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Ummm... I hope you didn't cash out your 401k to pay down the mortgage. That's investment-advantaged account that doesn't pay incremental capital gains on each stock transaction. Also, you'll owe penalties if you aren't of retirement age.
I've been thinking of selling the whole thing and fleeing the state. But, there are a bunch of painful costs:
• real-estate cartel will try to grab their 6% (even if they grab 3 or 4% that's a big chunk because it is on the whole thing, not just the appreciation)
• federal and state capital gains taxes. My capital gains will be $2M - $0.8M, so I'm looking at 0.4M in capital gains. (That includes the Obamacare and other extras on high capital gains.)
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The main issue I am dealing with is whether I should pay down the remaining mortgage ($400K) on the current house, save for a downpayment for new townhouse and move into the new townhouse, etc. Trying to figure out what to do?