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Should You Keep Your Old Home? The Financial Case for Selling vs. Renting

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Planning a big move? Learn how to decide whether you should sell or rent your home and fund your next down payment. Should you sell or rent out your home when you move? What’s the best way to fund a down payment from multiple accounts? Host Sean Pyles talks to NerdWallet writer Lisa Green about the big financial decisions that come with relocating across a long distance. Joined by listener David, they explore how to evaluate whether keeping a home as a rental makes sense, and what it takes to manage that property from a distance. They begin with a discussion of long-distance landlording, with tips and tricks on hiring a property manager, maintaining a savings cushion, and considering the tax benefits of depreciation and travel deductions. They also discuss which accounts to withdraw from with minimal tax consequences, how to leverage a HELOC before moving, and how the timing of a move can impact your financial strategy. Learn about down payments and calculate how much to put down on a house: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/down-payment-calculator  If you’re ready to find the right mortgage with expert guidance every step of the way, get started today at https://www.nerdwallet.com/prequalify/m/mortgage-experts/lp1  In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: renting out your home after moving, long distance landlord tips, property manager costs, managing a rental property from another state, home equity line of credit for down payment, how to get money for a home down payment, using Roth IRA for home purchase, cashing out taxable investments for a down payment, capital gains tax on investment sales, moving across the country with kids, how to prepare financially for a move, cross-country move costs, downsizing before a move, furnished rental property tax benefits, rental property depreciation, rental property travel tax deduction, renting furnished home to traveling nurses, comparing cost of pods vs U-Haul, best way to move long distance, property management for out-of-state rental, rental vacancy costs, tax benefits of keeping a rental property, how to handle moving logistics, financial planning for relocation, and how to access money for a house down payment. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

Hey listeners, Sean here. And Elizabeth. We are off for the Memorial Day weekend, but we have a special

0:36.5

episode for you in store.

0:38.1

We do.

0:39.0

So while you guys are eating barbecue, if that's your thing and having fun with family, enjoy this episode.

0:44.7

We'll be back in a few days with another brand new episode of Smart Money.

0:48.0

And in the meantime, make sure to send us your money questions.

0:51.4

Maybe you're sitting back, enjoying a beer, eating a burger, and thinking,

0:54.6

what am I doing with my life and my money? We want to help you. And if you want to send us your

0:59.1

question, you can send it to us on the nerd hotline at 901-730-63. That's 901-730 N-E-R-D.

1:08.9

If email is your preference, you can also pop us an email at podcast at nerdwallet.com.

1:13.6

All right, talk soon.

1:15.6

Welcome to Nerd Wallet's Smart Money Podcast, where you send us your money questions and we answer them with the help of our genius nerds.

1:25.6

I'm Sean Piles.

1:26.6

We're back in answering your

1:28.0

money questions to help you make smarter financial decisions. This episode, we're joined by a listener,

1:33.5

David, who's planning a big cross-country move with his family and has many questions about the

1:38.3

financial and logistical challenges of moving, including whether they should sell or rent out

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