Month: December 2019

What Does The Law Say About It?

Not a week goes by without me receiving several calls or messages having to do with Landlord abuse, among which failure to make timely and proper repairs to the property, pocketing the security retainer, among others.

This is a common and recurring scenario: Your landlord required you to pay thousands of dollars in cash upfront for either a 1 or 2-month rent payment plus a security deposit when leasing the property. Just as they hand over the keys, you are rushed o sign the lease and skip a “Move-In Inspection,” of course. After you move out, no matter how many days you spend scrubbing the place, the landlord does its own walk-through, conjuring any discrepancy they can muster in the place. It doesn’t matter if the discrepancy or rubbish existed when you moved in or not.

Continue reading When the Landlord Refuses to Make Repairs to the Leased Premises

I have been asked this multiple times, can I switch banks, the reason usually is to save money or to have a functional relationship with the bank (Bancomer is too expensive and bureaucratic, Banorte is slow as a snail, HSBC is not taking any more business and is hard to reach).

Well, it is possible to switch banks by replacing your current one but it is not going to be cheap.

Continue reading Switching Trust Banks