Passed the NY state exam on the first try here - took my licensing exam in Manhattan.  

I used to know people who lived in stroudsburg, pa, and commuted into manhattan to work via bus 5 days a week.  

Mostly in Gramercy Park or the Chelsea area in NYC. 1 - 3 bedroom condos that have been sold and rented out to tenants, etc. or properties that were bought and then flipped.http://www.citihabitats.com/manhattan-real-estate-...Below is a list of existing inventory for the Morgan Manhattan Team.http://www.citihabitats.com/manhattan-real-estate-...

I work in midtown Manhattan, and if you're ever around the area, I'd love to meet up for coffee/lunch and exchange notes ;-)

For example an galley Kitchen in Manhattan’s nicer neighborhoods, my customers will go with what’s in now, as opposed to thinking down the road to next tenant.

The top-tier urban areas like NYC (Manhattan/Brooklyn/parts of Queens mainly) are trading at such ridiculously low cap rates that the primary method of generating significant returns is with value-add strategies -- at least in the commercial realm. 

There is a reason that a tiny condo in Manhattan will cost you a million bucks and house in the midwest or south will cost you 30k.

We leave treats from a German bakery at our vacation rental - Lake House.We don't leave anything at our PF vacation rental (mountain house) that sleeps 23 people.

A bedroom in A Manhattan apt may go for 65-95 per night, because comparable square footage in a hotel would be $200+.

@Bob Bowling was also trying to tell you, you can get equal/greater appreciation returns in select usa markets- Manhattan/brooklyn, costal southern CA, SF/Bay, Hawaii and a few others.