Maybe chat with a financial advisor and have them help you set up an IRA and throw 25k directly into that on a high/medium/low-risk level and watch that slowly grow as a slush fund for further investments. 

Watching BP push Airbnb benefits on here (in my opinion) makes feel a little sick to my stomach. 

I have been at this site from very early on and watched it change over the decades.I would not say a BP convention has no value.

We just always hear about people getting started buying their first property, and even on a lot of the webinars we watch they run the numbers, get a couple hundred dollar cash flow deals and call them good.

It's good to at least watch the process unfold.

Would love to connect with others that know that market better and watch for deals and hoping to get something in the next month or two. 

. $700 times 7 times, $5000 wasted.I encourage you to watch this show....

It's great to watch that net worth grow with real estate!

I recommend reading a ton of books, watching podcasts, and connecting with investor friendly agents that connect you with the other members of your core-4. 

Every extortion attempt I have experienced in Baja has happened North of Ensenada.Beyond Ensenada are cool things like wineries (I do not drink wine), La Bufadora and its blow hole, great little fishing villages, Gurerro Negro and Scammons Lagoon (best whale watching on earth), San Pedro Martir (least visited forest region within a day of San Diego and has the twin Picacho del Diablo peaks and the national observatory), numerous Missions in various degrees of condition, hot springs, party towns (San Felipe), surf towns, snorkel/diving (anywhere in Sea of Cortex in Baja Sur), Sand Dunes (Baja races), etc.My worse theft south of Ensenada has been some bottled water.So the question is why Rosarito?