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Guys - probably time for me to give you all a bit of an update - I'm still not naming names JUST yet - but I promise that will happen within the next few days... As of tomorrow we are moving out so that I get my 6500 peso deposit back - before she disappeared with her tail between her legs the...

You got that in one my friend - totally :) I'm hopeful that by this time tomorrow we have it done and dusted :) Well, at least the apartment organized - then even the shift will feel more tolerable...

Yes - franksredhots - sadly this is true... Which is why we are basically back to square one - although my partner has been busy on the internet and phone today and has a few more places lined up for tomorrow (sin garantia of course) and it sounds like in each case they are prepared to put in a...

PS My partner has two garantias - but they are in provincia so she can't use them - she also has one here in capital and the lady is extremely wealthy - but for some weird reason I don't understand her garantia is also not accepted - its quite beyond me - but bottom line, to all intents and...

Thanks for that - its STILL not 100% finished - there are some issues with the new apartment and we are still not signed off - so, fingers crossed and we still have several more apartments to see tomorrow - we are cutting it fine - too fine - but then again, not a situation we asked for or...

It looks like there is going to be a decent solution to this situation now guys - thought I should update you all. Looks like I will get 1.5 months rent back in the next few days from the landlady (I think she is getting a bit nervous - can't imagine why lol) and it looks like we will have a new...

Hybrid Ambassador :) Onegai shimasu - dozo :)

I'm thinking I might have to sell international to be honest Ghost - its a shame though - I was hoping to either find (or create) a bit of a Nihonto scene right here - I need to sell these two because I have my eye on one really spectacular papered 600 year old tanto that is magnificent - but I...

PMSL :) lol You WOULD get me in the middle of my morning coffee Ghost :) lol @ Hybrid Ambassador - the nakago of the sword is unsigned (mumei) but it has kanteisho from Fujishiro-san himself attributing the blade to the Shinto (i.e. after 1600 - or after 1598 depending on how exact you want to...

I have felt that temptation - a perfect 350 year old shinto blade - seki school - in perfect polish so she still has her perfect razor edge :) She is just the right size for swinging around in an apartment too - more of an uchigatana than a katana and a blade length of only about 2 shaku - could...

Ghost - I hear you... That project is ongoing right now - full on in the middle of apartment hunting right now - we saw one yesterday and will be seeing several more this week and then making a decision - not to mention explaining to the landlady that she better have our money for us if she...

Thanks guys - I did track down a place in Japan not far from where I used to live years ago - they sell Urushi repair kits - I wonder what Aduana will make of it if I order it and get it sent here (?)

Okay - I'm in the middle of disasters right now with trying to find a new apartment and all sorts of other stuff - but in the middle of all that I have a totally unrelated question... I have a very precious antique item - a 350 year old Japanese samurai sword which is quite exceptional in a...

I'm hearing a lot of common sense here I think guys - we are STILL desperately running around looking for a new apartment - but as I said to my partner already, IF we have a new place to move into we are MOVING, if NOT we are staying put until we HAVE a new place - and we are not moving out...

PS Frenchie - see my last post :) (Still can't find the damn document and conveniently nobody else seems to have a copy of it either :(

Thanks guys - I think I need to see if I can find that receipt we got from the rental agency and I think we also need to see about some sort of refund also - because to put it bluntly, we have been royally screwed - by both the rental agency and the landlady from hell. Just to make things more...

I might ask a quick question here guys - is this NORMAL? I paid 21,000 pesos in cash to the rental office to get IN to this apartment - I understood that was because I was ''sin garantia'' and this was like security or whatever - my partner has just explained to me now that the ONLY part of that...

PS I have to mention this one last point - so you all can try to judge/figure out ''what the heck'' - she (my partner) reminded me today over breakfast how the landlady at the time actually SAID to her (and me) ''if you want, we go to the public notary now to change the agreement and make it...

Here's the latest update guys - NO solution - the husband basically told us a lot of BS - the woman? She still wants us OUT (in the middle of this heatwave!) on the first day after the 11th of January (the 6 month contract runs out on the 11th of January and of course the agreement we had with...

Well - I didn't exactly do it ''solo'' - I actually started out with a lawyer who is well known on this forum - but I finished it off with my de facto Argentine partner acting as my lawyer instead - doing a far better job than he ever did and getting me results WITHOUT costing me 3000 USD. I...