The best time to invest in Mexico is now Article Published: 13:46 25/01/2010 Article Classification: Flamingo Lakes Resort Merida
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I just spent three days in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, meeting with 150 very sharp folks from around the world, and the consensus is in… the best time for Mexico is now.

Believe me, this wasn’t the easiest Mexico seminar I’ve ever attended. Every time we took a break from our presentations at the beautiful Fiesta Americana hotel, we could see the sun shining down on the incredibly blue water of the Bay of Banderas and the white-sand beach just a few meters away. Resisting the urge to skip a session or presentation and jump in the ocean was a challenge.

But it was worth it. Today I’m lying on that same beach in the shade of a palm tree with nothing to do but wait for my flight back home and think about everything we saw and heard at one of the most productive seminars I’ve ever attended on all the opportunities Mexico offers right now.

Those who are still around the hotel with me seem to agree. One attendee tells me that she was so excited before she came to Puerto Vallarta that she could hardly stand it… and now she’s even more excited, if that’s possible.

Another attendee tells me that he’d been thrown a lifeline at the conference. He says that before coming to the conference, he really couldn’t see a way out of the dilemma of rising taxes and health care costs that waited for him back in the States. Now, he says, he can see light at the end of the tunnel, and it seems to be shining right here in Puerto Vallarta.

The post-conference real estate tours are out and about right now, so I don’t know how many of our attendees will find the bargains they’re looking for and choose to settle right here by the bay. I know the bargains are out there – Mexico is definitely a buyer’s market right now. And I know that many of our attendees made plans even before the seminar was over to explore some of the other promising areas of Mexico we heard about, like Huatulco, Ajijic, San Miguel de Allende, Merida, and so many more.

And their timing is perfect. Thanks to a global economic slow down and seemingly endless negative press coverage in the U.S., Mexico is the best bargain it’s been in a decade.

In a way, I’m glad the U.S. media concentrates only on the bad news from Mexico… if their coverage was fair and balanced, we’d be swamped by people coming down for the incredible weather, low health care costs and taxes, and yes… the safety and security that the vast majority of the country enjoys.

Which would also mean that the real estate deals wouldn’t be nearly as good as they are right now.

If the attendees at our Live & Invest in Mexico conference didn’t know that before hand, they certainly know it now thanks to the insights we got from the many experts and expats we heard from here in Puerto Vallarta. There is nothing like first-hand, on-the-ground information and experience to give you a real sense of what’s available right here in Mexico at this very moment… and we got it in spades at this conference.

Just a few more hours before my flight, so I’m going to soak up as much Puerto Vallarta as I can while I’m here. But I know I’ll be back… since I live and work in Mexico, I’ll be this way again, and I’m anxious to find out how many of our attendees will be fellow expats by then, living the good life south of the border with me.

Because the best time for Mexico is now, and the best way to find out is from the people who are living the life themselves… like the many people we just heard from here at the Live & Invest in Mexico conference. You can hear for yourself exactly what they said, here.

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