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uh... my name is mark brown and i am from my Dhahran saudi arabia
and i uh... just bought a brand new condo in Rosarito Beach, Mexico
which i found over the internet on Baja123
their website was the only site i found a mexico
that had
all the listings for all of mexico and at all the information i needed i didn't
have to register it was very easy to use
very informative and lots of pictures
it was fast and uh...
so i began a search all over mexico
for at the ideal beachfront condo
and originally i was looking in Cabo San Lucas
and i couldn't find what i wanted on the beach there
so i started looking elsewhere in ahh Mexico
and i found this picture of this beautiful place in Rosarito Beach
and uh... I said that's what i want to be right on the beach
I want to be in a new unit
i want to have full oceanview
and i want it in the price range I want
so once i found this picture i sent an email to baja123
and that's how i met Zinnia Quezada
who is my real estate agent and she's done a fantastic job for
me
everything i did on this I did over the internet
using the baja123 site
i'd never been to Rosarito beach in my life and I have never been to Cabo San Lucas
in my life
but um
I just started working with Zinnia and it worked out perfectly
because she was
a really really good
real estate agent
in order to find
somebody this good
basically by chance
over the internet was really amazing
Zinnia and i had a long journey on ahh finding this condo the first one i
was interested in was resell and uh...
yeah sold a couple hours before zinnia and i got in touch with each other
and then we started working on another one
and we were in the La Jolla Real development
she started doing the work with the developer this is a developers unit
and she negotiated everything for me and she got the very best deal that anybody
ever gotten in this development
and we were doing the due diligence in following up
and at the last minute we found that this property had a lien on that
couldn't be released
and so we backed out of that deal
and then zinnia
shows she protected by interest very very well
and then we
started again and she walked this entire property to find me the next best you
from the developer and one with no lien on it
and that's how i ended up in in this unit and then basically zinnia did
everything for me
you know she helped me with the decor she helped me um...you know
everything i needed here in Rosarito
uh... but more importantly
she worked with the developer to make sure everything was was just right she
didn't walk through
she found all the defects major or other defects were repaired
so that i have a you know a perfect unit
um
i'd just can't tell you how good a job she did
did for me considering that
up until the first couple months i've never met her we were doing all this
through email and telephone
I picked mexico because i wanted a beach front property and i'd look around and other
countries in islands and i decided i didn't really want to be m in islands
and the property prices were about the right range
for when i was looking for
and i new mexico and i know that people say that mexico is unsafe
but honestly i i did my research and the state department u_s_ state department
website
and i found out that they assess every state in mexico
and the threat warning
here in baja california norte
is the exact same as the threat warning in saudi arabia
that the state department has and i know how safe i feel there
and so I said I think i'll be safe here
and I really did the research
uh... i did a lot of research uh... on
on the crime situation and i felt very comfortable
to buy this
you know the the ownership method that you have here in mexico with the bank
trust
uh... worked well enough for me you know there's there's wrinkles everywhere you
go
in ownership for foreigners of beach property
so this one was a nice comfortable with that legal structure of available
and honestly zinnia held my hand the whole way
and made me comfortable
i noticed that the contractors both in english and spanish in the only the
spanish prevails
and i started looking through the contract with english is not great but
it was good enough but i realize that the spanish wasn't even accurate in the
contract from the developer
and Zinnia helped me with the translation and we worked through to make sure my legal interests
are protected
appropriately
yeah i'd say yeah i don't be worried about it and then there's parts of
mexico that are very dangerous and there's parts of mexico that are very
safe
and a lot of these resort areas are quite safe
uh... the other thing that helped me here is um
my residents in the united states is in phoenix
so Rosarito is ideal for me because i can try for phoenix anytime i want
and i can't actually crossed back cross the border for san diego los angeles
anytime i want to either for health care or shopping or anything else
that I don't feel like i can find Rosarito which
i've not found yet you know there's a home depot wal-mart
and that was another big
thing for me was to have a few of those anchor stores in anchor restaurants
that maybe i'm not gonna get in the *** islands wherever else
so that i knew i could buy the things I needed to buy so I could furnish
continue to live here
so that was another selling point
well i mean initially was website
quite frankly i was just having that really good website
and that website then led me to use in baja123
and in an agent I wanted somebody that spoke english well
and that
you know was reliable that did what they said they would do when they said they
would do it
and you know that i could have communication with
easily because i was doing this all from overseas
i'd never set foot in Rosarito
so i have somebody reliable zinnia was very reliable made me feel
comfortable
she spoke english and i could tell that she was working really hard
to get me the best deal
you know she did the extra step towards times where
i was like i am ready and she's no we gotta do this we gotta do this we gotta
do this just hold off a couple more weeks and we are going to get you a better
deal
so it was very easy to become comfortable
i have the right realtor
um... and like i said it was by chance
but it worked out
really really really well
I couldn't be happier
i would recommend zinnia to anybody i'd recommend baja123 to anybody
uh... i think you'll get a really and
the other thing isn't it put me in touch with other people like title companies
in
cable and everything else so she's really help me from soup to nuts you
know
not just with the real estate transaction
now which is also a is not part of her normal job which is
but a few uh...
tenants forward to me and things like that so
i really felt
comfortable the whole way through