I don't want to pay too much just to save someone's feelings or maintain a friendly relationship with the agent, but I also don't want to come across as a low balling joker either.Do you guys totally disregard the asking price when determining the offer?

I am fairly new to Real Estate but no stranger to cashflow, crunching numbers (spreadsheet whore), and observing markets - Derivatives background.Honestly speaking, it took me a while to find a forum as good as this one so kudos to all involved.My interest in real estate is cash flow (buy and hold) and architectural style, which brings me to almost any brick building (federal style, art deco, chicago etc...) and heavy use of wood trim.

Once you reach condition, the work-out is much easier when all you are doing is maintaining your level of fitness.

That's the way I always looked at maintaining my rentals and working on my flips.

Neal Boortz is the man.Has everyone read the Fair Tax book?

Seems fairly straight forward unless anyone knows if I could be responsible for the mortgages on the properties if there was a default.

Keep in mind I am talking about AZ as a whole which is not entirely fair.

We have a comfortable life here, and when/if we move back to the states, We'd like to maintain it.Hi Tim-Yes, they're building 2 casinos here, a Sands with convention center on the main island just south of the central business district on reclaimed land, and another spearheaded by local Genting Goup on smaller Sentosa Island (sort of a resort/park/ golf development island linked by bridge and monorail) which will include a theme park.Funny thing is, Singapore has resisted having casinos for decades, afraid of turning into another vice-ridden Macao.

You lose the "business" context, and they tend not to treat all fairly and equally.

I have what I think to be a fairly solid plan on what I would like to do.