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what two great questions. Wonderful questions. My wife and I were supposed to arrive in BA a few days ago from California. This is the second time in my long life that I have had to suspend an important activity due to a force out of my control. The first was around 1970 when college classes...

I have read many posts here about expats being ripped off in Bs. As. Unfortunately, I am sure their stories are true. But, how about being ripped off in the first world, like in New York city? Here are my 4 stories: 1. I arrived Monday at 5 am after a red eye from LA. After i picked up my...

Alby Thank you for bringing this topic up. It's important and we all need to understand its implications.

Alby: I think the 91 day rule applies to continuous 91 days, not cumulative. Plus, you need to spend one day more than six month, cumulative, for it to take effect. That is, you can spend two and a half month, leave, and come back and spend another two and a half months and you are OK. Just...

Rich one: I read the article you refer to, but it seems the writer is anything but objective. My impression was he's slamming real estate, so people will contact him to sell it, and then he wants to re-invest in whatever he wants to sell. Cicero, the great Roman lawyer, used to teach: find out...

It seems to me that the spirit of this possible law is to encourage the sale of rentals, which will flood the market with properties for sale, and thus reduce prices. Why? Why would anyone want to buy an apartment and rent it out under these conditions? And if you own one, and rent it out, this...

You may want to contact Luchemos por la vida association civil and

Oops. I just agreed on $300 per hour for a minimum four hours. We are happy. She did a great job

What will it take to rescue Argentina's economy? It certainly wasn't the $50 billion from the IMF. My guess? No one knows; that's the problem! But, everybody has an opinion, and that's a problem too! I haven't lost hope yet, but have been disappointed so many times that I wonder why I still...

You cannot have a dialogue with fanatics. Well, you can, but what's the point?

If the FF takes over, we can expect more like the party they thru in Tucuman today. While they declared a food emergency yesterday, today in Tucuman they thru a party with 10,000 empanadas. Viva la joda y que pague el otro! Here's the link...

One of my hypothesis is that the current government and major media portrayed the Ks as financial Draculas, and they were very successful at convincing the financial markets of this vision. Call it effective propaganda. My question is: are the Ks really financial Draculas? Obviously they believe...

After the primary election, the financial markets in Argentina collapsed. It got very ugly. The peso is down around 30%, the stock market in dollar terms is down 50% and the dollar bond market an equal amount. Market participants feel miserable, and that includes me too! Well, I am a happy...

Pierre: You wrote that "Shoring up the peso instead of keeping the money in reserve seems like . . . bad governance." Yes, but. I served once as the treasurer for a non profit organizations of lawyers. The organization was perennially broke, and the year I was treasurer, we managed to have a...

Kristina and her children get a pardon as a gesture to close the grieta

Here is my list; please add to it. 1. Empty apartments will be confiscated and given to others. 2. Dollar checking accounts will be converted to pesos. 3. Unions will be given the right to take over the companies their affiliates work at. 4. A special tax for Argentines trying to travel abroad...

I was in China in early August, and there they block Google, Gmail, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I used Express VPN to get around the restriction and it worked enough but not good. That is, the best time of the day to have it work for more than five minutes was like at...

Retired banker: You may be right with your statement, but it does not address the original question, which was "What information is there in the public domain to help a buyer decide which is the closer to a fair value?" Can you answer the question asked?

There is one way to estimate market price. Most building in dense areas of BA are cookie cutters; that is, each apartment in a building has a floor plan very similar to the one above or below it. Often too, most buildings are not that different from each other, which means if one can determine a...

I believe the problem occurs because there is not general database that records all the information. In California, each County maintains a public record with the actual sales data of every property. Under current circumstances, it would be impossible to create an Argentina version of Zillow...