Expanishon: Mexico City

  • CDMX Part 5: The Cross Border Investment Experience

    Following the debacle with MexLend I decided to go forward with Cross Border Investment. Like MexLend they’re not the lender itself but rather a broker: they have a number of private lenders on file to…

  • CDMX Part 4: Financing

    To recap: I decided on a 1BD apartment in the Reforma area for $4,200,000 MXP, or about $211,000 USD. I do well for myself but I’m not rich by any means, so this kind of…

  • CDMX Part 3: Hunting

    Getting Started I’m sometimes asked how one gets started with viewing/touring properties in a foreign country. It really is (or can be) similar to finding property in the US: Go to a real estate aggregation…

  • CDMX Part 2: Locations

    Donde? Mexico City is big. Really big. If you don’t know what you’re looking for it can be overwhelming to search for properties. Luckily after digging around a bit, it’s easy to narrow your search…

  • CDMX Part 1: Origins

    My first trip to Mexico City as an adult was in November 2019 for a cryptocurrency conference. I won’t say I “fell in love” with the city or anything so dramatic, but I did have…