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Option 1 is tough since you need to maintain the home. Do you have friends & family there who would check on your house on a weekly basis atleast? Renting the home is better and usually you can get property management companies do it for you for about a month fee for a full year rental. Storage is a bad idea especially since you will be gone for 3 years. You might as well ship everything to india and start fresh when you come back. You may want to consider taking some equity out and investing it in a FD in india for the next 3 years. Keep year's worth of mortgage payment in your us account so you can keep paying it.