Our plan was to spruce up the house and rent it out when we were in New York for long stretches.
If a house you rent out has greatly appreciated, you can avoid capital gain taxes by moving back into it for two years.
As I looked for a house to rent I was surprised how a one-bedroom condo in downtown was the same price as a four-bedroom house only five miles away.
But mortgage interest payments are not included in the CPI, nor are a variety of other costs, such as house depreciation, buildings insurance and ground rent, and house transaction costs such as estate agents' fees, survey costs and conveyancing charges.
The rise has also been blamed on high house prices, rent and low wages.
The first was that I should buy a house rather than rent temporarily as I had planned.
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Rental agents are motivated to sell you a house rather than rent you one so as to collect a higher fee.
Mr Brown told MPs on Monday the government was consulting on whether to allow councils to keep all the money raised from council house sales and rent.
If you can rent the house out and comfortable cover the mortgage, then you have a recipe for slow, steady wealth building.
Earlier this year, the Welsh government left Gwydyr House in Whitehall to rent its own London HQ half a mile away.
That's the annual rent a house would command, minus property taxes, insurance, maintenance costs, losses from occasional vacancies and any fees paid to property managers.
The rest of my days will be the same as now, except I will eat more, exercise less, and rent a house at the beach.
The couple now rent a house across from Singapore's Botanic Gardens.
The most affordable way to stay on Fire Island is to rent a house, but there are also a few (generally more expensive) hotel options.
Because they cannot afford to buy or rent a house in the Valley, many workers have little choice but to commute, in many cases for two hours each way.
Of course, we miss our family and friends terribly, but they have forgiven us for leaving and welcome us enthusiastically when we rent a house near them for a visit.
"People who can't afford to buy yet will live in a loft or apartment downtown and rent a house in the Hollywood Hills with friends as a weekend place, " explained Smith.
Mr. Smith plans to rent the house out for parties and events and later renovate it to make the style more "mountain contemporary, " says Jean Merkelbach of Sierra Sotheby's International Realty, who represented Mr. Smith.
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As August approached, I realized that if Diana wanted to do what we had done for many years she would rent the house we liked on the Cape and take the girls there for the month.
If you are only going to rent your house out for a few days or weeks, you won't have to worry about collecting from deadbeat tenants, since costs for the entire rental period are paid in advance.
There are plenty of ways to transact digitally with traditional currency too, but Mr. Andresen describes the "huge mess" he encountered when he tried to rent a house in France and was buried in fees and delays in wiring the money.
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"We really didn't want to rent a house for a year and then make a whole record with 13, 14, 15 songs on it, then have most of the people who are thinking about buying it buy one song, " she explained.
What if you rent out the house for more than 14 days a year?
An Isle of Man Methodist Minister has denied being homophobic after refusing to rent out his house to a lesbian couple.
If you can share (or rent) your house or car on collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb, RelayRides or Getaround, why not share some of your Wi-Fi access in exchange for more access?
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Professor Steve Wilcox of York University, who carried out the analysis, said that in many areas, people who were unable to buy a house could still afford to rent in the private sector.
Raise the Fed funds rate to 1% immediately and then to 2% what the CPI would be, by the way, if house prices were measured in rent equivalents as opposed to the shreds of a popped bubble.
I'll just turn the house back to the bank and rent for a few years.
It's inexpensive to rent or buy a house here, and most immigrants are able to send money home.
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