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Since this is the first time, you might wanna rethink your plan. You also might think about making it your personal residence for the next two years. Then it should fall under the Federal rules exempting it from those taxes. It would give you more time to do your repairs and hopefully take some pressure off of you. I know investors who move every 2 years. They do one house after another. Or you can convert it to a vacation rental.
The way it sits, it needs TLC to anything with it. Next summer, I'd bleach those stairs and refinish them. They could be a real asset to the house. And it needs curb appeal. Most of that is elbow grease and making the exterior low mantenance. You might think about a version of a natural yard that will blend into the setting. On the interior, I'd go with a hard floor rather than carpeting. It last longer and it's easier to keep nice. There are a lot of improvements that you can make that won't cost a lot of dollars.
Thanks for the advice!
So after asking around it seems that living in the place for 2 years is the only way to avoid the capital gains taxes. Unfortunately that’s not something I can do at the moment but I definitely like the idea.
I’m thinking that after the first property is sold I’ll use that money to pay off the mortgage of my primary residence. After I do that I can find a home to live in for 2 years to avoid taxes. I don’t want to be paying multiple mortgages. I still plan to flip some homes without living in them though. I’d like to do more than 1 home every 2 years. The taxes are high but I guess that’s what it takes to play this game.
Here’s a brief description of my plan for moving forward. Sell flip #1 and pay off my mortgage on primary residence (66k). Finish flip #2 and use profit for a down payment on something I can renovate and use as a full time rental. Flip another home and pay off rental home #1. That would get me somewhere around $800 of income a month per rental. Repeat the process until I can live off rental income. Along the way I’ll renovate a home and live in it for 2 years to avoid capital gains taxes while having other homes renovated. I want to hit this pretty hard.
Thoughts?