My husband and I have just bought a house in La Mision. We plan someday to move there, but not right away. For now, I expect we will be spending long weekends, and maybe up to a week or so there. Maybe in the next few months, we may spend a month or more at a time. We will need to do some work on the house that we bought, so it's hard to know how much time we will spend there, but I'm thinking that it would be better to be there while the work is being done.

My question is--while we are not really moving yet, what kind of visa do we need?

If you have property in Mexico you need to have an FM-3 for sure no matter how much time you spend there.

Are you absolutely sure about that?!

YES!!

Here is a good info site you might want to look at and save?
http://www.ajijiclaw.com
We have lived in San Felipe for almost 9 years. We are on our second FM-3 It is best to get it at a time you will likliy always be in Baja so you can be available each year to renew it.