Playa again has the luxury shops on the 5th Avenue but it also has the US big box retailers, including WalMart.

You have the luxury of living in an area with great investment returns, so I'd recommend keeping your first buy local.  

I do only on my luxury properties or direct bookings.

(I understand DC can be quite a bit more than the surrounding areas, though I'm not clear why).(2) basic and luxury finishes. 

It's ultra luxury, so from a pure investment/cash-flow standpoint, the numbers don't make a lot of sense.

Local residents should take initiative to fix their own neighborhoods and lives.Maybe I'm cold and believe that people should be responsible for their own lives-- and in the slums, that could mean 80 hours a week, getting off welfare, educating oneself, skimping by on Ramen and having no TV/phone/cable/other luxury service or goods, shopping thrift stores for clothes, not smoking or drinking (expensive), not going out to eat or to clubs or movies when poverty-striken on welfare, cutting all expenses when on welfare and taking any job that's offered, making wise choices, and moving away from the slums.

Hi Wilson,Luxury Agents in California do regularly market to buyers in China.

But yeah, I should invest in appreciation and enjoy life when I'm 60 (which is when my loans mature and I can start selling AKA retire). yes agree but sometimes some people might not have the luxury or mobility when they reach to a certain age and enjoy the appreciation that they have been accumulating.

Unfortunately I can't put my lodging allowance to a personally owned property, or else I would totally do a house hack.

I'm only thinking fuel, tolls, lodging and meals.