How's everyone hanging in there with the cost of living these days?

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

I pay through fideicomiso and they’re expecting ARBA to triple so are ripping us off early.
$250000 is ARBA the rest is expenses

 

[FrankPintor]

Mines 450 ARBA is though the roof

Well, you win!

There's some weird shit about ARBA, until you have your property individually registered ("escriturada"), ARBA is charged on the entire barrio, including all the empty lots, as if it was a single commercial property.

The "fideicomiso" isn't in a hurry with the "escrituracion" because they get they get to contract services to their friends until that happens.

 

[steveinbsas]

I pay through fideicomiso and they’re expecting ARBA to triple so are ripping us off early.
$250000 is ARBA the rest is expenses

They have already charged you $250.000 pesos for ARBA for 2025?

If the ARBA tripples in 2025, mine will be about $200.000 (247 mtr2 finished construction/5880 mtr2 land ).

I will pay the tax in five cuotas.

My expenses will continue to be zero.

 

[VincentKMcMahon]

They have already charged you $250.000 pesos for ARBA for 2025?

If the ARBA tripples in 2025, mine will be about $200.000 (247 mtr2 finished construction/5880 mtr2 land ).

I will pay the tax in five cuotas.

My expenses will continue to be zero.

How much did it cost to buy your place in dollars ?

 

[FrankPintor]

They have already charged you $250.000 pesos for ARBA for 2025?

I think both @Ronnie Hotdogs and me are talking monthly payments.

If the ARBA tripples in 2025, mine will be about $200.000 (247 mtr2 finished construction/5880 mtr2 land ).

Well, that is quite some house. 250sqm?

 

[steveinbsas]

Well, that is quite some house. 250sqm?

247 mts2 finished construcción = 2 buildings.

The main house has 150 mts2 coverage with a 75 mt2 unfinished (no roof) attached quincho behind it. The 150 mts2 includes about 20 mt2 exterior (covered) galaries. The area of the house does not include a garage.

Behind the house is a separate building with 97 mt2 covered space. It incluidas a laundryroom and a spacious garage as well as a 55 mt2 one bedroom apartment.

The house looks a lot like the one in this Mercado Libre publication, but I can't take a photo that shows the front of it because I planted so many trees in the front yard more than ten years ago:

Mercado Libre

 

[FrankPintor]

247 mts2 finished construcción = 2 buildings.

The main house has 150 mts2 coverage with a 75 mt2 unfinished (no roof) attached quincho behind it. The 150 mts2 includes about 20 mt2 exterior (covered) galaries. The area of the house does not include a garage.

Behind the house is a separate building with 97 mt2 covered space. It incluidas a laundryroom and a spacious garage as well as a 55 mt2 one bedroom apartment.

The house looks a lot like the one in this Mercado Libre publication, but I can't take a photo that shows the front of it because I planted so many trees in the front yard more than ten years ago:

Mercado Libre

Our house is about 170 sqm on two floors, plus a 20sqm quincho ("semi-cubierto", so polycarbonate roof but missing an external wall).

Our vision, well, mine at least, includes a smallish separate building at the back where I can keep gardening tools and also the in-laws, when they arrive. Might be done in autumn.

You haven't done badly for yourself!

 

[steveinbsas]

You haven't done badly for yourself!

Thanks.

 

[Quilombo]

A personal note: my apartment's expenses have ballooned from $ $95.521,24 pesos in January, 2024, to $348.677,02 in November.

Something very similar happened here. No security, no SUM, no pool, no quincho, nothing. I'm not paying $300 in expenses for literally nothing, it's more than renting an entire additional apartment. I gave my landlord notice, and her response was to be intentionally obtuse. I told her, nothing against her, I know it's not her fault and she doesn't set the expenses, but if I'm paying that much, I'd at least like a building with some perks.

We had to walk away from the lot we were purchasing, looking to see what we can recover or if we can sell our parcel, things are so expensive these days, but I don't have anywhere else to go.

My plan now is to hopefully save enough money over the next 2-3 years to put a downpayment on a house in GBA Sur, get my gun license, and move there.

 

[Goata]

Things may have been artificially cheap but prices aren't just "correcting", companies are trying to grab cash while they can in this crazy time. For example - how on earth is yoghurt made locally more expensive than yoghurt in the USA where salaries of the people making the yoghurt are 20x higher than here? Or gas - the USA gets its gas mostly from foreign countries and it's cheaper than the prices here at YPF where it is all mostly Argentinean gas.

I'm not just pulling this theory from my backside, I have friends here who own food companies and they told me point blank they just keep raising the prices because they can and are making more profit from it. It has nothing to do with correcting prices, and of course none of this profit trickles down to the workers in any way, the bosses keep all of it.

If prices here were now on par with Madrid, I would say that was "correcting". But we have far exceeded that, and are already at or exceeding US pricing, with local people here making much less than in Madrid, never mind the USA

Exactly, the fox is in the hen house and he has a chain saw!