Too much gun play from the drug cartels put people's lives in danger.   

Your ask of low price point with high cash value could be a D-class neighborhood and drug dealers might be your most significant competition.

Plus, the most popular investment destination, Medellin, isn't by the beach.Many people still think about Pablo Escobar and the drug wars, as well as the FARC guerrilla when they think about Colombia.

Going over to the Tamaulipas state might be tricky given how rough it is, but it's got great location, and if we ever get a more common sense drug policy, and things calm down there, it'll be worth much more.  

What do you do if, for example, the government or local drug cartel decides that it no longer wants foreigners investing in Real Estate and seizes the property or starts extorting fees and bribes?

I'd love to know what kind of drugs these people are on who not only take demo debris for free, but they even come pick it up.

There are drug problems up there.

No Gand graffiti or if you watched for an hour you couldn't spot a drug house?  

Being young and barely going to the doctor i have accumulated a few thousand in an HSA that i use every once in a while to buy new prescription glasses or contacts.

For example, if you have fire, drug crimes, murder, etc. in your apartment building, it can bring the whole property down.