Hello,

    I am writing this to get some advice and perspective from others. I am married and have 3 kids. My parents live 10 minutes away from me. Due to my father's deteriorating health, I plan on purchasing a house where we can all live together. Hence I have been saving money for downpayment. My budget is max 2M and needs 6 bedrooms.

    I have 4 properties now.

    1. Property 1 (2 family, I live in one and rent the other)

    2. Property 2 (2 family, My parents live one and rent the other)

    3. Property 3 (2 family, both units rented)

    4. Property 4 (condo, fully paid off)

    I have financial benefit of 100% property tax exemption due to my disability status. This helps tremendously in the state of NJ where the property tax is high.

    If I were to purchase a new property and move in, then I plan on renting all units. Based on my calculations, I should have net $9500/month from above 4 rental properties income after mortgages. This $9500 is just about the mortgage for 2M house with the current interest rate and 20% down.

    20% of 2M is $400k. I was thinking of putting down $200k cash and the other $200k from taking out margin loan from my brokerage account so that I dont have to sell the shares to trigger capital gain taxes. (I have about 1.8M in brokerage account)

    At current state, I get about net $2300/month from rental income. So by moving into a bigger house, I will essentially lose this buffer. I would appreciate if you can provide your feedback.

    I am not necessarily planning to buy a house now as I just dont see how buying a house makes sense at this time. But just wanted to get some feedback to see if my plan is solid.

    HHI: 250k

    Buying a bigger house in NJ
    byu/Melodic-Indication62 inRealEstate



    Posted by Melodic-Indication62

    3 Comments

    1. Why would you buy a new house instead of just moving into the other unit in either of your current duplexes? You could just rent whichever unit becomes vacant and simplify this a whole lot.

    2. Have you used a loan calculator to see if this doable?

      I hate to say this but, why not just make do for now. Pops is settled in the LR or another spare space.

      I make about 9k retired and my mortgage is $900 a month, no prop taxes. I know I can’t dream of selling and moving elsewhere right now.

      Ok so I see prop tax free because of 100% VA comp like me. I just don’t think it makes sense.

      I have 200k equity and 200k cash, and I wouldn’t even do 400k loan right now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

      What’s your savings currently?

    3. filenotfounderror on

      What program is offering you 100% tax exemption based on disability?

      The only 100% property tax exemption is NJ is for permanently disabled veterans.

      If you are just disabled, the most you can get is a $250 exemption

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