It will help immensely to build a network. 

Up until about 3 yars ago, it seems Tulum was a quiet coastal town, but its grown immensely in tourist and that has attracted the cartels and hence the crime.

@Roberto Kattan- 1) locate a realtor for the  Roch rea thats   familair with  invesment props  ...they can  help immensely    2)  if you will need  to use  financing - make sure ou are  fully pre approved  

I know it will help to have a mentor and connections to immensely fast track my goal but there was no way I could come up with $40k that time (after reading abit in BP, creative financing sure is interesting!)

What have you seen that has helped your property immensely to stand out from the crowd, outside of your typical “updated” or beach front view with pool cases?

(This frustrated me immensely because I was going to pay off a higher interest debt and take the higher payment after the 18 months.)

I’ve found a core group of people that I can trust, and I’ve learned how to evaluate the borrowers and good contracts to use to protect my money, and that's helped me immensely.

If you have heard of Africanized bees or killer bees, they aren't in NY; they are only in southern states, likely FL and Texas, and maybe a little further north. 

It looks like they want to mind using hydro electric, 100% sustainable Ecuador installs its 1st bitcoin ATM Turkey is working on its own bitcoin and crypto regulation framework The African country that just adopted bitcoin has money is proposing proposing a sanctuary/district.

Quote from @Josh Cissell: Josh, thank you so much for all this information, it will help me immensely!