I dont know if my last post made it. If you have an extra 2 to 5 thousand for the police, depending how successful you are you may be Ok. If you are competing against locals you may want to take out some life insurance. Making the Dog Dance is all that it is about. Remember if your extranjo you have no rights reguardless of whay INM says. It just depends who you have problems with. In the end you cannot win and paying off the Ministerio is just part of living in a lawless state. The #1rule for people thinking about moving to Mexico is rent for two years and do not leave. You will be more than educated in that time you will either run like a naked man on fire or pay the extra fees associated. If your a couple make sure your tight as the attorneys will approach the women and say do you wany everything? for a fee your husband will dissappear or he will be charges with a crime and forced to leave the state. If money is no object then you will soon find that it is an object of others fancy. Go to Costa Rica where the most intelligent of entire latin america live. First look around and see so many businesses that open up and in a few years their places look like their twenty years old. good luck