I just realized from a thread that was just closed that a poster came down here - intent on living on perhaps $600 a month - and within a year, says that he has "sold" over $700,000 in real estate. Say it ain't so!!
I have heard so many horror stories here about real estate - about places that were sold with false titles, with no titles, built with no titles....of places that were left for 6 months and not just ransacked but STRIPPED -- of plumbing, fixtures, you name it....
So please take the sensible advice offered here - rent first if you can, make sure that you know the area, the broker, the lawyer and have good enough Spanish on your own to read some of the contracts.
Even for a furnished rental, my landlady here wanted me to sign a lease making me responsible for the taxes. When I said, no way, they produced another lease within 10 minutes... odd that they had it ready.
But I grew up in NYC, watching those three card monty games on the sidewalks, for most of you... cuidase
annie
I have heard so many horror stories here about real estate - about places that were sold with false titles, with no titles, built with no titles....of places that were left for 6 months and not just ransacked but STRIPPED -- of plumbing, fixtures, you name it....
So please take the sensible advice offered here - rent first if you can, make sure that you know the area, the broker, the lawyer and have good enough Spanish on your own to read some of the contracts.
Even for a furnished rental, my landlady here wanted me to sign a lease making me responsible for the taxes. When I said, no way, they produced another lease within 10 minutes... odd that they had it ready.
But I grew up in NYC, watching those three card monty games on the sidewalks, for most of you... cuidase
annie