I choose mine because I knew my main goal was to be an investor for the long haul.

Deep Furniture marks and scratches visible not only up close or with special lighting, visible always. other scratches possibly from shoes or toys.  

I'm not sure what I'd be doing with my life if I wasn't spending my work hours doing real estate.How do you like to spend the majority of your days and can your current income situation support that lifestyle over the long haul?

Are you planning to stay in Thailand for the long haul or come back to the US?

If needed, we can haul it over to the properties on a trailer, and so far this winter we have done that only one time.  

This is something people cannot do without.For the record, I recognize that there are some markets across the country that I would not touch, but there is no shortage of healthy suburban areas where I'm comfortable investing in RE, and I would be shocked to see a substantial and widespread crash in values.If that happens, I'll eat my words.I believe if you purchase good assets in landlord-fair states/communities and for the long haul, appreciation is a reasonable thing to expect.

Also looked at small toys for any children coming in. 

Especially if you are offer to pick it up or haul away.Just a thought!

This is including last 2 months of rent, repairs, hauling big size trashes and cleaning.

Another thing to consider asking for is POF to handle the project...so many GCs are robbing peter to pay paul and don't actually have the money needed to manage projects.Lastly, if you are considering a 203k loan whatever you do PLEASE use a GC that has done one before...here in Chicago we get horror stories on a regular basis of people going with the bottom dollar GC and if you are in this for the long haul know that you get what you pay for so don't use the cheap guy!