Negotiating a real estate minefield
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‘Don’t bring me narcos,’ the landlady told the real estate agent. She was ready to rent out her three-bedroom house in an affluent section of Mexico City’s Polanco neighborhood. But she wasn’t about to hand it over to a tenant bankrolled by illicit means. I’m not a narco, I assured everyone concerned. And I passed on the house. (Mostly because it was kind of ugly and boxy, but her attitude didn’t help.) Renting property in Mexico City exposes a prospective tenant to a lot more than credit checks. God forbid you should be narco adjacent.
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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City