our sister podcast “The Directed IRA Podcast”, Episode 76. Check it out here: [https://directedira.com/podcast/.](https://directedira.com/podcast/.) The show will be released/uploaded to iTunes on November 14th. Thanks so much for listening and participating!! Mark and Mat