Suppose you're not sure whether you're going to keep a cat or not?

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Although I would never refuse a cat, any cat, food and water, I'm starting to have my doubts about Maxie, the stray I took in a few weeks ago, and the way things are working out --- not. For one thing, Columbus chases Maxie every time he sees him. For another, Maxie keeps pooping on the cellar rug and floor rather than in the litterbox, and finally, Maxie only acts nice when he knows he's going to be fed. He tries to bite me when I pet him. I already have a cat that bites me by the name of Mimi. And finally, Maxie really doesn't want to stay indoors. He hangs around the door, waiting for me to open it so he can go out.I think that Maxie is part feral anyway. Thank God, he's clean and has no worms. The only issue is getting him spayed, which means that I'm obliged to keep him as a pet if I do. That is, always having to worry about him running away and putting up with a stinky basement. I don't want to take him to a shelter. Even though he's relatively young, about a year or a year and a half, he probably wouldn't be adoptable. I'm weighing my options here. It's going to set me back some 200 dollars to get Maxie fixed and a couple more bucks for his feline leukemia vaccination. I'm also in a quandry. Part of me wants to let him out, feed him and hope for the best, while the other part wants me to keep him indoors. What to do?