Rent-vs-sell for a departing owner: lay out the trade-offs
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1 · Learn the move · Comparison matrix
A homeowner moving out asks 'should I sell or rent it?' and the wrong move is to pick for them off numbers you don't have. A comparison matrix pins both paths. Sell now vs. keep and rent. To the same rows so the trade-offs sit side by side, with every missing figure showing as UNKNOWN instead of an estimate, and no crowned winner. If they rent, tenant screening runs on stated lawful criteria only. Never on who the applicant is.
Build a Sell-vs-Rent comparison matrix from only my figures. Same rows both sides, UNKNOWN for gaps (don't estimate), no winner. End on the honest trade-off. Flag tax items for a CPA. First-pass for the owner to verify, not advice to sell or hold.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Your client is relocating and owns a house: a recent CMA puts the sale price around $400,000, the mortgage payoff is $220,000, and current PITI is $1,650/month. A rental comp suggests $2,400/month market rent. Selling costs, future appreciation, rent growth, and the tax picture (capital-gains exclusion, depreciation) are all undetermined. Write a prompt that lays out sell-vs-rent side by side without picking a side or inventing the missing numbers.
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