Understand the importance of doing your due diligence and make sure that you deal with legit and trustworthy people.The good news is that, after having invested for several years there, I haven't heard of any serious problems with foreigners systematically getting into legal trouble related to real estate purchases (mind you, there must be some statistically speaking, as there would be anywhere).

Sounds like you are trying to do a Lease with Option to Purchase.This requires 3 separate documents:1) Lease2) Option Contract3) Purchase contract triggered when tenant enacts Option Contract.National statistics show that around 65% of Lease-Options fail.

Generally if you look for properties in locations with stronger macro statistics you will see that rents and price points tend to diverge from each other.

And rents are decreasing in metro Atlanta per my Costar account data -- granted that's multifamily statistics.

Interesting statistic.

A human behavior and statistically-based concept.  

One very interesting statistic they cited was that Mid-Term rental bookings are up 94% in 2023.

I would look into the actual crime statistics of Port Angeles as my take as a PT native is it's pretty mellow compared to metro areas. 

We know this from statistics.

The real statistic is that 2 million have visited the Tulum archeological ruins during some year before the pandemic.