Because I am mainly a buy and hold investor, I love the fact that how landlord friendly the state is compared to some of the other parts of the country.

There's advantages and disadvantages, but sometimes your local market kind of forces you to invest out of state - or in my case, out of country :)As others have mentioned, forming a good team is absolutely critical.

Please keep us posted and much good fortune to you my friend!

I am not as fortunate to have the zero down, but even with a 25% down has had significant leveraged appreciation.

I feel fortunate to have been able to find a good group to bounce ideas off of and learn from.

I learned the hard way trying buy something and mexico and lost a lot of money  please please google  and read lots first mexico realestate scams fraud, you are investing in a country where corruption even at the judicial levels is out of control , and even attorney generals governors local were not able to help with anything, i know over 40 investors that lost millions of dollars , do yourself a favor and do business in USA, where even with a bad purchase, flip, rental  can recover some money and lose 40K instead of hundreds .

I have lived in several 3rd world countries that looked like a fine kingdom by comparison.

We are fortunate to have @Brandon Turner  in our own backyard.

Although you will want to have an idea as to who you will sell your contract (property) to, it's a seller's market in most of the country.

Many other parts of the country have properties around 10k as well but I'm not sure how much they would rent for.