from my limited experience Baja other than Tijuana and the other border town Colexico I think it is.. the rest of Baja I have always felt safe.6 months is usually the time lines.

I actually have a very good friend who owns 3 square miles of land adjacent a huge National forest bordering Calif and Oregon.

You wouldn't know crossing the border between the two cities if you're not local. 

Very rare opportunity indeed.And sure, some will come in here and poo-poo all over this idea once again, talking about how Stockton is a tertiary market, we're at the top of the market, the bubble is about to burst, and so on and so on...But remember, they said the same thing about Sacramento, too...If it were me, I would take the gamble on Downtown Stockton, develop some millennial bait with some cool lofts or something and maybe a few high tech features in the home, and ride this development wave out and watch the property values skyrocket.Or you could always just buy that turn-key property you've never seen in some far away state and hope you don't get screwed over by the developer like a reader of my weekly newsletter just did... but that wouldn't be very wise now would it?

@Eileen Murray That all depends on which agent you encounter (re: US Customs and Border Protection).

As a teenager in the border town of El Paso, Texas, I went on more than one mission trip into Mexico to work with kids in orphanages.

@Devin Borders  No problem, hopefully this it was helpful!

They may have nice appreciation but that's a bit of a gamble.

It would be better to pay whatever it is for testing soil out of pocket before closing and lose the money if tanks leaking then to buy the house as a gamble and have to re-mediate afterwards.

Buying in a hot market with the hope that it appreciates is essentially a gamble.