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bajadock
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1st Month Progress on Doc's Pub Baja
Thanks to friends, neighbors and NOMADS for info and advice on my Punta Banda house. Design, materials, contract format and contractor choices were
not too difficult. Month one is done.
Garage and lower level apt floor poured Monday, 4/30 and lower level walls up as of Friday, 5/4. I'm tempted to take wagers from nay-sayers on my
optimistic move-in date. But, that would be bad karma, so I'll continue my education on "mexican" time! 4 pix below to put you to sleep...
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Paulina
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Bajadock,
You are moving right along! Are you up on "Hurricane Alley"?
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bajadock
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PUB LOCATION
Yep, that's me on Ensenada's Ski Slope.
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oladulce
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Gorgeous view bajadock, how exciting.
What's that truck with the round spinning thing and the other with the long tube....wait a minute....is that concrete coming out of there ?! Where
are the guys with the wheelbarrows and cubetas making little volcanos?
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Bob and Susan
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yes THIS is the "correct" way to handle concrete in baja
do these guys think they are in New York City
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Pescador
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boy you are right, I thought they were building in Southern California, I mean sheesh, the authentic way to make concrete is with salty sand, on the
dirt with a barrel of water, a shovel, and a rusty wheelbarrow. Somehow concrete pumpers just don't seem fair.
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Packoderm
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I think I would be very happy to have a home at your location in the hills of Punta Banda. I think that is the only way I could be happy with a home
in Mexico that is not beachfront.
Is the trouble about the Punta Banda ownership issue resolved enough to ease fears about losing your home? How did you go about this: title insurance
or something like that?
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bajabound2005
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Mood: words cannot describe...
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Dock's house is in a different location than where the chaos took place.
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bajadock
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Punta Banda land wars
Packoderm,
The infamous Punta Banda land wars have been concentrated along the 5 mile long beach, aka "sand spit". I listened to those with more
experience(unusual for me) and had a Mexican lawyer handle title via fideicomiso.
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DENNIS
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Most of the expropriated property owners had fideicomisos as well.
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Minnow
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Bienvienidos Doc. We are practically neighbors. Vecinos in spanish.
Proud husband of a legal immigrant.
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fishbuck
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Hey Doc, Can you tell me where you got your blocks and how much? Also, how much is rebar and where to get it?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Minnow
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I don't know what doc paid but there is a Nomad who owns a Ferreteria in Chapultapec called El Vado. A super neat guy, and he will give you a great
deal. Best of all, he is a Meling. He does not post, a lurker, but I can give you his contact info if you need it. Talk about a baja historian. The
stories this guy tells will make the hairs on your arms stand on end.
Proud husband of a legal immigrant.
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DENNIS
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Minnow --
Another Meling, Daniel, came by my place yesterday trying to sell Laja Amarilla, yellow slate from El Rosario. Nice stuff, thick to thin. $?
Man, that Melling family is everywhere.
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Minnow
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Thats right Steve told me about him. He said great prices. I believe they are cousins. I think he is Duanes hijo.
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fishbuck
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there is a Nomad who owns a Ferreteria in Chapultapec called El Vado. A super neat guy, and he will give you a great deal.
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Is that the Chapultapec that is located near the military base in Ensenada?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Minnow
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Si. Take the road to Estero Beach hotel. It is on the right at the first Vado.
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wilderone
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NIce view. when's the party
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bajadock
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DOOR IS OPEN
...Frig is usually BEERED and shelves are normally WINED. First of many c-cktail parties held last Friday, wherewereu? Hope to have grand opening
event on Halloween. Nay-sayers tell me no way. BOOO!
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capitolkat
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Dennis
Not wanting to be a contraian- but the lots lost in Punta Banda were leased land from ejido owners and there was a long dispute between various ejido
factions that eventually ended up being adverse to the American occupants. I've read a lot about it and studied it before buying in Mexcio and I
couldn't find one fidecomiso in the bunch that lost their land.
Life is too short to drink bad wine
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