QUOTE(Nutty @ Mar 13 2008, 12:00 PM)

It is optional to provide bank statements, real estate papers, investment portfolios. Any "assets" that enhance your financial profile.
If someone wants to use the assets, then those should be provided. But if one uses his/her income only, those are not needed and I don't think, those enhance one's financial profile in this case. They primarily focus on the sponsor's current salary/wage. In fact, if one uses I-864EZ (a shorter version of I-864), he/she even should not send those.