Terms of Use | Mexico Shores

Last updated: October 20, 2026.

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Mexico Shores at https://mexicoshores.com, including its guides, pages, images and contact features. They are written in plain language so that you can understand what you are agreeing to. Please read them together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclosure page.

Acceptance of these terms

By visiting, reading or otherwise using Mexico Shores, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the site. In these terms, Mexico Shores, we, us and our refer to the website and to the person or people who own and operate it, and you means anyone who visits or uses the site. The Privacy Policy explains what information the site handles and why, and the Disclosure page explains how the site is funded and how coverage decisions are made. Those pages are part of the rules for using the site, and they should be read alongside these terms. If they seem to conflict, the Privacy Policy controls questions about personal information, the Disclosure page controls questions about commercial relationships, and these terms control everything else. Mexico Shores is written for adults, so if you are under the age of majority where you live, please use the site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. If you use the site on behalf of a business or other organization, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these terms for it, and these terms then apply to that organization as well as to you.

What Mexico Shores provides

Mexico Shores is a free informational website for people researching a move to Mexico, everyday life or retirement there, and buying, renting, selling or inheriting property in Mexico. Its guides address, or are planned to address, subjects such as cost of living, choosing a city, safety, retirement, residency visas, fideicomiso bank trusts, ejido land, property and capital gains taxes, title insurance, escrow, notarios, timeshares, financing and regional real estate markets. The site publishes general information and explanations, and it doesn’t sell property, immigration services, legal services, tax services, insurance, loans or any other product or service. Mexico Shores is not a real estate agent, broker, notary, lender, escrow agent, immigration consultant, relocation company or intermediary, and it doesn’t take part in any transaction you make. There are no user accounts, subscriptions, paid features or purchases on the site. Because the site is free, we may add, change, reorganize, update or remove guides, pages, features or the entire site at any time, with or without notice. We don’t promise that the site or any page will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, fast or free of errors. The site may be unavailable or behave unexpectedly because of maintenance, code changes, problems with hosting or network providers, attacks, or other events outside our reasonable control. We have no obligation to keep any particular guide online, to keep earlier versions of a guide, or to tell you individually when a guide changes.

Acceptable use

You may use Mexico Shores for your own personal, non-commercial research and for sharing links to its pages with others. You agree to use the site lawfully and in a way that doesn’t harm the site, its operators or other readers. In particular, you agree to follow these rules.

Don’t use the site in a way that violates any applicable law or regulation or infringes the rights of anyone else.
Don’t try to gain unauthorized access to the site, its hosting, its source code repository, its contact system, or any account or system connected to them.
Don’t interfere with or disrupt the site, for example by introducing malware, flooding it with traffic, probing it for vulnerabilities without permission, or attempting to bypass Cloudflare Turnstile or other security measures.
Don’t use bots, scrapers, crawlers or other automated tools to copy substantial parts of the site, to republish it, to build a competing product, or to compile its content for training or improving machine learning models, unless you have our written permission.
Ordinary search engine indexing and assistive technologies used by readers with disabilities are welcome and aren’t restricted by the previous rule.
Don’t use the contact form or email address to send spam, bulk or automated messages, harassment, threats, malicious links, malware or unlawful content.
Don’t impersonate another person or organization, or misrepresent your connection with anyone, when you contact us.
Don’t frame or mirror the site, or present its content in a way that suggests Mexico Shores endorses you, your business, your property listing or your product.
Don’t present the site’s content to others as legal, immigration, tax, financial or real estate advice, or as the opinion of a licensed professional.

If you use the site in breach of these rules, we may take the steps described below under Restriction or termination of access. You may also be responsible for harm your conduct causes, as described below under Indemnification.

Intellectual property and permitted reuse

Unless a page says otherwise, the text, guides, checklists, page design, layout, graphics, images and other materials on Mexico Shores are owned by or licensed to the site’s operator and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws to the extent those laws apply. The Mexico Shores name and any logo or visual identity used on the site identify the site, and you may not use them in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation without permission. Some material on the site, such as quotations from laws, government publications, official forms or other sources, belongs to its respective owners, and their rights aren’t affected by these terms.

