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Vacant Property Cost Calculator

An empty house isn't free — it bleeds monthly. Put in what you know; leave blanks and the tool uses conservative DMV defaults.

Monthly burn

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Not counted: vacant-property registration fines (Baltimore, DC Class 3 tax status can multiply the tax bill), break-ins, frozen pipes, and code violation fines — the expensive surprises.

The waiting math

Sellers often wait a year "for the market" and spend five figures holding a house that also aged a year. If the plan is to sell eventually, the honest comparison is net-today versus net-later minus everything above. A human review gives you the net-today number for free.

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