Friday September 11, 2009
Only in Mexico! The day started out stellar! Liverpool came to my house to deliver Baby at 11am. Wow, she looks wonderful, her right mirror was a little loose but I fixed that right up with an allen key, however they forgot one little minor thing……………the keys! They told me that they would come back with them but they took longer than they said they would and we needed to go out. With my Spanish dictionary I wrote them a note and taped it to the gate asking them to put the keys in the mail box. I received 3 phone calls while we were out the third one was in English and I explained to them that I had to go out and to please put the keys in the mailbox.
The place we had to go was the start of a new adventure in Real Estate! We went to the construction site of La Fronda, a new development across the highway from the new Wal-Mart that they are building in Nuevo that we are the sole realtors for. It is a huge development of houses in a gated community where you can either buy a house already built or you can buy the land and build yourself. It will have the condo feel where there will be restrictions on the house, but wow, what an opportunity to buy in paradise. You guys are going to get tired of us letting you know of good deals, if you or someone you know is looking to retire here please let them know about us, we need to money! After a look at the plans and some updates we took off to Nuevo Vallarta to Starbucks to have a very informal meeting (this is actually the only kind of meeting there is) with 5 other people, of course with John and Christie (John is feeling much better now, he had dengue fever). We all are working with Elements Realty and John and Christie had some minor business to discuss. One was keeping the office open on the beach street which we are with each couple working 2 days a week from 9-2 in the office. We are just mainly there to greet people and introduce ourselves and show them listings that they may want to look at if they are looking for real estate. Our days are Tuesday’s and Thursdays and I think we will split up working Saturdays. The good news is we found out that Wal-Mart is opening at the end of the month. We might have a kiosk at the front of the store, I am told there will be an entrance where there will be lots of stores and businesses you have to walk by before you actually get into Wal-Mart.
I received a call from Telmex while we were at Starbucks asking if we had internet yet, I said no, and they said “No……..Are you sure! I said yes and they hung up. About half an hour later they called again, they don’t speak English, and I thought that he said he wanted to come into the house to see the modem. I told him we were not home and I could be home in 30 minutes. Well, we got home and I still haven’t seen Telmex and I think it has been about 4 hours now!
When we got home I ran to the mailbox to get my keys so I could play with baby and the only thing that was in our mailbox was our electricity bill! No keys. I got on the phone and I actually got to the sporting goods department and found out that Carlos the department manager was on supper break and I was to call back in an hour. Which I did and I was told that Carlos was not in today, but I finally got to a person that could talk a little English and they transferred me to Carlos! In explained what happened and he asked me if he could call me right back and asked for my phone number, I gave him my cell number and about 20 minutes later he called back on Ross’s cell and said that the delivery guys didn’t feel comfortable leaving the keys in the mailbox and will I be home tomorrow between 12 and 1 and they will drop them off for me? Now, this is a company that dropped off the black bike, found out it was broken and told me I could drive it until I got a new one! There is no logic whatsoever! Oh well, again, welcome to Mexico. So I have a very pretty red scooter sitting on my front patio with no keys and we have no internet, I love it here!
It’s now 6:35 pm and he I sit at my kitchen table drinking a glass of wine, Ross is at his meeting and I am a bit on the warm side, the temp is 35 degrees and the humidity is 70%, a bit on the warm side if you don’t have air conditioning! I do have a lot of ceiling fans and they sure help. Handyman and friend just got here to work on the pool pad so I’m gonna say bye for now.
Peace Hugs and Love
Ross and Kim in Mexico
Ps, Our good friend Lynn verified she will be here next Wednesday to stay for a little over a week, we are so stoked to see her.
Pps I have added some pictures, I have been asked for more pictures, I will try to put the captions in the same order as the pictures, we will only see if I’m correct once it is posted to the blog.
1) Our Mini Super down the road (they have little stores everywhere called mini super, they are independent and sell anything they want. I think mostly pop and bread and stuff one big one off the highway sells liquor)
2) Lot next to us for sale next door. They had it cleared to the dirt about 3 weeks ago!
3) Our new steps that will be installed on Sunday
4) Our new mailbox (where baby keys were supposed to be)
5) Betsy out front of our house
6) Our two bikes
7) My kitchen table where I am typing my blog (I’m of course not in it as I m taking the picture)
8) Our pool pad in the making. Handyman just told me his friend will be here at two tomorrow and he will come later and it will be completed. We just need to have Dick come over with his pickup to move the trailer because Juan just isn’t trustworthy!