You are welcome to do the following without asking.

You may link to any page on Mexico Shores.
You may quote brief passages for commentary, discussion, reporting or research, provided you credit Mexico Shores and link to the original page where practical.
You may print or save a copy of a page for your own personal, non-commercial reference, for example to bring to a meeting with your notario or attorney.

Unless you have written permission, you may not republish whole guides or substantial portions of them, copy the site’s images, sell or license the content, remove copyright or attribution notices, or create a product or website built from the site’s content. All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved. Nothing in these terms limits uses that the law allows without permission, such as fair use, fair dealing or other statutory exceptions.

If you believe that something on Mexico Shores infringes your copyright or another right, please contact us through the Contact page or at hello@mexicoshores.com. To help us review the concern, please describe the work or right involved, give the address of the page on Mexico Shores where the material appears, and include your contact details. Please also state that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized and that the information in your inquiry is accurate. If you are writing on behalf of a rights holder, please say so and explain your authority to act for them. We review good-faith inquiries and may remove, change or credit material where we consider it appropriate, but sending an inquiry doesn’t guarantee a particular outcome. This contact route is a general inquiry channel, and Mexico Shores doesn’t claim to have a registered copyright agent.

Messages and the absence of user content features

Mexico Shores has no comments, forums, reader reviews, user profiles, accounts, uploads or other features for publishing user content. The only way readers can send anything to the site is by private message through the contact form or by email. Messages aren’t published on the site, and the site has no mechanism for posting them. You are responsible for what you send, and you agree that your message will be lawful, accurate to the best of your knowledge, and respectful of other people’s rights. Please don’t send passport numbers, financial statements, property deeds, identification documents or other sensitive personal documents, because the site doesn’t need them and can’t review them. Sending a message doesn’t create a professional, client, advisory or confidential relationship, and replies can’t provide individual legal, immigration, tax, financial or real estate advice. We read suggestions, corrections and questions, but we have no obligation to reply, to cover a suggested place or service, to make a change, or to credit the person who wrote in. If you send a suggestion, correction, idea or other feedback, you allow us to use, adapt and act on it to operate and improve Mexico Shores without any obligation to pay or credit you. That permission covers the idea or information in your feedback, and any personal information in your message is handled as described in the Privacy Policy. Suggestions from businesses are considered only on their usefulness to readers, and no one can pay for coverage, a ranking or a review, as explained on the Disclosure page.

No professional advice

Everything on Mexico Shores is general information for research and education. Nothing on the site is legal, immigration, tax, accounting, financial, investment, lending, insurance, real estate brokerage, medical or personal security advice. Reading the site, relying on it or contacting us doesn’t create an attorney-client, notary-client, adviser-client, broker-client or any other professional relationship. The site’s writer is not a lawyer, notario, tax adviser, immigration consultant, real estate agent or financial adviser, and nothing on the site has been reviewed or approved by such a professional unless a page clearly says so. Whether something applies to you depends on facts the site can’t know, including your citizenship, residency, income, savings, age, family, health, the specific property, the state and municipality where it sits, the consulate you use, and the rules in force on the date you act.

Moving to Mexico and dealing with Mexican property involve specific risks that you should take seriously.

