Purchase price: $118,000 Cash invested: $118,000 Tried to buy a place during the pandemic in NY but was getting outbid like crazy over 100k, so I was lucky enough to buy a condo in tulum mexico and do a short term rental. 1 bed, 1 bath, with community pol, 15 minutes away from the beach and 15 minutes away from the city.

The local economy is anchored by institutions such as the University of New Mexico (UNM), Sandia National Laboratories, and Kirtland Air Force Base.

To be honest, I´m in the Maintenance & Construction for corporate businesses for some US companies in Mexico and we do some Real Estate down here also, but it´s way much different than the US, so I have much to learn from a lot of people around here and as @Julio Gonzalez, I think this is pretty much the right pad and place to start and to break my fears to start all over again from scratchAlso, I´ld like to hear more from @Justin Brickman why he voted for his city, pros and cons, it will help to read from a local...As I said before, thank you all guys for taking the time to write in this post and share some experienceDo you plan to owner occupy. $40k will not get you a non owner occupied San Diego property unless you find some unlikely alternate financing.

Is there a city that's better than both of these in Ohio?

Purchase price: $144,900 Cash invested: $13,000 This is a charming 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home in Bossier City, LA.

Also what does the city say is the assessed value of the property on your taxes (it will be different than the appraised value, but should give you an idea).

Lancaster city limits short term rentals to only certain zones of the city so definitely look at the city website for that information.

Mexicos second largest revenue source are wired funds from the U.S. by individuals.  

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Apparently now those investments are less interesting to city hall.