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“Cashing In on a Second Home in Mexico” is a must read…

By Tom Kelly and Mitch Creekmore

Mexico has it all. From lush and tropical mountainous municipalities perched on brilliant bays, to miles of white sand beaches merging into iridescent azure water, to quaint European-style houses lining cobblestone streets in picturesque villages and towns, our Spanish-speaking neighbor to the south is abundantly rich in geographic and natural diversification.
Mexico is a country that provides a panorama of stunningly beautiful landscapes and indigenous culture regionally seasoned by its history and native ancestry. Pyramids, volcanoes, caves, mountains, ancient ruins, waterfalls and underground springs provide a spectacular playground for those wishing to explore and experience its natural array of beauty. Hundreds of species of birds, animals, plants and flowers help create the majestic
contrasts that make Mexico so incredibly appealing. Dry and arid desert terrain transcend to the humid jungle at opposite ends of the country, providing a definite appeal to certain types of inhabitants. These locales have also become the destinations for many a foreigner seeking a different clime and setting in
which to reside or vacation. It is merely a question of what you like and where you want to be. Mexico is a country that offers something for everyone.

Forty-three percent of the land area of Mexico fronts on water. The coastlines vary in their topography and geographic presentation as a result of the terrain that lines the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Cortes1, the Bay of Banderas, the Mexican Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Until the days of paved roads and aircraft, Mexico was not so much a united country as a loose federation
of regions virtually isolated from one another by a rugged geography. In some areas, the mountain ranges were so impenetrable that neighboring towns were practically ignorant of each other’s existence. Today modern communication systems leap mountains and find remote villages. Still, unifying characteristics in so large and varied a country will never be easy to find.
The topography along the Mexican Pacific Coast is remarkably similar to the shoreline from San Diego to Portland. The 1,100-mile stretch from Mazatlán to the Tehuantepec Isthmus is a changing landscape of shallow bays, sandy beaches and cliffs that plunge into the sea. The real difference lies in the cli-
mate: While the ocean in Portland could never be described as inviting and the winters are wet and cold, the sun shines upon the balmy Mexican Pacific nine days out of 10, year-round. Because tourism is viewed by the Mexican government as an obvious road to prosperity and a vital generator of the country’s gross domestic product, the creation and expansion of luxury
vacation resorts along the Pacific Coast as well as along other Mexican shorelines have become a major investment strategy. The obvious potential for foreign capital to flow south of the border, however, remained practically unexploited until very recently. Americans and Canadians, obvious urbanites to be sure, view tropical beaches as places of leisure and relaxation, seldom remembering that until a few decades ago the tropics—especially backwater areas like Acapulco—were synonymous with endemic disease and mortality rates. Today, the tourist advertisements of luxuriously grand and appointed hotels lining Mexico’s beaches belie the fact that until the 1950s, these
beautiful coasts were deserted, except for a few small villages whose only interest in the sea was as a reliable source of food. It wasn’t until 1970 that a paved road stretching the length of the Baja peninsula’s rugged terrain was finished.

Most of Baja California remains untouched and unknown to man, like some areas of the Yucatan Peninsula and most of the mountain regions of the Sierra Madres. Yet the various climates and geographical environs coupled with the proximity of the sea have combined to create a strange but surprisingly
beautiful landscape. Increasingly larger amounts of money are being invested to develop the coastlines of Mexico where fine sand, balmy waters and abundant sea species are regarded as self-evident reasons to turn these areas into the 50-yard line for new tourist and investment activity. Economic ambitions are being balanced against the ecology of Mexico’s abstractly beautiful and unique environment creating a vast playground and investment opportunity for all of North America.

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