Immigration and residency requirements, including income and savings thresholds, required documents, fees and appointment practices, change from time to time and can differ from one Mexican consulate to another.
Under Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, foreigners can’t hold direct title to land in the restricted zone along Mexico’s borders and coastlines, so foreign buyers there usually hold residential property through a fideicomiso bank trust or a Mexican company, each with its own costs, rules and obligations.
Ejido and communal land is subject to special rules, and buying it without the proper legal conversion, documentation and registration can leave a buyer without valid ownership.
Title defects, unpaid liens or taxes, fraudulent sellers, forged documents, unregistered sales, unfinished pre-construction developments, and unlicensed or dishonest intermediaries can cause the loss of deposits, purchase money or the property itself.
Tax consequences can arise in both Mexico and the United States, including on capital gains, property tax, inheritance, rental income and timeshare sales, and US citizens and residents generally remain subject to US tax and reporting rules on their worldwide income and foreign assets.
Mortgage and developer financing, currency exchange, insurance coverage, rental income and property values are uncertain, and you can lose money.
Personal safety conditions vary widely between and within states and cities, and they can change quickly.
Timeshare exit, resale and rental offers are a common source of scams, especially offers that ask for upfront fees, taxes or closing costs before anything has been sold.

Before you make any decision, confirm the details with people who are qualified and accountable for advice about your situation. Depending on the question, that may include a Mexican notario público, a licensed Mexican attorney, a qualified cross-border tax professional, a licensed or registered real estate professional, the Mexican consulate where you will apply, Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), and official government sources. For safety, check the current US State Department travel advisories and follow the guidance of local authorities. For timeshare offers or any other offer that seems suspicious, check with official consumer protection agencies before paying anything. You are solely responsible for your decisions and for evaluating any information before you rely on it.

Disclaimer of warranties

Mexico Shores is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the site’s owners, operators and contributors disclaim all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, about the site and its content. That includes any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, reliability or timeliness. We don’t warrant that the information on the site is correct, complete, current or suitable for your purposes, or that any requirement, threshold, price, fee, tax rate, exchange rate or advisory it mentions is still in effect. We don’t warrant that following a guide will produce any particular result, such as an approved visa, a valid title, a successful sale or a lower cost of living. We don’t warrant that the site, its links or its contact form will work without interruption or errors, or that the site or the files it serves are free of viruses or other harmful components. Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain warranties to be excluded, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you. Where a warranty can’t be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to the minimum extent and duration the law requires. Nothing in this section affects any statutory right you have that can’t be waived or limited by agreement.

Accuracy, sources and corrections

Mexico Shores is research-based, and its guides are prepared from official sources, laws, government publications and market data rather than from first-hand transactions, product testing or site visits. We try to explain information carefully and to say when a rule, figure or practice is uncertain or likely to change, but even careful research can contain mistakes or fall out of date. Laws, consular practices, financial thresholds, tax rules, prices, exchange rates and safety conditions can change after a guide is written, and a guide may not reflect the newest change. Dates and figures on a page reflect the information available when it was researched or last updated, so check them against the current official source before you rely on them. If you think something is wrong or out of date, please tell us through the Contact page, including the page address and, if possible, where you saw the newer information. Reported errors are checked against the official or primary source, and the page is updated when an error is confirmed. Correcting or updating a page isn’t an admission that the earlier version caused any loss or that any obligation to you exists.

