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pretend it did not happen. reporting to the authorities will only aggravate the case. people get killed for much less every day. i know that mr AE is dominican but looks like living in the states for so long has softened his edges, deep inside he must have known better than to get involved 
land invasion and theft is the norm here. how do you think that people who do not seem to have 10 pesos to put together always manage to have a house or a land they call theirs? it's a struggle for the government too when they remove barrios to make way for infrastructure developments or because of the fragile location: sometimes they have to compensate not only the owners of the properties but also the renters. in other words, for every house put down they may need to give two houses/apartments. welcome to the pais de milagros.
land invasion and theft is the norm here. how do you think that people who do not seem to have 10 pesos to put together always manage to have a house or a land they call theirs? it's a struggle for the government too when they remove barrios to make way for infrastructure developments or because of the fragile location: sometimes they have to compensate not only the owners of the properties but also the renters. in other words, for every house put down they may need to give two houses/apartments. welcome to the pais de milagros.
I'm sure your maid goes to bed every night praying for your health and well being hahaha. Dominicans in general are scumbags, there are a few decent folks but vast majority are scumbags, spending most of their time thinking how to get something for nothing, and whom to scam and rob. Sad reality.
Sorry to hear about what happened to your husband. Those folks have no regard for law or anything else. It's like the wild wild west. A couple of weeks ago my wife got mugged by two guys on a moto. She is ready to get the heck outta the DR. The level of delinquency and crime has been increasing too fast for our liking. Again, I am very sorry for what happened to Mr. AE. No one deserves that.
Dominicans are not scumbags, they're survivors and opportunists and live in a dog eat dog world living of a couple of pesos a day. Everywhere where there's poverty you have this kind of behavior, if you would have been born poor you'd have been the same. You would have to otherwise you wouldn't survive.
Why you're bitching, you should be happy because of their poverty etc you're finally able to get some popola.
When we bought land here in 2012, we bought as equal owners with another couple. Seemed legit. But we discovered that such an arrangement is completely foreign to the inheritance laws here which derive from Napoleonic Code. We were subsequently advised that if one owner dies, that owner's family inherits the land (first children, then parents, then siblings, then cousins, then uncles and aunts, then second cousins ad infinitum), then a surviving spouse can inherit if there are no other claims, then the State inherits. An abogado said we could partially short-circuit such inheritance guidelines by making handwritten wills and registering them with the court and attaching them to the property deed. However, there was going to be a degree of uncertainty about how such will-probating would go down - a bit risky, perhaps. We elected to pursue other options. But I think it is correct that if an owner dies and family does not make prompt claim to the property, then it will revert to "public" ownership after about six months. If direct family inherits and they are residents, they pay 3% property tax to transfer title, but if they are NOT residents, they pay exhorbitant taxes. So a deceased gringo's non-resident family will be very unlikely to make a claim - it isn't worth it, and besides that, they will never figure out how to do the transfer in the time allowed by law! Naturally, one should consult a reputable abogado before relying on this non-abogado's pronouncements
Got the bleeding under control by bedtime, was bad because he takes daily aspirin. Only one of the head cuts was stubborn, but doesn’t need stitches. Because of where we live, I always have a fully stocked first aid kit, and took care of it myself.
The guy caught hell from an assortment of neighbors, but he’s a bad seed from a bad family. Brother in jail for 20 years for murdering their cousin. Many hoped we’d get him arrested to get rid of him. We’re hearing about all his misdeeds but we are getting ready to go home and won’t take this further.
Owner died at least 6 years ago, and his son was here recently measuring the land, so for the life of me I can’t imagine what they think will happen to their little roped off plots.
Yes, he sometimes forgets this isn’t the DR he grew up in. That was another era. His birthday is in 4 days, I’m glad he’s alive to celebrate this milestone, things could have gone much differently
The guy caught hell from an assortment of neighbors, but he’s a bad seed from a bad family. Brother in jail for 20 years for murdering their cousin. Many hoped we’d get him arrested to get rid of him. We’re hearing about all his misdeeds but we are getting ready to go home and won’t take this further.
Owner died at least 6 years ago, and his son was here recently measuring the land, so for the life of me I can’t imagine what they think will happen to their little roped off plots.
Yes, he sometimes forgets this isn’t the DR he grew up in. That was another era. His birthday is in 4 days, I’m glad he’s alive to celebrate this milestone, things could have gone much differently
Happens everywhere. My neighbour just across the street lost his wife last year. He has a nice house with water frontage. Less than a week after he buried her, strangers were knocking on his door asking him if he was selling his house. The OP’s original post more or less demonstrated the necessity of having a deslinde deed if you own DR property. Looked at a really nice two bed condo in Luperon harbour a few years ago. No deslinde so I walked away.
AE... he can stop the aspirin any time....
I did it for years and have thin blood to this day....
of course the wine helps... Naturopath me
haha
bleed like a stuck pig - as they say
I did it for years and have thin blood to this day....
of course the wine helps... Naturopath me
haha
bleed like a stuck pig - as they say
I've never travelled to a developing country that didn't have these exact
same problems.
re: Scumbags - if you live in a place where there are lots of gringoes, you live in a place with a reputation for there being an over-abundance of cash and opportunity. This in turn, may attract a certain scumbag-like element. However, my neighbors and I relate to one another almost like family. I have some trashy doomed-to-another-couple-of-generations-of-poverty neighbors, some could-have-been-well-to-do-but-can't-quit-drinking neighborsand some paragon-of-virtue neighbors. I love them all!
It would be foolish to say that another person's personality is all in my mind, but it is also true that the vast majority of people are basically decent, they can sense a lot about your atitude toward them through non-verbal clues, and if you greet them with honest joy, they tend to respond in that way. Try it.
It would be foolish to say that another person's personality is all in my mind, but it is also true that the vast majority of people are basically decent, they can sense a lot about your atitude toward them through non-verbal clues, and if you greet them with honest joy, they tend to respond in that way. Try it.
Let me get this straight - the deceased owner was a lesbian ? Because that is the only way I know the surviving wife could be a widower.
Just teasin'
I had a friend who got sucker punched coming out of a bar. At the time he was a young man. Went to bed thinking nothing of it but was awoken the next day and couldn't recognize his own family. Severe brain swelling, brain operation and then taking anti-seizure medicine the rest of his life.
After seeing his big scar we all called him zipper-head
I am reaching that point myself - The violence and scams DR and legal targeting of extranjeros makes the island uninviting. Not to mention the constant cambios de la ley
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