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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 09:29 AM


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You shrewd speculators might want to hook up with Baja doctors up and down the peninsula, have them alert you when somebody goes on the DNR list. Perfect environment here for Sopilotes.


Well 'O..Spray :lol:

My sentiments exactly :biggrin:




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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 09:38 AM


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I appreciate your opinions Al. As I have stated I don't own in Baja as of yet but Intend to.

I do understand...your opinions are based on desire not need...and mine are based on desire to bring down prices in my target area that went up 1000% in 1-2 years. I know brokers sitting on many properties that have prices that would give them 1000% +. now if they went through a development process, with high cost and time...I would feel different. Now I will hope they get it broke off deep. These prices are not justified for a 50 year lease...that is dependant on who gets elected. Put it this way...if a retiree has the desire to live out his/her life in Baja on a 50 year lease, with the hope that it will be passed on to their children, and in reality they lose everything. If the price is within the reasonable expectation for the risk...then they may have enough left to live in dignity somewhere else. If the spectators get their way there will be many people that may lose their golden years....You must remember this is a LEASE nothing more...if you don't believe me then you didn't see old women crying and old men hands tremble in the last election when there was a possibility the socialist would win...




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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 09:51 AM


It's beyond me that, with that mentality, you would even look at anything in Baja.
You should consider a 3 bedroom, tract like home with a picket fence, somewhere in the middle of a cornfield in central Kansas.:P:P:biggrin:




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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 10:16 AM


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It's beyond me that, with that mentality, you would even look at anything in Baja.
You should consider a 3 bedroom, tract like home with a picket fence, somewhere in the middle of a cornfield in central Kansas.:P:P:biggrin:

Everyone has an opinion...mine are based in reality. I have a draw to Baja and will act on that. I do not have to agree with you or the over hyped prices...or the people who advocate paying more then something is worth...




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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 11:41 AM


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"damn I missed again" There is a saying in the game I play..."never try and catch a falling knife":lol:
You are right about getting ready though...but pulling the trigger on the way down can be fatal to your investment unless you in it for a time and are aware it may never be lucrative.
If your timing is perfect you can still lose...crime gets worse or a socialist is elected and he declares all land returned to the state....both real possibilities. In fact they are the main reason I believe the Baja market is way over heated...prices have gone up over 200% in a couple years. Some much more then that, and I don't see the support for that kind of risk. Speculation is a major reason for the price spike and adds to the risk for the average non spectulator...now is not the time to buy...and spectulators better hang on to their shorts...


Damn Al, there really is something rolling around up there besides marbles. :lol::lol:

Wait until all the finance fraud issues shake themselves out. 25% drop from the highs, is way, way positive.

Houses are still selling in Vegas. The builders are having sales events where they cut their prices by over 15%. Of course, the discount on the ones that fell through from the original boom is way, way more. More like 27%. We had 40 of them listed, and managed to sell them all, but I think the current value of those is 15% less, than what those people paid. Can you imagine living in a gated, golf course community, and your neighbor paid 100k more than you did 2 years ago for the same house, and you are still upside down.

This thing has a long way to go yet. Mexico is going to be an after though for most people after this whole mess plays itself out.




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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 01:20 PM


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Well 'O..Spray :lol:


Would that be O'Spray of the Dublin O'Sprays? Or was that Jersey City of long time gone?
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[*] posted on 12-6-2007 at 03:18 PM


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Hey grover...are you inviting me to the wet buzzard for a breakfast burrito and a cup of joe...how did you get the buzzard wet:lol:




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[*] posted on 12-8-2007 at 12:55 PM


Say it again.
"When the U.S. sneezes, Baja catches pneumonia."

Add gangs of rogue cops, assasinations, corpse-snatching, sexual assault, and accelerating extortion and you have the perfect recipe for a crash c-cktail.

Two new armed carjackings on Blvd. 2000 (Popotla bypass) last week.
Donnie Combover has taken down his billboards--even the vaunted Trump project is on its heels.

We'll see high tide again some day.
Just might take a decade or so.

In the meantime be safe out there.




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