I'm an entrepreneur who fell for Mexico the same way you probably did — on vacation — and then found out the hard way what the brochure leaves out.
Over my career I've built, owned, operated, and sold businesses in agriculture, construction, excavation, trucking, drainage, composting, gravel extraction, flooring, cabinetry, and real estate. My education came less from classrooms and more from decades of solving problems, managing risk, making mistakes, and building systems that had to work in the real world.
My wife and I have been coming to the Riviera Maya since 2008. In 2014 we rented a house for four months instead of doing the resort — and that changed everything. We followed the path the book maps: we vacationed, then rented, then bought, then built. Three properties so far. A fourth — a custom home in Akumal — under construction now, managed from thousands of kilometers away. I split my time between Akumal, Quintana Roo, and Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Along the way I became a property owner, builder, landlord, resident, and student of how things actually work on the ground here: banking, residency, utilities, insurance, taxes, contractors, staffing, rentals — and the cleanup when any of them goes sideways.
I don't sell real estate, I don't represent buyers or sellers, and I don't provide legal, tax, or immigration advice — there are licensed professionals for that, and I'll be the first to tell you to hire them. What I provide is perspective: the kind you can only get from someone who has already traveled the road.