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How to rent a house in Mexico | Queretaro - YouTube
Channel: La Karencita
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everyone wants to live in the beautiful
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city of caritago because of its
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beautiful architecture
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it's year-round perfect weather
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it's accessible cost of living
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kereta is a very popular destination
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where many expats want to live
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but it's not only expats if you come
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here you'll realize that many people
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aren't from kereta that means that
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people from all over the country and the
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rest of the world
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want to come here
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my husband and i are looking to rent an
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apartment we're staying in airbnb
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at the moment and this is a place where
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we want to leave keretago in mexico
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people watching the channel often ask me
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what do you need to run an apartment in
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mexico
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stick around and i'll show you
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everything you need to know
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we looked for an apartment or house
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online and we realized they were a
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little bit more
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expensive than we expected because the
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first thing that comes up
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is the big real estate agencies like
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mithulla.com or propiedades.com
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in karate there are a lot of facebook
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groups
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devoted to renting or selling apartments
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so we decided to try that
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so what we need is a house or an
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apartment
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it needs to be furnished because we
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don't have any
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furniture because we've just arrived in
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mexico i don't want to buy
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and we don't want to buy any it's very
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expensive and we want to live as close
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to the center as possible
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our budget is five hundred dollars five
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hundred dollars i put five hundred
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dollars
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yeah about ten thousand pesos a month so
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i've put this post and we'll see
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how much response we get
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so we made the post and we were
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surprised by the amount of answers we
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received
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so we've got some responses on facebook
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here so let's have a look
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what do you think i think we've got a
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lot of options
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and they look pretty good let's choose
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three of them
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okay let's see how it goes so one person
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has sent us an apartment for
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8 500 pesos a month that sounds great
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sounds good okay and what else
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what about this one so let's see let's
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see if they come back to us
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let's see let's see
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we are outside the first apartment that
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we are about to see
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and we're waiting for the real estate
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agent to show us
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what i liked about this apartment is
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that it has a pool
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and also it's very cheap it costs 8
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500 pesos a month which is 425
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which is a very good price because we
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are in a central area as well
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well let's see let's see how it goes
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with the second apartment
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we're about to see the second apartment
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and we arrive a little bit earlier
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but so far i can see that i like
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this area more behind me we have a green
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browser we have a voucher we have a
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pharmacy
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we have all this right on our doorstep
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so what did you think of the second
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house uh
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i like it very much it's very big it's i
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think that house is
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perfect for a family three bedrooms yeah
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it was in a part of keratoro called
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cantilev which is
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quite a long way from the center but
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still that area is very good
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you can live there without any problem
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so that was ten thousand pesos a month
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not including bills uh it doesn't
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include a washing machine
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there's an included washing machine and
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probably a sofa
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yeah i think there were quite a few
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things that we would need to buy if we
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chose that house yeah
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this is beautiful i think this is my
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favorite house
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of course we're going to have a lot of
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options to take the best decision
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so we saw this third house and it's
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it's beautiful i really like it it has a
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rooftop
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with a hot tub
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so which house should we choose so the
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first apartment had a pool
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and it was the cheapest although it was
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a little bit small the second house was
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super big
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although it was very expensive i think
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we found
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the house that we want the third one was
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amazing yeah i'm very excited yeah i can
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imagine having
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people around and sunbathing on the roof
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yeah
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in the hot tub having a barbecue yeah
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yeah it looks good
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okay let's tell them and we'll let you
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know how we get done
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but we didn't imagine the amount of
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paperwork they would ask for
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and just as we gathered all the
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paperwork we had an unpleasant surprise
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as you already saw they ask for a lot of
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requirements
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normally if you want to rent a house in
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mexico they ask for
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pretty much the same requirements so one
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of these is
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an about which is in english is
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guarantor so somebody
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who's going to co-sign the lease and if
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you don't pay
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then they'd have to pay and it's not
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just that they say it needs to be
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somebody who already owns a property in
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kereta we were very lucky because we
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already own a house in mexico
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so they allowed to put this house as a
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guarantee yeah yeah so i'm there
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another procedure if you don't have a
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naval and that's called
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police which means in english the
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document that a
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lawyer makes up for you and it makes it
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easier for them to sue you
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if you don't pay i think for that you
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have to pay
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for us it was four thousand pesos
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yeah it's not cheap no it's not cheap
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for some reason
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even though we had the property they
