El Paso is a very different animal from the rest of Texas in that there isn't crazy high appreciation here so the rents allow for solid cash flow if that is what you're looking for.

@Gina Gee  I would love to help but OC is a different animal that the mid-west. 

Multifamily (5+ units) is a different animal than SFR, but there agents (or brokers, as they uniformly call themselves) clearly add value, in my opinion.

@Jonah Gunalda, being a physician there is a group called White Coat Investors.  

If it is more than one investor and pooling funds and deals then that is a completely different animal where you would file for a SEC exemption through a form D then ahve to file with each state the investors are in and have a subscription agreement and other docs drafted. 

Print them off, study them, highlight them, make notes, read some blog posts, and understand the subject.The second document he links includes precise definitions and a guide for landlords to use for screening support animals.

From talking to locals, there's a couple of issues than need to be addressed, some are the non-ecological practices that some of those developers have, unfortunately, our government profits from this investors and allows them to destroy manglers (which are the natural water purifying system of that area) dismantling hectares of mangroves and degraded the habitat of resident and migratory species burying animals alive.There's proof of fecal material floating beneath the city of Tulum, only 20% of the water is sent to the water treatment plant, there's no infrastructure for the exponential growth.The landfills in the middle of the jungle that is leaking hazardous pollutants into the freshwater system and that something that developers won't tell you.I love my country and it would be a disaster for everybody if this place ends up like some other great beaches around the world, that are completely ruined by greedy investors not following the rules.There's no urban or comprehensive master plan, and one of the risks is that Tulum will be like Playa del Carmen is today, overgrown and with environmental devastation.I will advise doing a lot of research before getting something in Tulum, different country, different rules, and practices.

My hope is by end of next year he has a local small MF value add house hack (probably will cost ~$1m so it will be a challenge).Clearly I did not sugar coat the path (except I suspect demo child does not fully convey the true extreme of his behavior; the police knew our address without being told). 

It can get what I call wear stains where people sit or lay their heads so that coating will keep that at bay.Start keeping an eye on Craigslist, FB marketplace and OfferUP for good used furniture. 

It's real money vs stuff animals.