@David Shelby - I had a similar question a few months ago and thought that I needed to get a broker’s license.

What are your thoughts?

It also seems to imply that illegal units will get amnesty (note an ADU law providing fed a 5 year amnesty on unpermitted units, but this seems to be a perpetual amnesty).Thoughts?

I thought about buying a multi family (maybe 4 unit) and keeping one for myself and then renting out the other 3. 

Yet, you can do online searches and, most importantly, use your common sense.A few days ago, one of you asked me what I thought about a particular development in Tulum he was thinking of buying into.

as @Russell Brazil said, show up and prepare to close.

For example: If I bought a house for $200K, and the quote to construct the very same house in the same location is $300K, then the value of improvements should be considerably high ($200K) and the value of the land be considered negligible (closer to 0).Of course this helps depreciate more improvements in the life of the property, but I would like to hear your thoughts on whether this logic would hold up with IRS in the event of an audit.What do you think?

I work three days a week as an MRI technologist currently with 4 days off, so my thought is that I could definitely stand to pick up extra in hopes to make those connections!

Love the creative thoughts there Samuel.

Any thoughts on this strategy?