The Lot

Here's a Google Earth image of the property. It was apparently taken a couple years ago as there's at least one building not shown. The lot is 10 blocks up from the beach, each short block being 40 meters wide with a 10m road allotment between blocks. The top corner (SE) is at about 117' in elevation while the lower corner is about 103 ft. On Google earth or Maps, you can look at it pretty well. Zoom in on 15 deg 49' 54" N and 97 deg, 2' 24.6" W with Google earth and you can see the local terrain and the view of the pacific

There's a slapped-together local family's place next door, and a Mexico City family's vacation place across the street, which is fairly new higher-end across the street to the east. That street is quite steep and unpaved (like them all), and will need work to make it drivable to the lower lots someday. The road to the South is in pretty good shape, and is the main route to the beach for a number of places further east and south. The road below on the north is not at all usable, though maybe some day it will be, as it lines up nicely with the road out to the highway to the east and with the road up from the beach below. Not on the Google image is a odd home to the SE across the street, which is a group of fiberglass pods, suspended together up one story on steel columns. People call it "Space Camp".

The property is mostly empty, with a lot of goat droppings from the former use. There's electricity on the bottom of the lot and water in the street, such as it is. (The water is pumped straight out of the river and runs a few hours a few times a week, so you need your own reservoir and pump.)
The taxes are low, and the title is in my Mexican lawyer's name. There's views to the ocean, at least from a story or two up, and to the mountains to the north and east. There are a bunch of nicer 'gringo' places to the south and east. Someday it will be wonderful, right?



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