ElFaro
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Evictions in the Bahia San Francisquito Area
Recently I had a conversation with an acquaintance who owned a home in Baja on the Gulf that many of you might be interested in...the conversation
that is.
He and his wife bought a long term lease about 25-30 years ago from a Mexican couple who owned about 800 acres on the Gulf just south of Bahia San
Francisquito area. They built a home there 25 years ago along with a few others and would fly down regularly to get away from their busy lives here.
I asked him if he's been down to his house of late and he told me they lost their house.
Here's what happened...
The original couple had children who then had their own children. The grandfather died and the grandmother (the original couple) was getting up in
years and the grandchildren convinced the grandmother (who by now lived in TJ) to sell the property. Had she died the property would have ended up in
court battles between siblings. Anyway the property sold in the millions and everyone in the family got some serious coin out of the deal. My
acquaintance says their all driving around in Hummers burning up the proceeds.
In Nov. 2007 my acquaintance received a notice to be out of the house by August of 2008. He said he could have fought the eviction but he didn't want
to end up like the Gringos south of Mulege who's homes simply were torched to the ground and thus had nothing to fight back with. In January, 2008 he
had a garage sale there and made out pretty good overall. He vacated the house by March, 2008 and hasn't been back since.
He told me the rumor going around was that a Mexican group bought the property to develop it as a mega resort.
In a similar vein he told me there is an Ejeido south of El Barril owned by about 10 families whose Ejeido fronts the Gulf shore for about 20 miles.
Some Mexican group from the mainland is buying the Ejeido by giving each family about $500,000 down and the rest of about $5 million to be paid over 3
years.
How does this all tie in you might ask ?
My acquaintance doesn't think these properties were bought at all for mega resort developments. For one thing there is no water there to sustain
them.
He thinks DRUG money is buying these properties as remote places to drop off drugs from hi-powered skiffs across the Gulf from the mainland. They
then set up the properties to
look like tourist beaches with palapas and such when in reality they are used as night dropoffs because of their remoteness. There are dirt airfields
nearby to aid the DRUG transport.
He told me he has heard skiffs motoring up to beaches near where his home was in the wee hours of the morning in pitch black darkness.
He also told me after Pres. Fox left office he and some business associates bought a chunk of Gulf frontage property in the Las Animas area.
My acquaintance is a pretty straightforward guy and I have no reason to question his anecdotal information.
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elgatoloco
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How nice that he was able to enjoy such a beautiful area for these many years. My family and I have over the last 48 years always given pause when we
leave our house to return stateside, more so in recent years, do to the uncertainity of things. The memories are priceless.
As for the rest of the conversation..: 
MAGA
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danaeb
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A year ago, I might have found your story overblown. I'm a 60yr old native San Diegan and have always defended Tijuana, Rosarito and Ensenada (my
southern neighborhood) to those who have questioned my sanity in spending time there. But......
....on a recent flight from La Paz to TJ, I had to spend 45 minutes in the TJ airport lobby, waiting for my shuttle to the border. As I hung around,
I started noticing the people waiting for arrivals to come through the doors into the airport lobby. There was a mid-30ish, trim man waiting for a
party to arrive. Shortly, a woman who appeared to be an airport employee escorted a young man, who looked to be college kid, thru the lobby into the
care of the young man. It was so obvious. The bodyguard disappeared with the kid.
About 10 minutes later, the bodyguard reappeared in the lobby, taking up the same station, until the next customers, a family of three, were delivered
to him.
That was the moment when I lost my naivete about what's happening in Baja, and Mexico in general.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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capt. mike
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you say south of PSFO. are you talking about the south end of the beach there, or some place SOUTH of there?
if it is the 2 homes on the south end, one was owned by Dr. R. C. a long time baja enthusiast and volunteer pilot with LIGA who i met frequently
there. i understand he had to "abandone" his home but i also know those lots were leased and the homes paid for as retreats by the users and were "at
risk".
further - both homes were pretty ramshackle and weather beaten. ok for vaca trips but not what you'd want to live in full time.
if you are talking about some land between PSFO and El Barril i'd like to hear more. there are no other useable strips between those destinations.
i have heard the high speed boats running north past the neach at PSFO in the middle of the night and was told by Genaro they were converted military
like PT boats running turbine power. he said they beach at El Golfo. where they are met by trucks.
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hmmmmmmm - this info is here on the forum for the world to read. I know it's been going on for years. So apparently it's almost common knowledge -
the who, what, where, how much, and how many. Why in the world isn't some intelligence and statistical operation coordinated by the military or even
contract allies to combat these people? The "war" on drugs? This is sand-box play.
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Von
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One day all this fun and bs we see from people who just want to ruin it for the rest of us will be gone. OH well time to go to work. Talk to you guys
later........................................................
READY SET.....................
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
hmmmmmmm - ..... Why in the world isn't some intelligence and statistical operation coordinated by the military or even contract allies to combat
these people? |
A fellow I know who lives north of San Nicholas said he gets his pot from the military jefe who comes in to clean up the mess after they shoot the
smugglers who come in at night on solid-hulled Zodiacs powered by three 250 hp Honda marine motors....they race across Sea of Cortes leaving a trail
of empty fuel containers that the gringos then pick up and use for their own fuel storeage....
Don't believe everything you think....
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Dave
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He's lucky he got 25-30...
| Quote: | Originally posted by ElFaro
He and his wife bought a long term lease about 25-30 years ago |
DAYS. 
A long term lease ain't legal. He could have been evicted years ago.
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