Yucatan Gringos

Response to our ‘announcement’ of buying property in Mexico has varied, anywhere from excited interest and wanting to know more about it - to outright astonishment that we would even consider such a dangerous ‘investment’. . . not only in terms of misconceptions about the people and Mexico itself (. . crime seems to be a [...]

Exactly - what all is required to make a legal purchase of property in Mexico?. .and to make the move there?. . This is one area of research for us, in particular after finding one simple sentence at sanfelipe.com.mx that states:

“ You must have an FM3 to enter into any binding legal contract in Mexico - for example [...]

I mentioned briefly in a previous post that we have purchased a lot. . .It is beach-front in the town of Chelem. . having decided that we will build rather than try to find a home that suits our needs, or renovate an existing one. . . We are also in the process of buying another [...]