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2020-02-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

House Hunters: A Window on a Derelict Culture

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-26 02:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I like the ones who buy property in Mexico along the coast oblivious to the country's Constitution which says foreigners can't own that property. It's just one step away from appropriation by the locals. I'm sure they'll get the papers stamped and filed before showing up to install new locks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-26 06:29|| 2020-02-26 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I understand there is a legal arrangement in Mexico where they set up someone to be co-owner (realtor presumably) or something along those lines. it satisfies mexican law and allows the co-owner to skim off the purchase price.

It's 3rd world, there is always a way if you grease the right palms.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-02-26 08:20|| 2020-02-26 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 ..just as greasing the hands of the local judges who approve the seizure of the property as well. The problem with Danegeld is you have to keep paying the Dane.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-26 09:10|| 2020-02-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 But I do wonder how many viewers realize that the whole business is largely a scripted hallucination...

He just figured out what 'reality TV' really is? Kind of slow on the take, buddy.

Posted by Raj 2020-02-26 12:14|| 2020-02-26 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 #1, 2: A Mexican purchases the property, then issues a 99-year lease to the Gringo. The Gringo builds a nice property. Then an Ejido comes from nowhere to claim land ownership. Mexican lawyers battle it out forever, everybody gets the Gringo's money and he eventually is evicted.

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-26 12:23|| 2020-02-26 12:23|| Front Page Top

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