[CouchMonkey]

Personally, I think there are anough money sinks at the lower levels (10 and below). Also, being a gang leader doesnt help with your cash flow either. I personally have sunk in over 200k of my own money into the gang. That coupled with housing and item costs make it difficult (not impossible) to succeed. I can see there might be issues at the higher levels with the money sinks, especially witht he crimes you get to commit, but lets be caucious here. You dont want to repress the lower levels too much.

Whatever you do (if anything). Make it a sliding scale.