Account Closed I am looking to close next year on a property in Playa Del Carmen, my wife is a Mexico citizen and can own the property and not be on a land lease.

You need to have invested a "significant sum" into a business over here and show a business plan that will employee 5 or more US Citizens within 5 years.

.$1000. dollar assessments are common in my area for senior citizens in effort reduce their property taxes, compliments of our county tax payers.

As a consequence, cities are running larger deficits and going bankrupt and the citizens in those Cities are paying higher taxes in support of amenities shared with the subdivisions (schools, arenas, etc).The initial attempt to address this imbalance of tax-base to services was an accelerating trend towards amalgamation of bedroom communities that we have seen over the past 20-years.

Have not checked Sac Bee, Elk Grove Citizen, Carmichael Times, Folsom Telegraph, Rio Linda News or Sacramento Gazette for this week..Any advice on how to structure filing system??

–are meant to protect citizens from ill-prepared or unscrupulous self-styled individuals engaging in the practice of real estate for a "consideration", monetary or in kind; they are assuming and performing an "agency" role in a real estate transaction for compensation.

I realize this opens the door for predatory slum lords, but I have never been a fan of placing more regulations and laws on law abiding citizens in an effort to punish the few predators. 

This has proven to be a much healthier way of our senior citizens to live out their golden years as opposed to going to a facility to wait to pass.

I'm curious to know what its like for citizens of other countries, both in terms of investing in real estate abroad and here in the USA.

Maybe they've been here a very long time, own property and business, have had kids (citizens) here and are in line to become citizens.