Friday, June 15, 2018

Last night I only got up once, woke up at 5:30 when Teresa got up, fell back asleep, and woke/got up at 6:45.

Teresa told me something about John can’t read the contract so we need to get it translated!?  A few minutes later she informs me that we – with John? Without John? - are all going to have breakfast at Carbon de Leña and then he’s going to read – and sign? – the contract.  We’re going to leave the apt sometime around 8 to 8:30.

Now I understand we are having breakfast about 8:15 and John will join us about 9am to go over the contract.

We all left the apt at 8:15, I picked up newspapers on the way, and we had breakfast at Carbon de Leña.  John joined us for coffee at 9am.  He had his motorcycle helmet with him so now we know how he gets around.  He mentioned that last week he bought a Jeep Willys from the 1960s.

John is from Calgary Canada and he speaks Spanish fluently after living in the Dominican Republic for 5 years followed by some years in Colombia and Ecuador.  After ping ponging back and forth between CO and EC (6 months max each) he made an arrangement with a Colombiana.  They got married and he gets residency and she gets her own business (or part of his?).

He now has his own tourist business in Medellin.  He said Medellin is going through a tourism explosion.  He mentioned that there is an activity park, unknown to most, just 2 miles from the finca.  He discussed with Laura her becoming either a tour guide or scheduling tours which would be mostly done using Whatsapp on her cellphone.

Teresa and John discussed the rental contract for the finca and Laura made multiple trips to the copy center to print out copies of the contract.  We finally got everything right and left.  At the notary we got there just at noon as they closed for an hour for lunch.  We walked to La Casita Parilla where we each had a nice lunch with juice.  We went to the apt where Teresa made café con leche.  About 2pm we returned to the notary where we quickly got everything signed and notarized.

When John returns with the cash we will give him the keys to the finca and they can start moving in their things.

Later Laura told me she’s interested more in being an au pair than working for John.  At least now I know what her priority is.

Among new US movie releases, I would like to see Tag (7.2), Gotti (6.4), Pablo (6.2), and maybe Eating Animals (6.8).

Locally, Ocean’s 8 (6.3) is playing at Oviedo at 4pm and Vizcaya at 1pm and 3:20pm; Please Stand By (6.7) is playing at 1pm and 3:30 at Oviedo.

Teresa leaves early tomorrow for the finca so I might see Please Stand By (6.7) tomorrow at Oviedo.

John arrived at 6:30 and he gave us the cash and Teresa gave him a receipt.  I understand she’ll give him a set of keys when she sees him tomorrow.  So now we have a contract for a renter from July 1^st this year through June of 2019.  There is a good possibility he might renew the contract next year or even consider buying.

Teresa and I left the apt at 6:45 and walked down to Home Center where she bought some building supplies for the finca.  We took a taxi back to the apt.  Laura left at 8:30 dressed up like she’s got a hot date.

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