Stella Guan
1 min readNov 8, 2022

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I'm sorry to hear. If it's mainly a family area, it is hard to find renters inherently, especially if it's the suburbs as most tend to buy if they have families. It's a lot different if it's a semi-urban or urban area - people who choose to live there, even with families, tend to be more willing to rent. House hacking - you living in one room and renting out the rest might be the best option but then if you don't want to live there yourself, it might be difficult to make this work.

One thing I learned was if you can afford to spend sometime making contacts who are in the residential care facilities business, they might find your property appealing. They usually rent for 5+ years and have their own insurance. Residential area works for this type of businesses as it is residential care. It's harder to find those contacts but not impossible.

Find qualified renters - even if they are just renting a year or less - so that you can at least recoup some money or try to break even until you figure out what to do with it. But beware of rental laws in that state because some states make it very hard to evict bad tenants, in which case you will have "squatters". Best of luck!

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Stella Guan
Stella Guan

Written by Stella Guan

Digital nomad designer and entrepreneur between the US, Europe & Asia | CEO of Path Unbound, UI/UX design school | www.stellaguan.com | youtube.com/@stella-guan

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