The complete, independent due-diligence system and honest calculators that walk U.S. and Canadian buyers through every step — title, the fideicomiso, the Notario, contracts, and taxes — so you never sign something you don't understand.
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It feels familiar — same listings, same handshakes, an agent who speaks your language. That familiarity is exactly what gets foreign buyers hurt. Foreigners buy through a bank trust in the restricted zone. A government-appointed Notario — not your agent — closes the deal. The costly mistakes are quiet ones: a deposit wired to the wrong hands, land that can never legally be yours, a "can't-miss" yield that evaporates once the real costs show up. By the time you notice, the money's gone.
"Your agent is paid when you buy. I'm not."
Every other person at the table earns a commission when the deal closes. This system is the one independent, buyer-side process built to protect you — even if the right answer is to walk away.
Ejido land is communal land, created by land reform and often marketed as if it were private property. It frequently cannot legally be sold — to a foreigner or anyone — until it has been formally converted to private title. The price looks like the bargain of a lifetime precisely because what you're being shown often can't legally become yours.
Good faith doesn't fix it. A signed "contract" doesn't fix it. Only verified title does. This system shows you exactly how to tell ejido from private title, which document to demand (the escritura), and who confirms it at the public registry — before you wire a single peso.
I earned my real estate license in Maine in 2013 and spent the years after that owning, renovating, and operating properties of my own. In 2018 I moved my focus to Mexico and started doing the same in Progreso and Mérida — buying, building, renovating, and learning how this market truly works, one project at a time.
I don't sell property. No developer or agent pays me a cent. What I sell is the truth about how buying here actually works.
This is the guide I wish someone had handed me in 2018, when I took what felt like a leap into a country whose rules I didn't yet understand. I learned them the hard way, and sometimes the expensive way. You don't have to.
— Ken
The exact due-diligence process I use on my own projects, built into 8 parts and 21 modules. Key modules end with a Confidence Checkpoint — a quick self-test, so you know it landed before you move on.
Every step of a safe purchase, from first offer to final deed, in plain English.
Live, explained closing-cost and rental-reality calculators — adjust every rate to your own quotes. (Toolkit & VIP)
Real-estate terms for the closing table, and 100+ construction terms for the job site — English and Spanish.
Define your purchase, budget the true costs, and score any property or contract objectively.
Know exactly what your attorney, Notario, and CPA each confirm — and what stops a deal cold.
A short self-test in every module, so you know it landed before you move on.
A few of the Mérida & Progreso spaces behind this system — the kind of place you'll buy the right way, and the coast that's waiting.
Here's the whole system, laid out. Nothing hidden — you can see exactly what you're getting before you buy.
Every level is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Prices match checkout exactly.
Not sure? Most buyers choose the Buyer's Toolkit — the system plus the calculators that make your own numbers real.
It costs less than a nice dinner in Playa — and it's the cheapest safeguard you'll ever buy on the biggest purchase you'll make abroad.
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Work through it. If it doesn't make you a sharper, safer buyer, email me within 30 days and I'll refund every peso. The only way I win is if you buy smart — so the risk is mine, not yours.
Sunshine, a slower pace, a life that finally fits. Do the diligence right, and the dream is yours to keep — with none of the regret.
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