@Emme W.Contact @Maya Clark  She is a Realtor Broker in Oakland and she owns investment property and has worked with a number of investors for over a decade

At the request of an interested party, I agreed to put some of my properties for sale in the Riviera Maya with real seller financing.

@Maya Teague definitely, I just sent you a request.

@Jason Cacioppo In my opinion, if someone is going to trade time for money for the next 10 years, you may as well do it in a job that will continue to pay you after you leave.

I am a real estate professional in Mexico, but in the Riviera Maya if it is a market you are interested in exploring.

Check NAR and FreddieMac at least weekly and go over some of their blogs to get a sense of where the market is, where it's going, and so on.In regards to your last questions, you may as well call a local lender and ask them.

You are unlikely to ever see any of the money, so you may as well do collections and let them spend the time trying to locate him.

If we operated our business based on what  tenants say or do we may as well place them in charge of our business.

If you don't spend the time, well you may get lucky, but you may as well get taken as well. 

So you may as well add new kitchens, baths, maybe a roof, probably a hot water heater, maybe an HVAC, maybe siding and Windows, definitely floors unless you go tile... to the "cash flow" model if your looking long term or expect to lose in appreciation rates relative to the guy up the street that just sold brand new trendy stuff.