Manhattan is basically the most expensive location in the game to own any properties in. You're either paying really steep prices or really steep markups just to get these and I opted to go the USD route and spent about $210 of my own money to buy up 3x properties in Upper West Side, Lenox Hill and East Village.
The property that I got in East Village had an apartment already on it which was awesome and all of these properties I got around a 150% or lower markup which is actually really good.
If I wanted to sell these out to UPX instead I certainly could do quite a bit better in UPX than what I spent in USD but I'm also fairly confident that I could get my money back out to USD too if I tried on these.
All in all these were good buys and I'm hoping to eventually fill out my map here a little bit more.