Only in Mexico! The day started out stellar! Liverpool came to my house to deliver Baby at 11am. Wow, she looks wonderful, her right mirror was a little loose but I fixed that right up with an allen key, however they forgot one little minor thing……………the keys! They told me that they would come back with them but they took longer than they said they would and we needed to go out. With my Spanish dictionary I wrote them a note and taped it to the gate asking them to put the keys in the mail box. I received 3 phone calls while we were out the third one was in English and I explained to them that I had to go out and to please put the keys in the mailbox.
The place we had to go was the start of a new adventure in Real Estate! We went to the construction site of La Fronda, a new development across the highway from the new Wal-Mart that they are building in Nuevo that we are the sole realtors for. It is a huge development of houses in a gated community where you can either buy a house already built or you can buy the land and build yourself. It will have the condo feel where there will be restrictions on the house, but wow, what an opportunity to buy in paradise. You guys are going to get tired of us letting you know of good deals, if you or someone you know is looking to retire here please let them know about us, we need to money! After a look at the plans and some updates we took off to Nuevo Vallarta to Starbucks to have a very informal meeting (this is actually the only kind of meeting there is) with 5 other people, of course with John and Christie (John is feeling much better now, he had dengue fever). We all are working with Elements Realty and John and Christie had some minor business to discuss. One was keeping the office open on the beach street which we are with each couple working 2 days a week from 9-2 in the office. We are just mainly there to greet people and introduce ourselves and show them listings that they may want to look at if they are looking for real estate. Our days are Tuesday’s and Thursdays and I think we will split up working Saturdays. The good news is we found out that Wal-Mart is opening at the end of the month. We might have a kiosk at the front of the store, I am told there will be an entrance where there will be lots of stores and businesses you have to walk by before you actually get into Wal-Mart.
I received a call from Telmex while we were at Starbucks asking if we had internet yet, I said no, and they said “No……..Are you sure! I said yes and they hung up. About half an hour later they called again, they don’t speak English, and I thought that he said he wanted to come into the house to see the modem. I told him we were not home and I could be home in 30 minutes. Well, we got home and I still haven’t seen Telmex and I think it has been about 4 hours now!
When we got home I ran to the mailbox to get my keys so I could play with baby and the only thing that was in our mailbox was our electricity bill! No keys. I got on the phone and I actually got to the sporting goods department and found out that Carlos the department manager was on supper break and I was to call back in an hour. Which I did and I was told that Carlos was not in today, but I finally got to a person that could talk a little English and they transferred me to Carlos! In explained what happened and he asked me if he could call me right back and asked for my phone number, I gave him my cell number and about 20 minutes later he called back on Ross’s cell and said that the delivery guys didn’t feel comfortable leaving the keys in the mailbox and will I be home tomorrow between 12 and 1 and they will drop them off for me? Now, this is a company that dropped off the black bike, found out it was broken and told me I could drive it until I got a new one! There is no logic whatsoever! Oh well, again, welcome to Mexico. So I have a very pretty red scooter sitting on my front patio with no keys and we have no internet, I love it here!
It’s now 6:35 pm and he I sit at my kitchen table drinking a glass of wine, Ross is at his meeting and I am a bit on the warm side, the temp is 35 degrees and the humidity is 70%, a bit on the warm side if you don’t have air conditioning! I do have a lot of ceiling fans and they sure help. Handyman and friend just got here to work on the pool pad so I’m gonna say bye for now.
Peace Hugs and Love
Ross and Kim in Mexico
Ps, Our good friend Lynn verified she will be here next Wednesday to stay for a little over a week, we are so stoked to see her.
Pps I have added some pictures, I have been asked for more pictures, I will try to put the captions in the same order as the pictures, we will only see if I’m correct once it is posted to the blog.
1) Our Mini Super down the road (they have little stores everywhere called mini super, they are independent and sell anything they want. I think mostly pop and bread and stuff one big one off the highway sells liquor)
2) Lot next to us for sale next door. They had it cleared to the dirt about 3 weeks ago!
3) Our new steps that will be installed on Sunday
4) Our new mailbox (where baby keys were supposed to be)
5) Betsy out front of our house
6) Our two bikes
7) My kitchen table where I am typing my blog (I’m of course not in it as I m taking the picture)
8) Our pool pad in the making. Handyman just told me his friend will be here at two tomorrow and he will come later and it will be completed. We just need to have Dick come over with his pickup to move the trailer because Juan just isn’t trustworthy!
9) Baby
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