The bar is very low. 

Additionally, should I consider tax implications, given New York’s reputation for high taxes?

We actually enjoyed the experience (shout out to Johnny Reno and the Sax Maniacs), but it was just a bar, just a meal, just a new music group; not your house; so, your level of disappointment was immensely greater than ours.  

Before you make any other moves, do all the repairs and cap ex on this property while you have the equity so when you get something else this one is cap ex free barring something crazy.

In fact, in my pre-licensing course in Mass, the instructor said that if we were ever in a setting with other agents, like a gathering at a bar, and someone said something like "you know, we should all agree to a minimum of Z%" that we were to loudly and publicly excuse ourselves.Business brokering is so much more fun - and we charge a lot more commission too!

There was an article published in the WSJ on January 25th 2001, yes a long time ago, and this was the first paragraph "NEW YORK -- Realtors, already battling Internet companies that have entered the home-selling business, are now organizing to fight a joint proposal of the Federal Reserve and U.S.

As far as the sink area, if it were mine I Would replace the bar sink with a large white or maybe beige oval China Bowl.

If you check in their search bar, there will be dozens of people that have already asked for recommendations on converting a garage into an additional unit.

Small, easy to get around, beach bars, and affordable condos are still accessible (though I worry for how long and if it will end up over developed eventually).

The one place that still imo offers a good combo of being nice, being affordable and having a little upside left imo is the eastern shore of Md, I just bought a flip down there (though it’s pretty hard if not impossible to find great value add even there) but it’s affordable, growing (a lot of people coming from dc, New York, Philly area.) but still not really a big enough market that any major operators are out there yet.