Editorial personas and generated portraits

The writer credited on Mexico Shores, Laura Bennett, is an editorial persona rather than an identified, verifiable individual, and her portrait is a generated image rather than a photograph of a real person. The biography on the author page, including its personal history and work experience, describes the voice and perspective of the writing. That background isn’t a professional credential, license, qualification or proof of first-hand experience, and it isn’t evidence that any recommendation, explanation or conclusion on the site is correct. The biography itself doesn’t point this out, which is why it is disclosed here. No portrait on the site shows a real reviewer, agent, adviser, customer or resident. Please judge each guide by its reasoning and by the official sources it cites, and check those sources yourself. If the site’s writers or the way they are presented change, these terms will be updated.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Mexico Shores and its owners, operators, writers, editors, contributors, contractors and anyone acting on their behalf won’t be liable for any loss or damage arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the site. The same applies to loss or damage arising from your reliance on anything published on the site or said in reply to a message. That includes, to the same extent, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary and punitive damages. It also includes losses such as lost money, deposits, profits or savings, lost property, failed or delayed purchases or sales, denied or delayed visas or residency, tax assessments, penalties or interest, financing or currency losses, travel costs, and lost data or time. It also includes, to the same extent, personal injury or property damage connected with travel, relocation, housing or safety decisions you make. It also includes loss or damage caused by third parties, including sellers, developers, agents, brokers, notaries, attorneys, lenders, insurers, relocation services, timeshare companies, scammers, government agencies, hosting providers and the operators of linked websites. These limits apply whatever the legal theory, whether contract, tort including negligence, strict liability, statute or otherwise, and even if we were told that a loss was possible. Where applicable law doesn’t allow liability to be fully excluded, the liability of Mexico Shores and the people listed above is limited to the minimum extent the law permits. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that can’t be excluded or limited under applicable law, which in some places includes liability for fraud, willful or intentional misconduct, gross negligence, violations of law, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer protection laws that can’t be waived by agreement. These limits reflect that Mexico Shores is a free informational website, but they don’t mean that no one can ever be held responsible, and they apply only as far as the law permits.

Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Mexico Shores and its owners, operators, writers, editors, contributors and contractors against claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, described in this section. This obligation covers claims arising from your misuse of the site or your breach of these terms. It covers claims arising from your violation of any law or of the rights of another person, including intellectual property and privacy rights. It covers claims arising from any message, material or information you send us that is unlawful, misleading or infringing. It also covers claims arising from your republication, reuse or presentation of site content in breach of these terms, including presenting it to others as professional advice. This obligation doesn’t apply to the extent a claim is caused by our own breach of these terms or our own unlawful conduct, and it doesn’t apply where applicable law, including consumer protection law, doesn’t allow it. If a claim covered by this section arises, we may choose to control the defense, and you agree to cooperate reasonably with that defense.

Third-party links, businesses and services

Guides link to government agencies, consulates, official registries, laws, news sources, businesses and other websites so that you can check information at its source. Those websites and services are operated by others, and Mexico Shores doesn’t control them and isn’t responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security, privacy practices or terms. A link isn’t an endorsement, and a linked page can change, move, break or redirect after a guide is published. Mentioning a town, neighborhood, business, service, app, lender, insurer, developer, agent, notary or product isn’t an endorsement or a guarantee of its quality, legality, licensing, financial soundness, safety or suitability for you. Any dealings, contracts or transactions you have with a third party, including deposits, fees, purchases, rentals, loans, insurance policies and service agreements, are solely between you and that party. Before paying anyone or signing anything, verify the party’s identity, licensing or registration where required, contract terms, fees and reputation through independent and official sources. If a contract is in Spanish and you don’t read Spanish fluently, get a qualified translation and professional review before signing. To the extent permitted by law, Mexico Shores isn’t responsible for any loss or damage caused by a third party’s products, services, advice, conduct, insolvency, website or failure to perform. When you visit a linked website, its own terms and privacy policy apply, and you should review them.

Commercial relationships

Mexico Shores doesn’t display advertising, doesn’t participate in any affiliate program, isn’t an Amazon Associate, and doesn’t accept sponsorships, paid placements, free products or other compensation for coverage. Links on the site don’t earn a commission, and no business can pay for coverage, a ranking, a review or a favorable description. The Disclosure page explains these points in more detail and describes how coverage is chosen. If a paid or material relationship is ever added, the Disclosure page will be updated and affected pages will disclose the relationship clearly near the relevant content.

Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains what information Mexico Shores handles, including technical request data processed by Cloudflare, the theme preference saved in your browser, and the details you send through the contact form or by email. By using the site, you acknowledge that information will be handled as described there. The site doesn’t use analytics, advertising cookies or tracking, and it doesn’t sell personal information.

