Brad Billingsley, an American retiree living at Calafia Condos, talks about why he chose to retire to Mexico and why he chose Calafia Condos.
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Whale watching at Calafia Condos. Right from our Sales Office at Calafia Condos in Rosarito Beach, Baja California. Book a tour and see the whales!
For more information on Calafia Condos visit http://www.calafiacondos.com
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The Baja Real Estate Group hosts prospect buyers and Agents from Sampson California Realty at Calafia Condos Resort & Villas.
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Over the last 20 years, Calafia Condos, Resort and Villas has matured into one of Baja’s most desirable places to live. More than __ American and Canadian expatriates call Calafia home and enjoy a myriad of on-site amenities as well as lush outdoor spaces.
Calafia Condos
Calafia Condos is undergoing minor renovations to better the property, including repaving the streets and the addition of a fenced-in dog run. Located next to the private boardwalk, Calafia residents and guests can enjoy the lapping waves of the Pacific Ocean while their dogs stretch their legs and run around without leashes just steps from their back doors.
Calafia Condos, Resort and Villas is known for its picturesque 180-degree views of the horizon. Residents also enjoy a host of recreational amenities, including direct beach access, oceanfront swimming pool, private men’s and women’s whirlpool spas, exercise room and gym, tennis court, game room, fire pit, basketball court, a 14 seat movie theater, sauna and steam rooms.
Just south of the historic city of Rosarito Beach and only 30 minutes south of the San Diego border, the nearby town of Calafia is home to charming shops, restaurants, clubs, art galleries, golf courses and more. Baja’s famed wine country is only a 40-minute drive and Puerto Nuevo’s lobster village is only a 5-minute drive away.
Baja Real Estate Group staffs the new-home information center at Calafia Condos. The representatives provide guidance to specifically assist U.S. residents in purchasing real estate in Mexico, and provide experts in the areas of title insurance, performance bond services and real estate law. Call toll free 1-866-CALAFIA or click on www.calafiacondos.com for details
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Otay Mesa, Calif. — Beginning Monday, May 2, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will open a new Ready Lane at the Otay Mesa port of entry for travelers who have a travel document enabled with Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, technology.
The Ready Lane is a lane for vehicle traffic that only accepts RFID-enabled cards. The new Ready Lane at the Otay Mesa border crossing will be open Monday through Friday from 4 a.m. until 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. In order to use this dedicated lane, all adult passengers in the vehicle over the age of 16 must present an approved travel card. The U.S. Passport Card, SENTRI card, the new Legal Permanent Resident “green card” and the new Border Crossing Card are all RFID-enabled documents.
Ready Lane
For example, the Ready Lane can be used by a group of travelers in one vehicle who may have different kinds of RFID-enabled travel documents, such as if the driver is a member of the SENTRI trusted traveler program, and the passengers all have other kinds of RFID-enabled documents, such as a U.S. Passport Card or a new Border Crossing Card. While only vehicles with all SENTRI members can use the dedicated SENTRI lane, a group with any mixture of RFID-enabled travel cards can use the Ready Lane.
Travelers using the Ready Lane should follow these three simple steps as they approach a U.S. land port of entry with their RFID-enabled travel card:
• Stop at the beginning of the lane and make sure each passenger has their card out.
• When it is your turn, drive slowly through the lane and hold all cards up on the driver’s side of the vehicle.
• Stop at the officer’s booth.
If you are thinking in moving to Mexico, don’t think more act today. We Can Help. Call today 858-433-0561 or email miguel.sedano@owninginmexico.com the perfect home is waiting for you.
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We want to inform everyone of two exciting new developments in progress at
Calafia.
