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Miguelito

Dec 2, 2003, 2:46 PM

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Not driving nor using movers, how do I do it?

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Read everything I could find on these forums, been to Rolly's site and read there. Would like to move to San Miguel de Allende in early Spring but will leave vehicle and rv here (I'm a fulltime rv-er). Using a mover is too expensive and I probably don't have enough stuff to fill a uhaul trailer, less than 1000 pounds but including satellite dish, desktop computer, clothing, HOUSECAT, portable tv, vcr, tools, few books, kitchen stuff, etc. but NO furniture. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thought about getting someone to drive up from SMA but don't know how to get the junk across the border at Laredo or Eagle Pass. I'm stumped! Thanks, Mike

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Miguelito

Dec 2, 2003, 2:48 PM

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Re: [mikelangford] On second thought

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If I have a valid FM3 can someone with same who's currently living in SMA come across and take my manaje back? Mike

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lbc

Dec 2, 2003, 3:05 PM

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I have a great broker contact for you in Pharr, Texas who will handle your menaje stuff and even store it for you until you or he can get a truck to haul it to SM. Write me privately and I tell you how I did it 2 months ago. You wrote me once already, remember?

go to my profile and write me privately because I don't want to bore all these estimated readers with this.

Carol Schmidt

Dec 2, 2003, 3:24 PM

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Re: [mikelangford] Not driving nor using movers, how do I do it?

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I strongly doubt someone else can bring in your stuff on your menaje on your FM3, and I know that your satellite dish won't work in SMA--the one we got through DISH is larger than the pizza-sized one we had on our RV for the 3 1/2 years we were full-time RVers, though smaller than the huge one we used to have in the olden days.

I also know that you couldn't drive a U-Haul down here across the border with your stuff anyway--you'd have to transfer to a Mexican truck or use an international shipping/moving company which can make the border arrangements.

Why are you leaving your vehicle behind? It would seem the best way for you to bring your small amount of stuff. And there are two RV parks in SMA, though not of the style you are probably accustomed to in the US.

As for your cat, you do know that you must have a current International Health Certificate for any animal you bring across, even though we have had them and have never had to show them at any crossing with the animals. That one time we might have to show the certificates and might not have them would be too risky, we love our pets too much.

Once you get the certificate you have only a short time to get to the border, a few days, so we get ours the morning we are to leave (tell your vet you will need it ahead of time so he or she will have a form available) and drive directly to the border at Laredo.

We drive in the States as long as we can because of the difficulty we have had finding hotels that will take a dog in Mexico, and we have heard of personal stories from people who tried to sneak a dog into a Mexican hotel and were evicted in the middle of the night with no refund when their dog barked and they were discovered. (Our little Shih Tzu is a yapper.)

Others on MexConnect have posted names of hotels they have found take dogs--the only one on the route from Laredo to SMA that we found listed on the internet was the Holiday Inn in San Luis Potosi. I had to go to the manager and cry and tell him about the internet listing that dogs were allowed before we were allowed in with our dog. But with a cat you should have less problems, they're more easy to sneak in and don't bark. (Hope it's not a talkative Siamese!)

Other than that, I don't know what to tell you.

Carol Schmidt

lbc

Dec 2, 2003, 3:31 PM

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I was asked to post it. So I do. Hi, there,Mike yes, in retrospect, that is how I would do it right from the get-go: Get your load to Pharr, TX. to the company called called Amermex, freight forwarders. THe guy's name is German Perez. Address: 9010 Goliad Rd,, Pharr, TX 78577. Tel. 956 783 5588. Fax 956 783 5589. Tell him Lisa (from Victoria who recently used his services, says hi and that I recommended him to you.) Now this is what you do. You bring your precisely packed menaje boxes and documents to him. THey have to be perfect, mind you. Whatever is in the boxes, must show up on the menaje. If you have things listed on the menaje that are no longer in the boxes, that does not matter. It is the other way around, that matters. He will unload your load onto his dock and examine it pretty carefully against the written menaje. That cost is about 300$ for aload as you describe which is similar, very similar to what I had. Yhe only large item fore me was a washing machine. I am glad I have it, because they are so expensive here. THen, if you wish to use a truck, he can get you one. For about 1000$, a trucker that I used through him, will deliver you goods to San Miguel. You might need a bodega there to store it until you know what you are going to do with it. It is important that you get at truck that can haul everything on ONE load. A menaje is a one-time allowance, and can not be broken up in shifts. I will be in SM full-time beginning Jan 1. If I can help you on that end, let me know. I could find a bodega (storage) for you. So, remember for 1,300 to 1,500 you get your menaje across the border and all the way to San Miguel. If I can be of help, I have a Ford Explorer and a little trailer that I am having built this week. I can help you haul things also. Bring everything that's on the menaje. I am glad I brought all I did. I am planning on bartering or selling some items, but I would not want to buy so much of that stuff here. It is expensive and the quality is not the same. The only thing that's cheap is food, and service labor, but no parts or products that we take for granted. Also, if I have the land when you come, I will construct it so that I can rent out to RV'rs at a reasonable "non-San Miguel" prices. I want to make something available to ordinary, "normal" retirees.

shrimp281

Dec 3, 2003, 2:30 PM

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Re: [mikelangford] Not driving nor using movers, how do I do it?

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Hard to do it with out a menaje. They stop every car that looks fat. As far as that satellite dish not working, if you have Direct TV, it will work South of the Border, but you will not get every channel, lose about 15 to 20%.