Restriction or termination of access

We may restrict, suspend or block access to all or part of Mexico Shores for any person, device, network or location if we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect the site, its readers or its operators, to stop misuse, to comply with law, or to respond to a security threat. This can happen through Cloudflare security tools, through Turnstile challenges on the contact form, or by blocking or disregarding messages from senders who abuse the contact routes. We aim to act proportionately, but we aren’t required to give advance notice before taking protective steps. We may also discontinue the site or any feature at any time. If your access is restricted or the site is discontinued, the sections of these terms that by their nature should continue, including those on intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, severability and waiver, continue to apply to past use.

Governing law and your mandatory rights

These terms don’t select a governing law, a particular court or a forum for disputes. Which law applies to a question about these terms or the site, and where any dispute may be heard, will be determined under applicable law, including applicable conflict-of-laws rules. If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms takes away the protection of mandatory laws of the place where you live that can’t be changed by agreement.

Resolving concerns

These terms don’t require arbitration, don’t contain a class action waiver, and don’t set any special dispute procedure. If you have a concern about the site, please contact us first at hello@mexicoshores.com or through the Contact page, describe the issue and the page involved, and give us a reasonable opportunity to look into it. Many concerns, such as an error in a guide or a question about how your message was handled, can be resolved quickly that way. Contacting us first is a request rather than a condition, and it doesn’t waive or delay any right you have to contact a regulator or to pursue a remedy available under applicable law.

Severability

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and limited or modified only as much as necessary to make it enforceable. The remaining provisions remain in full force and effect, and the invalidity of a provision in one jurisdiction doesn’t affect its validity in any other.

No waiver

If we don’t enforce a provision of these terms right away, or don’t enforce it in a particular case, that doesn’t waive our right to enforce it later or in other cases. A waiver of any provision is effective only if it is made in writing, and it applies only to the specific situation it describes.

Entire agreement

These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclosure page, are the entire agreement between you and Mexico Shores about your use of the site. They replace any earlier versions of these terms and any prior understandings about the same subject. Nothing said in an email reply or elsewhere on the site changes these terms unless the site’s operator clearly states in writing that it does. This section doesn’t exclude any rights or protections that applicable law gives you and that can’t be excluded by agreement.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these terms. We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under these terms, in whole or in part, including in connection with a transfer of the ownership or operation of the site, to the extent permitted by applicable law. A transfer doesn’t reduce rights you have under applicable law, and the Privacy Policy describes how personal information would be handled in a transfer.

Events outside reasonable control

We aren’t responsible for any delay or failure to provide the site, update content, receive or answer messages, or meet any obligation under these terms when it is caused by events outside our reasonable control. Such events include outages or failures of hosting, network, email or security providers, internet disruptions, cyberattacks, power failures, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters, epidemics, war, civil unrest, labor disputes and government action. They also include sudden changes to laws, regulations, fees or official practices in Mexico, the United States or elsewhere that make published information outdated before it can be reviewed. This section applies to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the site, its providers or the law. The date at the top of this page shows when the terms were last updated, and revised terms apply from the time they are posted unless they say otherwise. Because the site has no accounts or mailing list, changes are announced by updating this page rather than by individual notice. Where a change is significant, we may also summarize it on this page. If you keep using the site after a change is posted, you accept the updated terms, so please check this page from time to time. A change doesn’t apply retroactively to a dispute that arose before the change was posted, except where the law allows. Where applicable law requires a different form of notice or consent for a change, that requirement will be followed.

Contact

You can reach Mexico Shores by email at hello@mexicoshores.com or through the form on the Contact page. The contact form asks for your name, email address, a subject and your message, and it is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile to reduce spam. Messages from the form and emails sent to hello@mexicoshores.com are forwarded through Cloudflare Email Routing to the operator’s private inbox. Both routes were configured and verified when the site was set up. No email system is perfectly reliable, so a message can occasionally be delayed, filtered or lost. No response time is promised, and not every message can receive a reply. If you don’t hear back about something that matters, you may try the other contact route. Replies can’t provide individual legal, immigration, tax, financial or real estate advice.