Should I sell my house or rent it out? Around Killeen that question usually arrives with a set of PCS orders and a report date that does not move. The house near Fort Cavazos was bought for one assignment, the next one is somewhere else, and there are maybe sixty days to decide. I buy houses for a living, including a lot of houses owned by people who have already moved away. So I see how both choices play out a few years later. Where something is law, I name the section I read. Where it is my experience, I say so. Should I sell my house or rent it out: the two clocks that decide it Most of the advice online is about rent versus mortgage. That matters, but in my experience the decision is usually made by two clocks most owners have never looked at: the federal tax clock on your gain, and... 10/14/2026