Hard to Believe!

HUMPH

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So, here we are in San Jose del Cabo Mexico and the Admiral has the audacity to tell me to sell MY boat to put towards the purchase of a condo in Cabo! Nice place? Yes. Drop dead gorgeous views? Yes. Sell my boat? F-No! Interested in hearing from anyone with similar issues.
 

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haha... my wife says sell the boat and buy an RV!! eh.... I keep the boat and.... I will buy the RV as well !!
 
Did you keep her? That is the wife I mean.
 
No boat is not an option with my lovely wife! I am blessed.

Happy wife equals happy life.

Cheers
 
Heck. My wife was the one who said that we needed a bigger boat!


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After going 8 years boat less my wife decided I needed another boat. she found a 2000 formula 27pc. After 3 seasons with that she decided we needed a bigger boat. Now we have our 2005 320 sundancer that we purchased in December. Now she is looking for our next boat already
 
Heck. My wife was the one who said that we needed a bigger boat!


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Mine as well, hence the hard to believe part...
 
Why not get the condo in Mexico AND keep the boat there. It worked for Hemingway.

Henry


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That is an option, just not the place she liked. You can't finance a house down there unless it is owner financed. This one is cash or owner financed 50% which means paying penalties on investments I would have to liquidate.
 
So, here we are in San Jose del Cabo Mexico and the Admiral has the audacity to tell me to sell MY boat to put towards the purchase of a condo in Cabo! Nice place? Yes. Drop dead gorgeous views? Yes. Sell my boat? F


Been there as well. Almost exactly the same situation. I told the Admiral that it would never happen and if its brought up again there would be a mutiny. Hasn't surfaced again, YET
 
Since 2008 we have gone to the BAJA first for 1 month then 3 and now 4. It is a nice place but you may find that renting is less expensive than buying. The area has changed in 10 years to the point it is almost as expensive as the US. Only items that seem less are produce and alcohol. The area was a community when we first went now it is a resort. People rent their places and the renters stay for 1 to 2 weeks. Home ownership involves having a property manager that pays your bills, looks after it when you are not there and cleans the place after the big rains and winds. In our area it is about 200 a month. If you want details of our experiences PM me. We feel safe in the area we go to.
 
Since 2008 we have gone to the BAJA first for 1 month then 3 and now 4. It is a nice place but you may find that renting is less expensive than buying. The area has changed in 10 years to the point it is almost as expensive as the US. Only items that seem less are produce and alcohol. The area was a community when we first went now it is a resort. People rent their places and the renters stay for 1 to 2 weeks. Home ownership involves having a property manager that pays your bills, looks after it when you are not there and cleans the place after the big rains and winds. In our area it is about 200 a month. If you want details of our experiences PM me. We feel safe in the area we go to.
Ithe points you bring up are a big reason we looked at condos. The grounds are taken care of and it is pretty easy to rent the place out when we aren't there. Cabo is getting expensive for Mexico but taxes are low, food is cheap too if you eat outside of the tourist areas. We have more places to check out but Cabo is a short flight, has great weather overall and has great fishing.
 
If you are going to rent a place Mexico has a VAT of 16% plus some areas have a hotel tax. We are starting to see VAT on restaurant meals and grocery stores. The Baja is not the Caribbean. The water and air temperatures are not as warm from December to the end of February.
 
Yeah, NO! Keep the wife, keep the boat, buy land to. Hold on later is more like it...

Maybe the bankers know what they're doing...........
Keep your condo money and take more vacations.
 
We toyed with the idea of getting a condo and a center console parked outside but we really don't have the kind of time necessary to really take advantage of it, whereas with the current boat we can use it every weekend.

Fun to think about though.
 
Close friends of ours just bought a vacation home in South Carolina. He recently retired, and she is retiring within a year. Their plan is to go back and forth from here in NY to SC several times a year, and more in the winter months. It works for them and their lifestyle.
My wife and I are in a similar position (almost 63 &60) but have much younger kids (20 & 17). I stoped working this past winter and she'll stop sometime next year.
Our daughter is away at college, and we are looking at them for my son.
We plan on having lots of free time when he goes away to school. A vacation home doesn't work for us because we don't want to spend all our travel time going to the same place.
We went for a bigger boat instead so we can take longer boat trips in the season, and then plan to take several vacations a year to lots of different places in the off season.
 

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