What to do with an inherited house

Getting an inherited house is very common. When you have multiple siblings with you, there is a high chance that you have to share the inherited property with your siblings too. Some people decide to either keep it or sell it. The decision of selling or keeping the property can be arrived at based on several factors.

Some financial experts say that if you would be willing to purchase the same property if you had enough cash in your hand, then you should be holding the property. If you wouldn't bother to buy that property even if you had a good cash flow, there is no point in holding that and maybe you can plan on getting some benefits out of it.

Consider your financial situation

The most important thing here to consider is the financial situation. We have to first find out if we really need that property or not. We have to keep the property only if we have some benefit from that. If there are no benefits, then the only advantage we get in holding that property is that it can be useful in the future for our financial needs. But when it comes to investment, it has to happen immediately and not in the future. In the future there will always be new commitments. So it is better to check the current financial situation and plan accordingly.

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Consider the emotional attachment to the property

Some inherited property can be a house where the parents and grandparents lived and mostly it would still be very much intact. In such cases, we might have an emotional connection and may not be interested in selling the property or giving it away to someone else who wouldn't value our emotions. In such cases, it is better to hold the property and wait for the right time to come.

Sell it if there are good offers

If you are ready to sell the property, then it is better to check if the offer is very good. If we are in emergency need of money, we still have to make sure the price we are getting by selling the property is still the right value. We shouldn't be in a haste to finish off selling the property. If you don't have any emotional connection with the property and would like to sell, there are several brokers available who can get you the best price. It is better to find out the worth of the property before blindly selling it.

Giving it away to siblings

Some people also give away their property to their siblings. Mostly this happens when they have an emotional connection with the property and they don't have a real need to hold that property. In that case, they will give the property away to their siblings asking nothing in return. There will also be another case where the siblings would be interested in purchasing the property and it can be closed off as an internal deal where both parties are happy. This way the inherited property stays within the family and the emotional connection will remain intact.

Keeping it to get rentals

Rental income is a good source of passive income. It is good to consider earning a decent passive income from the rentals. Keeping a property idle without generating any income is definitely not a good thing. It is better to find a good tenant who would abide by our conditions and start generating some passive income through rentals.


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Bro, I think it is always better to hold such property. Although in our case we were forced to sell it off as the property was in far off-location and no care taker meant open season for the encroachment. Basically, we were bullied into selling that off for pennies. Couldnt afford to hold on to it. Such is my bad luck with inheritance.

But It was here or in Portblair, I would have kept it for sentimental value but also for the price appreciation.
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Oh yeah bro. But sometimes our current financial needs and family situation also matters. No point in staying abroad and having a house in a village in India. Some people when they go abroad, they don't even come back. So maybe selling is an option only for them.

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Perfectly true tips you offer here

Though some might disagree in the aspect of selling it but I believe that will be the good deed. If there is a better offer, sell it to invest in more better option investment

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If the property is problematic with siblings, the best thing would be to sell it and split among the siblings.

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Inheriting property with siblings can be problematic depending on the siblings. Since a joint decision is usually needed re. Thé inheritance - the less siblings, the better.
Everyone will have their own views on how to handle things. You have listed some possibilities. Hopefully the financial outcome will be favorable for all.

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Otherwise the parents should have a concrete plan for the house and give it away. It creates problems only if it is automatically inherited.

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NowadayS that is one of the best thingsthat can happen to you. Being the housing one of the top if not the TOP 1 problems in this world economic crisis.

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Right here in our country, when the kids grow up and there's a shared property, there's a lot of problems, and we have a property that's very high on the main site at the moment, but it's got so much inside. Very concerned that all these people can never agree and we have never seen this property for sale. It has been for the last 35 years to sell the property, but every time a customer comes, a person It poses a problem.

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