The long awaited dog run is well along towards completion. In case you
haven’t seen it yet, it is located just south of the clubhouse pool. There
is a path from the clubhouse visitors parking up to a gate. The area is
almost completely fenced off, it has been cleaned of debris, and graded
flat. Grass is still to be installed and a box of dog bags and a trash can
is forthcoming. We think it is the only ocean front dog park in the worldJ
Second, there are new homeowners in T3 who are professional fitness trainers
and owned a “trendy” gym in Orange County. They are providing additional
exercise equipment in the T3 fitness center. We understand this will
include a full set of barbells, a hoist commercial quality multi-station
weight training apparatus, a Pilates machine and a mirrored wall and
equipment to install the Bar Method workout. [This creates a uniquely lean,
firm, sculpted body by combining the muscle-shaping principles of
isometrics, the body-elongating practice of dance conditioning, the science
of physical therapy and the intense pace of interval training into a
powerful exercise format that quickly and safely reshapes and elongates
muscles.They plan to offer personal training to anyone interested.
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Greetings Calafia neighbors and friends,
It has been a few weeks since we were down in Calafia. This weekend (in late September) summer arrived. The weather was perfect. We walked over to Calafia hotel and discovered a new and delicious dish called “toridos.” It is Chile stuffed with Marlin. If you love spicy food this is for you. We got to watch Dolphins play and have this guest at our table.
We got to watch Dolphins play and have this guest at our table.
Later on we watched the sun set from the Keiser's beautiful PH unit.
Followed by a viewing of, what we established (thanks to our IPADs and Droids) to be Jupiter.
September and October are awesome months in Baja! Come on down!
Marilyn K. Simon, Ph.D.
Online Faculty Mentor
Del Mar, CA
Calafia Mexico
mksimon@earthlink.net
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By Kathleen Kirkwood
Brad Billingsley and his wife Linda
Brad Billingsley could have been waiting for his tee time at an Arizona golf course.
Instead, the former Lafayette resident and his wife Linda were in a lagoon off Cabo San Lucas, snapping photos of gray whales bobbing next to their small charter boat.
“Every day, it’s an adventure here,” Brad Billingsley said. “It’s added 20 years to my life.”
Brad, 62, and Linda Billingsley, 61, are among the “silver surge” of baby boomers seeking alternative retirement nests in Mexico, according to a recent report by the International Community Foundation.
It’s not certain how many U.S. retirees are living in Mexico — a 2004 study puts it between 500,000 and 600,000 — but the foundation and other researchers say the number is bound to increase as more boomers settle into their golden years and find Mexico an affordable alternative. Almost half the retirees living in coastal areas are getting by comfortably on less than $1,000 per month, said the report, which cites the growth of real estate projects targeted at retirees as proof that expatriates are flocking south of the border.
The Billingsleys had seriously considered a retirement community with a golf course in central Arizona. But they lacked the enthusiasm for fairway living that seemed to consume retirees there. “Their entire lives were involved with golf,” Brad Billingsley said.
In 2007, the couple became expatriates and settled into a $300,000, two-bedroom beachfront condominium in Rosarito Beach, in Baja California.
They’ve made the most out of their retirement dollars, Brad Billingsley said. The cost of living — from groceries to health care — is low in their beachfront town and there’s plenty to do, such as driving down the coast to Cabo, walking on the beach and shopping at the local mercado. Read the rest of this entry »
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Living In Mexico
When you realize that Mexican Real Estate is your best investment for your retirement with a saving of up to 30-40% on your cost of living, you need to then explore not only what area of Mexico you will live or eventually live.
You will also need to explore which community fits your lifestyle. Who are your neighbors and what amenities fit you or even your family. After all, when you live in Mexico, friends and family don’t just come for dinner they come for the weekend. You become their Mexico vacation.
Other common questions are: how close are the markets? How accessible is health care? What is the status of the Home Owners Association? Is it well funded? Well run? Reasonable CC&R’S, and of course is it a safe investment.
This is when you realize that you need not only a long time established Broker with years of experience in Mexican Real Estate, but you need a Broker with years of living in the area and that is also part of the community. A good Brokerage will keep their agents trained and updated on the market, different communities and new developments, starting pre-sale or already delivering. A good Brokerage will make sure that every buyer or seller their agents takes on, they will be well represented and informed with the good or bad.
