<prompt> Human: Hello,My wife and I currently rent and have the chance to stop renting in January. I am considering buying a house in January for a small flip. We currently do a lot of handy projects but nothing like flipping a house but thats what YouTube is for. There is a good chance we will be moving in April of 2019 because that is when my wife will be going back to school. If we plan on buying a cheaper home in the area and repairing, remodeling, and cleaning it up, is it reasonable to buy in January and be able to sell before April of the next year? Extra info: rent is very high in the area but houses are selling for very cheap in the area. 80k-130k. By January we should both have steady jobs. Assistant: Its highly unlikely you will make enough money to recoup the transaction costs unless you get the house VERY cheap. People who flip houses professionally have already made or lost their investment when they buy the house.You also wouldnt qualify for the tax advantages even if you did make some money on it since you would not have lived there long enough.Even with expensive rent, I would 100 not buy a house for that short of a time horizon.Human: Rent would be 12,000 for those months. Do you think we would lose more than 12 grand in that process? The plan would be to simply break even by the time we leave.  <response>: Easily. 