What I particularly like about Las Terrenas and the Samana Peninsula is that there is a new international airport there and there's new motorway from Santo Domingo through Santo Domingo airport who cut the travel time in two (2.5 hours from the capital and 2 hours from the airport).

many places will charge you extra for a certain type of edge, or for sink cut outs etc.

Cutting tiles can be a challenge if you have angle and corner pieces but a basic install isn't too hard.

If you want to DM me, I can send you some info on the suppliers.It's about $175/unit for the meter, but you need to include install cost (cut, tap the water pipe).  

None of this stuff by itself is a ton of money, but add it all up and it cuts into profits.

I've also looped in @Scott Smith (who has yet to reply) and feel it is time to cut my losses and start over with another firm.I could've gotten the same level of service and attention to detail for a 10th of the cost by going to legal zoom.

You can install a digital sub metering system without even cutting any pipes or getting the utilities involved.

Basically, 25% down plus 6 months in reserves and then another pot of money so you don't toss all of your savings into a new investment.If you are planning on house hacking, you can cut the downpayment percentage way down.

I have never had to make this hard a decision but after doing the same thing over and over again, do we cut our losses.

The objective is to cut down on expenses as little as possible even tho I will not have cash flow.