Baja traffic...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Sound like a good deal, until a commie gets elected and natioanlizes everything.
I guess turn about is fair play?
The beaches on the east side of Mexico are nice, too.
Living here in San Diego we hear more the reality of what is going on.
A couple who are neighbors in my apt. bldg. have a condo in Baja. They moved out of the condo to the Apt. here because as they say, they don't want to be there when the revolution comes.
On the various local news stations here over the years have had horror stories of Mex. Gov. taking over property from Americans.
In the past some months in Baja ther have been more beheadings.
My husband's uncle has had a place there for over ten yrs. He can only lease the land and he can't build a permanent structure but they love it down there.
Note that the people in this article are comparing California real estate to Mexican real estate. No wonder things look cheap.
This story got a lot of attention a few years ago:
- Americans Face Eviction From Baja Resort Homes; 150 homeowners, many of them California retirees, are caught up in a complex land grant dispute -
September 3, 1999 - "In a hard-luck case that illustrates the perils of owning Mexican real estate, about 150 Baja California homeowners, most of them U.S. citizens from Southern California, face mass eviction on Oct. 11 from a picturesque beachfront development just south of here, homes in which many have invested their life savings.
The looming evictions at the surf-side community known as Punta Banda, 85 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, provide a wrenching example of how life in Mexico can turn risky or even tragic. U.S. tourists are increasingly caught up in a wave of carjackings and kidnappings sweeping Mexico, and just last month three U.S. residents in Baja California were slain in separate robbery incidents.
The pending loss of the Punta Banda homes, ranging in value from $50,000 to upward of $1 million each, is a cautionary tale for Americans who are thinking about buying permanent or vacation residences in Mexico.
It should also cause the estimated 63,000 Americans who already own property in Baja California to reflect on how ownership can be like the shifting white sands of the beaches here, and how powerless U.S. authorities are to intervene when disputes arise.
So, if the 150 Punta Banda homeowners are evicted from their homes next month, they would not be the first Americans to lose their shirts in Mexico.
But the scheduled action could rank as Mexico's largest single eviction of U.S. homeowners on record, with about $25 million worth of property involved.
It certainly would stand as one of the most heart-rending, since many of those facing eviction are elderly retirees with no other place to call home.
"We wouldn't have enough to buy another house if we lose this," said Alejandro Sanchez, 67, a retired Yuma, Ariz., bank executive who lives at Punta Banda full time. He was one of 40 homeowners who attended a meeting with an attorney at the development Wednesday to discuss their options. "We put most of our money into this."
"To have us sitting here with our stomachs in a knot, not knowing what will happen next, it's so mentally confusing that people, myself included, are walking around in a daze," said Grant Hoel, 78, a San Juan Capistrano retiree who has owned a house here since 1996.
"I feel terrible, haven't slept for weeks now, worried about this whole situation," said Marcel Boussala, 72, a retired real estate developer from Los Angeles who stands to lose the $600,000 he has invested in a home and three lots. "There are so many people who have nothing except these homes."
Like many of Punta Banda's residents, Joe Maruca, superintendent of the Imperial Unified School District in El Centro, never thought it would come to this.
He will retire from his post this month and was planning to spend his golden years at the Mexican beach house, for which he paid $80,000 cash in 1996. Now, he says, he's "sitting here holding the bag."
Until they come to take over your property.
Mexico does not allow foreigners to own land. There is something wrong here.
I'd rather live in Belize...or Costa Rica. I'll be damned if I'll support anything or anyone from Messssico.
As I understand it, only citizens of Mexico can OWN land in Mexico?
I saw pictures of Baja California. The place is flat-out beautiful. It's like paradise. President Polk should have annexed the land in addition to the Southwest.
Baja traffic...
Only a fool would invest in Mexico.
Watch out for the bubble :)
He's joking, right. Comparing illegally entering our country to legally buying homes in theirs is ridiculous.
My Mom and Dad used to head down to San Felipe every winter from Vegas in the RV.
The placed where they parked made them 'buy' a lot on some rocky hillside. Though actually it was a 20 year lease. I got the impression the Mexicalis don't like yankees buying up their land.