EPB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why sell up? > Why not find tenants for your present house - > that'd pay the rent on your new place, and you'd > still have the equity in your present house > intact. Until you want to sell, but then you can just throw your tenants out with a month's notice if you've played the short-term lease card correctly can't you? I mean, hey, it's their fault for renting. ETA: For some people a rented property is a home - not an investment opportunity or a short-term ladder-climbing solution.