A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.

Steve

"Steve B" wrote:

A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.


Friend, her, and travel far away. You married?

Wes
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"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

On Nov 29, 4:23*pm, "Steve B" wrote:
A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. *Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.

Steve

I would not make her ask twice. I would be afraid that I would not
want to come back to the US after a visit!

On 11/29/2010 04:23 PM, Steve B wrote:
A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.
She wants to move there, or is this a vacation place? If vacation,
unless she is going to be there once a month, do anything to deter her
from this. Owning property thousands of miles from where you work and
live is a REALLY bad idea, unless you are in the travel or real estate
business, and it is your client who is doing the buying. This whole
vacation home in Honduras or Costa Rica thing is just the new time share
scam. Check eBay, etc. for all the people trying to unload the
timeshares they bought last decade! Or, the people trying to unload
vacation condos they bought in the 1980's and are STILL trying to
unload! There's a scam like this every decade that drags in the suckers
with all sorts of romantic images, but about 90% of the buyers end up
being REALLY sorry.

Jon

On 2010-11-30, Jon Elson wrote:
On 11/29/2010 04:23 PM, Steve B wrote:
A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.
She wants to move there, or is this a vacation place? If vacation,
unless she is going to be there once a month, do anything to deter her
from this. Owning property thousands of miles from where you work and
live is a REALLY bad idea, unless you are in the travel or real estate
business, and it is your client who is doing the buying. This whole
vacation home in Honduras or Costa Rica thing is just the new time share
scam. Check eBay, etc. for all the people trying to unload the
timeshares they bought last decade! Or, the people trying to unload
vacation condos they bought in the 1980's and are STILL trying to
unload! There's a scam like this every decade that drags in the suckers
with all sorts of romantic images, but about 90% of the buyers end up
being REALLY sorry.

I could not agree more, this is stupid under most imaginable
circumstances, with a possible exception of a true distress sale. If
there are salesmen involved, it is not a distress sale.

I remembered how my wife convinced me to go to a sale presentation for
a timeshare. The bait was a free bottle of wine. What is amazing, is
that I had to talk my way out of it, was somehow accused of being a
bad and inconsistent person because I would not sign the contract. And
that was, considering that I had the money, salesman had absolutely
nothing as a leverage, but I still felt pressured!

i

"Ignoramus32174" wrote in message
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On 2010-11-30, Jon Elson wrote:
On 11/29/2010 04:23 PM, Steve B wrote:
A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.
She wants to move there, or is this a vacation place? If vacation,
unless she is going to be there once a month, do anything to deter her
from this. Owning property thousands of miles from where you work and
live is a REALLY bad idea, unless you are in the travel or real estate
business, and it is your client who is doing the buying. This whole
vacation home in Honduras or Costa Rica thing is just the new time share
scam. Check eBay, etc. for all the people trying to unload the
timeshares they bought last decade! Or, the people trying to unload
vacation condos they bought in the 1980's and are STILL trying to
unload! There's a scam like this every decade that drags in the suckers
with all sorts of romantic images, but about 90% of the buyers end up
being REALLY sorry.

I could not agree more, this is stupid under most imaginable
circumstances, with a possible exception of a true distress sale. If
there are salesmen involved, it is not a distress sale.

I remembered how my wife convinced me to go to a sale presentation for
a timeshare. The bait was a free bottle of wine. What is amazing, is
that I had to talk my way out of it, was somehow accused of being a
bad and inconsistent person because I would not sign the contract. And
that was, considering that I had the money, salesman had absolutely
nothing as a leverage, but I still felt pressured!

i

You should see the episode of South Park where the parents all end up being
held hostage at a ski resort time share presentation. It is priceless.

"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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On 11/29/2010 04:23 PM, Steve B wrote:
A friend wants me to go with her to look at some property available on
Barbados. Your thoughts, travel experiences appreciated.
She wants to move there, or is this a vacation place? If vacation, unless
she is going to be there once a month, do anything to deter her from this.
Owning property thousands of miles from where you work and live is a
REALLY bad idea, unless you are in the travel or real estate business, and
it is your client who is doing the buying. This whole vacation home in
Honduras or Costa Rica thing is just the new time share scam. Check eBay,
etc. for all the people trying to unload the timeshares they bought last
decade! Or, the people trying to unload vacation condos they bought in
the 1980's and are STILL trying to unload! There's a scam like this every
decade that drags in the suckers with all sorts of romantic images, but
about 90% of the buyers end up being REALLY sorry.

Jon

I own vacation rentals in Las Vegas. This friend of the family has come
into a sizeable inheritance, and wants to evaluate vacation rentals in a few
various places as a place to live that provides income streams. Personally,
I'm trying to steer her to Kauai. But she was once in Barbados, and is
somewhat adamant on that idea.

I do reserve analysis for HOA's, and would not ever buy a timeshare or
condo. I can trade a month's vacation rental on Kauai for less than two
weeks for one of my Vegas houses. A friend of mine has a timeshare in
Lawai, Kauai, and I have been there twice. I love Kauai.

Go to vrbo.com and look around the world for what you can rent these days.
And they are dropping the prices for cash.

Steve