Most of all you need an experienced and knowledgeable Broker when choosing your Brokerage. Kathy Katz & Max Katz have more than 19 years living and doing business in Mexico, they have become the most trusted names in Baja real estate as well as their Agents.
Contact a Baja Real Estate Group Agent today and see the difference yourself. A group of agents that exclusively represent Baja’s best real estate developments, who have inventory to sell in some of the best ocean front communities in the area. If you are currently working with an Agent, this is not intended for solicitation, just information. We gladly work with all Brokers and Agents.
Thinking about a long term Baja rental before you buy? Or just to explore what the Baja lifestyle is like on a long term basis? Contact us about our rent to own listings.
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Deciding to invest in a foreign real estate market can be a scary decision when the construction projects is finished and even when they are turn key ready, a lot of uncertainty and doubts arise when it comes to purchasing real estate outside of your home country; this uneasiness only increases when there is partial or no actual construction assuring the investor of their purchase.
Costal Baja has long been a preferred choice of retirement, relocation or vacation for Americans who want the lower cost beach front living experience, and the closeness to the US. This brought a growing number of real estate developers to Northern Baja, and construction of resort communities designed for expatriates were being developed all along the coast.
Since the slowdown of the real estate market in the US, several construction projects in Baja slowed down or completely stopped in the past year; as a result of this some of developers refunded the investment partially or completely, others transferred the property to another development, but still a number of investors were left with out money and property.
With all of these less than reassuring stories you are left with uncertainty and doubt. What then, are you to do if have your heart set in purchasing a home in Baja?
As with everything, the best advice any one can give, is to do your homework. When interested on investing on pre-construction and pre-sale developments, a few of the questions to be answered should be the following:
- Who is the developer heading the project?
- How many years have they been in business?
- What other projects have they finished and what is the quality they have presented?
Proper research to answer these questions along with a reputable Mexican real estate broker with experience in pre-construction and pre-sale can bring pace of mind to what otherwise could be a daunting experience.
Two of the developments along Baja’s coast which have continued construction through these tough times, are Calafia Condos Resort and Villas and Palacio del Mar ; the first a well known community in expansion, the second a new development promising luxury at every turn.
Grupo PES, with more than 25 years of experience is one of México’s leading real estate development companies; they have completed projects both beautiful and elegant in central Mexico such as Villas del Lago Residencial, six apartment towers within an old hacienda complex. Residencial Insurgentes 116, a 14 story 76 unit high rise in Mexico City, is also one of their recent developments completed in 2006.
Their current Baja real estate project, Palacio del Mar, located just 10 minutes from downtown Rosarito, has not stalled construction since it began on spring 2006. As a manner of giving peace of mind to prospect buyers, it should be noted that Palacio has escrow. This complex has been designed to provide a lifestyle of unparalleled luxury surrounded by the breathtaking landscape of Baja. This complex offers a 25000 sq. ft. club house and a granite bottom indoor pool as well as a movie theater and business center among many more amenities.
Calafia Condos and Villas, a long established community that Grupo Gor and his partners began in the early 1990’s with the construction of the first tower, since then it has grown to a complex of 2 condos towers and 35 villas, all of which sold out and were delivered with title. The current construction is for the third condo tower, one of the fast moving projects on the coast, as part of the expansion of this community which now includes a new ocean front club house, ocean front pool and a gymnasium; this expansion is also said to bring a conference room, game room and putting green to the many amenities this resort community already offers.
Slowly but surely, the economy will recover, and with this will come a new development boom in Baja with its share of success and discouraging stories. None of that though will take away from the beauty of the region and the peace and nourishment it can bring to resident and visitor alike. Information is the best tool everybody has at their disposal as well as the choice to seek and make use of it.
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