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.
-
Property 1 (2 family, I live in one and rent the other)
-
Property 2 (2 family, My parents live one and rent the other)
-
Property 3 (2 family, both units rented)
-
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
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.
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?
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