<prompt> Human: My husband and I bought a house last April, but 6 months after we moved we found out there would be a large gas station directly behind our home. The car wash would back up to our fence and the entrance would be right beside our driveway. We had no intention of selling so quickly and only sold because of the development of the gas station that we felt would be unsafe for our 2 toddlers. We decided to do FSBO and thankfully made a little over 20,000. We were only in the house for 10 months, so is there any way we wont have to pay taxes on the 20,000 we profited because of the circumstance? My husband has always done our taxes online, but should we pay for a professional to do them next year?  <response>: Id get a CPA this year. You have short term capital gains from the sale of the house, but Im sure you have expenses too. A CPA can help with all that. 