Hi Leonard,We run a real estate business in Quintana Roo, the Mexican Caribbean side, and we have invested ourselves in real estate here.Some general advice if you invest in Mexican real estate: Always work with reliable referrals in Mexico.

Just food for thought!  

I enjoy traveling, thai food, and reading :).

 ( Like the ones setting up a card table out front to sell there posessions for drugs and food.)  

Your next best bet to find something cheap is the North End which is about 3 Miles North of Downtown, but off Woodward and Oakland Aves, or maybe the east Jefferson Area.Also, if your Spanish is pretty solid, and can handle dealing with people without a verifiable job, or immigration papers, SW Detroit, in Mexican Village could be an option.In all these places I mentioned you better be ready to dig in hard on a renovation, and take control of the property.

It's housing/food/travel that everyone borrows for, and the cost is usually more than a UC or Cal State tuition.  

You get the perfect baby clothes, the perfect diapers, research and buy the perfect food, videotape every second of the baby's life.By the third or the fourth, you're just lucky no one has stepped on him/her and the baby is at least partially clothed and is getting food and water.

If you're planning a retail flip, then you're going to have to go up the food chain more with higher priced homes.

More frightening than having to live under a perceived unfair governing system, is to find yourself with no home, no money, no food to call your own, cut off from your support system. 

Holds up to tons of foot traffic (daycare), food cart drags, etc. get it done by someone who can show you their previous work.