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.

I would rather take the first position and control my losses then to be at the mercy of senior lien holders who could care less about my lien interest or my money.There are investors who only play in the B piece and above arena instead of first position but is high risk.I think the risk the junior investor is taking on is more than fair asking for their requirements.

.$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.

Your best cases will be seniors and folks on disability with limited means and limited choices.  

–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.

As an alternative you may want to look at some of the Crowd funding short term debt deals I think foreign citizens may be exempt from the accredited investor US regs..and or Look at investing in some mortgage funds here I the states..