Basically, kitchen table, family room furniture, basic bathroom stuff and a master bedroom.

Management had decided to go up to "gold star" status, this meant the following expenses for each owner; granite countertops in kitchen, flat screen TV master bedroom and living room, stainless steel appliances, new furniture, etc.

If you don't need the cash flow, then you'll ALWAYs be able to buy more properties, have less invested in equity, and benefit double or triple in appreciation and creating real wealth and pay less or no taxes.

It has 4 bed rooms and 2 baths.

I can buy the same great discounted properties you do for same investment and have double or triple the # of properties you'll have.

I visited the property every weekend and I ended up spending at least double of what I thought it needed.

The cost of a seven-bedroom villa on Palm Jumeirah dropped to as low as 19 million dirhams ($5.2 million) last month, from 30 million dirhams in September, according to the Dubai unit of German real-estate company Engel & Voelkers AG.

Otherwise you have to double close, and if they use a lender, you can have lots of hurdles.

.$5600 total monthly rents...very large 3 bedroom (could be 4 beds) units in 3 family and 3 smaller beds in single family...i estimate my cash flow at $2233 per month...why shouldnt i raise my offer if needed...i guess im just looking for feedback either way

My general formula is to double what I have into the home as the sales price w/10% min down, we do 80-10-10's and as short of a term as we can get away with.