Just spit balling but.....what if; % rates don't go down, inflation doesn't go down & unemployment ticks up, all over many years.

Stay on the ball with learning and making friends to nail it in owning property.Thanks!

To me these numbers are staggering and while I don't have a crystal ball, it's hard for me to imagine a scenario where taxes do not increase in the very near future to try and "right the ship."

With no experience and little knowledge in real estate, is there a strategy I should consider just to get the ball rolling and collect knowledge?

As for the gastronomy, you can find nice restaurants like anywhere in the world really but, out of personal experience, you can't beat the food of the better all-inclusive resorts there and that's precisely one of the reasons people go for that option.To answer your question, as you know, Punta Cana accounts for 2/3 of the tourism in the Dominican Republic so, the first time I went, I was wondering about buying a short-term rental there.

I ran some numbers (ball parking of course) and I actually make more lucrative cash flow through a fund returning 8% than a note amortized at 11-12%.

There is some room for further negotiations, but now you have placed an anchor price and showed the criteria you need to get the deal done, so the ball is in the seller's court now. 

And if they did, it would cost you way too much.You are behind the eight ball, which is probably why you are here, but it's not adding up.

I can't go to the industry I had success in and tell them look at what I did and do that, it's a completely different ball game.

Although to use the words a little more precisely, its not where's the profit, it's where's the cash.