u/Great_Dig2471

Hey everyone ,

I need some advice for a real inexperienced house buyer ( me !)

We bought our home in November for 815,000 and owe $750,000.

My husband makes around $2800 a week after tax and I make around $700 a week .

We used the government incentive to buy ( 5% deposit scheme) and had to pay both lenders mortgage insurance and stamp duty as my husband has previously bought and sold 12 years ago ..

Ok the question .

We hate where we bought . It’s in the Illawarra region ( 1.5 south of Sydney ) and it’s a beautiful area. We bought at an incredibly good price . We are slowly doing some Reno’s to add some value etc

How crazy would it be to lease it out after 1 year and rent where we want to live or should we sell it ?

Would love to use as an investment and purchase another home but I don’t think we make enough . We only have around 5k in savings .

What would your advice be ?

To rent in the Illawarra without it being a complete dump would be around 900 and we could prob lease ours out for $750-800

To sell or lease out !

Need help !

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u/Great_Dig2471 — 16 days ago