Should I sell my farmland or keep renting it out?
Deciding between holding farmland for steady rental income or selling it for investment cash depends on balancing immediate family financial needs with long-term returns. Relying on rental income or sale proceeds to cover current household expenses and raising a family makes it difficult to weigh future investment growth against present-day survival.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Renting out the land to generate passive annual income
- 2Farming the land directly
- 3Evaluating potential returns from investing sale proceeds in the stock market or high-yield savings accounts
- 4Selling the home immediately and investing the proceeds into the stock market or high-yield savings accounts
- 5Hiring a property management agency to handle the responsibilities of leasing out the home
- 6Trying to rent out the property while managing a monthly deficit and hiring a property manager
- 7Selling the property and reinvesting the proceeds into the market
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Would it be better to keep renting it out or to sell it and invest the profits?”source ↗
“If we actually invest the rental income. Realistically we need it for household updates, kids vehicles, etc.”source ↗
“It's hard to look that future forward when we are raising our family now.”source ↗
“My husband would not immediately retire. I'm a SAHM other than a few hours a week cleaning job. We are in our forties and raising 5 kids on 100k a year if that helps.”source ↗
“Would it be better to sell and put the $ in a high yield savings acct and use the interest, or should I keep the house and make it a rental?”source ↗
Where this came up
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