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wanted the police that would really go
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as well
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we needed to provide five references
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so they called my family in the uk they
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called your mom
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they're called some friends friends yeah
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right it's
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very weird because they can't say
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anything about you
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bank statements passports visas
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in your case in my case marriage
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certificates
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yeah they were they were asking for a
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lot
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of things and i was getting annoyed i
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think some of the real estate agencies
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are quite strict
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so we were getting a bit frustrated with
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all of these requirements
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and they as you can see they're asking
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for quite personal information
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you have to consider that we'd already
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paid the deposit
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so they've seen our bank statements
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they'd seen they called all of our
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families it seemed that we were
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able to pay the rent and that we were
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trustworthy people
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so it's normal in mexico if you sign for
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a house you'll have to sign
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a series of packers
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in english literally means i will pay
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when you rent a house in mexico it's
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normal to sign 12 promises
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one for each one of the contract when
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you pay the rent for each month
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they report the contract the document or
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they give it back to you but if you
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don't pay
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they can sue you with that document and
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well that's quite normal
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you usually sign for 12 pagaries one for
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each month
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but they were asking for a 13th
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battery and this battery was for
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111 000 mexican pesos
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which is five nearly six thousand
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dollars
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for the furniture if you rent a
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furnished house and you break something
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and then you have to pay for it that
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makes sense we understand that
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but in that paragraph it said that we
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needed to pay
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all the furniture we'll show you the the
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wording of the packary
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is in spanish but it says we promise to
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pay
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you 111 000 pesos on this date
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next year nothing about furniture just
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like that
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and i said to them the owner we're not
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signing this this is no good
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what did she say oh don't worry don't
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worry it's just in case
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you're gonna pay this it didn't say
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anything it just said that we needed to
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pay that
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so we consulted with our lawyer and on
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his advice
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we we withdrew so now
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we don't have anywhere to live again and
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we lost the two thousand pesos that we
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paid for the policy
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unfortunately they they gave us the
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deposit back yeah
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but we would have seen them yeah so
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let's keep
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looking for a house let's keep looking
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so we kept looking unfortunately we
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found another house
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right in the center
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this house is also beautiful it's right
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in the center
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it's big super massive it's fully
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burnished
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two floors as you already saw i think i
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like it
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and then they told me that this costs
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ten thousand
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five hundred dollars
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oh finally it was on the house how do
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you feel
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we lived and it was easier than the
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last house yeah they haven't even asked
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for uh papers or anything
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no we said and some references as well i
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think that's very common
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they are val as well yes but you have
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you could do that and we didn't need to
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pay for the polished apparently
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that's better and it's right in the
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center yeah
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that's an advantage it's a big house as
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you saw
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furnished it's got parking two bedrooms
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all within our 10 000 peso budget
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can you believe that in the last
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year we have lived in how many places
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a lot of places i think we've had about
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eight houses
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really did your content okay hanoi hanoi
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the uk and three so far
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in this house we're gonna live for a
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year yes so
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finally we can unpack our suitcases
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and relax we made this video because a
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lot of people ask us in the comments
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about living in korean
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about moving to to mexico overall so
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hopefully this video will be helpful for
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you and interesting
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so if you want help uh moving to
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graduate specifically because
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that's where we are we would like to
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offer advice
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and help to people who who want to move
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to mexico
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as you've seen from our journey it's not
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always that easy
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and having somebody on the ground uh
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can make all the difference as we showed
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you it's a lot cheaper to look through
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facebook
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rather than the established websites so
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if you feel like you would benefit from
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this assistance
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then look in the description below and
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we'll put
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some details for how to get in touch
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with us there
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what do you think what house would you
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have chosen
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do you think we made the correct
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decision what do you think about the
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requirements here in mexico
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another piece of good news is that i
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reached 1 million
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views on this channel i'm very glad
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that a lot of people are watching the
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channel so i'd like to know
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what sort of videos you are interested
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in
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we have some ideas but we're very
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interested in knowing
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what you're looking for to see well and
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that's everything for today
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i'm very glad that you wanted to
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participate
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in this video i'll see you in the next
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video if you like this video if you have
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any comment don't forget to write it
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