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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 04:04 PM
Loreto on Househunters International


HGTV-don't know if this was a new program or not, but it was a couple with 2 daughters who moved from Carlsbad to Loreto-pretty cool-this was shown yesterday.
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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 04:27 PM


Hey krafty, do you live in loreto? If you do, do you know Salvador Cortez he owns a party rental business and lives just a few blocks from the marina.



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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 05:52 PM


it's an old one, if I'm remembering right. didn't they end up in Loreto Bay?



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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 07:48 PM


All those Househunters International programs are OLD....La Paz was on there a couple weeks ago & I personally know the realtor featured on the La Paz program....it was filmed 7-10 years ago.
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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 08:19 PM


we saw the loreto one a while ago and we were duly amazed that such a young couple wd consider moving down with their kids. I think Les said the complex they bought into is probably south of Loreto ????




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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 09:22 PM


It was Loreto Bay and I have seen that segment before.I'd bet they aren't even there anymore(the family)....but thats just a guess.I used to love going to that beach before they started building that "place".



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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 09:38 PM


I remember when it was a clothes optional beach. That is all I remember but it is a good mammary. Oops, make that memory.




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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 09:46 PM


Yeah Howard it was back then.I'm remembering before there was anything there but beach.



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[*] posted on 2-17-2011 at 11:20 PM


I liked the episode with the 2 gay guys out of Las Vegas that were looking at houses in La Paz.

The real estate lady shows one of the guys the closet and he commented, "If I had a closet like this I would have never came out of it!"

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[*] posted on 2-18-2011 at 07:52 AM


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I remember when it was a clothes optional beach. That is all I remember but it is a good mammary. Oops, make that memory.

Yep, I remember when it was just the one hotel out there...with a "regular" side of the beach and a nude side of the beach...and 1 giant hot tub. It was such a beautiful place to stay. I haven't been back since they started the "Villages at Loreto Bay", but I hear that they tore down that hotel and now own what use to be the Camino Real. :no:




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[*] posted on 2-18-2011 at 07:57 AM


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It was Loreto Bay and I have seen that segment before.I'd bet they aren't even there anymore(the family)....but thats just a guess.I used to love going to that beach before they started building that "place".

They are and have a business servicing the community.
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[*] posted on 2-18-2011 at 09:40 AM


"... now own what use to be the Camino Real."
After Butterfield and Grogan walked away and stuck Citibank with their failing enterprise, Citibank allowed Fonatur to take back the "Inn at Loreto Bay" (gag me), formerly the hotel Camino Real and the golf course in order to maintain them so as to make the the whole development more appealing for a prospective new owner. Now Homex, a Mexican developer, has purchased some of the Loreto Bay property to develop it, but does not own the hotel or golf course.
At least that's my understanding.

I saw that HGTV program too. They'd coo about the "sustainability" of the development - what utter @#$%^ - as a basis for their decision.
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[*] posted on 2-18-2011 at 09:47 AM


bajabarry, What is their business "servicing the community" May I ask?



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[*] posted on 2-19-2011 at 01:04 PM


Yeah, saw that very sad show on hgtv a couple of times. It was filmed probably a year or two before the place went belly up. I feel very sad for the family as they were sold a bill of goods, that is, lied to big time.

The frustrating part is that the couple were sooooo naive. Man, I could see it coming 10 minutes into the show. The problem is that they didn't seem like the type of people that would actually go to the old town of Loreto and walk among the people, so to speak, and get an authentic feel for Loreto, the indigent people, and the culture, and the valid/real price versus value situation in Loreto.

It seemed to me that they were looking for a gringo enclave and found it, thinking that was the way to go for ever and ever, there, in Loreto, in the Baja, in Mexico. They were/are the quintessential and ideal prey for the Newport Beachy-seeming la-di-da type of confidence men-developers of beach front baja projects.

If you have enough money, you can insulate yourself from just about anything. I hope they had/have that kind of money and were able to resurect their lives. Didn't seem so, though.

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[*] posted on 2-19-2011 at 08:29 PM


MitchMan, see the posts above re: the family.



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[*] posted on 2-20-2011 at 11:45 AM


Thanks, Sally for setting me straight. I hereby officially eat my words, and, I am happy to do that. I genuinely fealt bad for the family. They appeared to be very very nice people and the kids seemed great kids as well. Very relieved and gratified to learn/realize that they have been able and willing to hang in there. It certainly seems that I underestimated them.
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[*] posted on 2-20-2011 at 08:48 PM


MitchMan, It's all ok.However, bajabarry never did answer my question I asked about the familiys'"servicing the community"Young kids adapt so easily into a foreign school and community system, it seems.My grandkids have done exactly that.I really hope what bajabarry said is true .Wonder where he went?



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