Making money is always nice and in Mexico it is important. My original plan was to open a little lunch room with a retail shop attached. But that would take a lot of money up front if I started out with a retail shop and restaurant. So I looked for a job to earn the money to invest.
One job lead to another and I ended up working for a medical tourism company. I like it but it is not what I want to do every day of my life. This is total commission - which I am very comfortable with because I have always done commission base since I was in my late 20's. However, I am use to having a little more control over determining the income I make. With this job, the income is a percent of a cost for a medical procedure. With real estate you take the price of a house and a percent on that - you have your commission. You want higher commissions, sell higher priced homes. Simple. Well this has all sorts of variables that I can not predict or see ahead of time. Where you have the operation makes a difference in the commission. The type of operation makes a difference in the commission and so on and on. Hence have no clue how to figure out an income to shoot for. I am looking at other jobs.
I still want my restaurant and retail shop. But how to pull it off. Well I have a dear friend that is a Mexican and he can do business in Mexico in a way that I can not. The Mexican government does not make it easy or even nice for an American to have a business and earn money here. But it is possible. If I use my friend who is Mexican to register the business and get the tax ID number then it will be simple. However, I need a contract between him and I and that will cost about $200.00 us dollars.
These are some of the items that I want to sell.
Once a year in Patzcuaro there is a fair where all the indigenous artisan come to the main plaza and set up shop for about one week long. That is where I want to travel and pick up about $400.00 dollars worth of goods and bring them back to sell here in Puerto Vallarta.
There are tons and tons of shops in Puerto Vallarta that sell stuff to tourist, but nothing of this quality and they are outrageously priced. I think I can mark these items up four times the cost of the item.
So here is the plan. I go shopping and come home and Rick sells these and we find out just how they sell and how much to mark them up from purchase price. We save the money for the next trip and purchase and do it again making an extra profit to save for a building down the road. But time and experience will be the trainer here.
We had a wonderful time last week at the beach. We went with some friends. Most Mexicans do not know how to swim. They love the water but never venture out very far. We went down to the beach here in Bucerias and there is always a strong under tow here.
After the beach because I live so close, we just came over to the house and we fixed some dinner. We rolled up the rug and danced and just had a wonderful time. I took Rick and his family home and then the neighbors dog attacked me. There was this lab and they are always so friendly I just bent down to pet him. Well this one was not so friendly.
Then we all went to the hospital and they cleaned out the bits and Ken and I started home after dropping them off for the second time. On the way home Ken wanted a burger, so I stopped to get him one and he locked the car up before I got my keys out.
This is Sunday evening at ten o'clock in the evening. It took till midnight (all the time I was bleeding all over) to get the door opened up. Got home at one o'clock in the morning.
Now I know I have asked this question before but really can't I just leave my home some day and not have some kind of adventure.? I sure named this blog correctly. Maybe I should change the name of this blog to donna and kens calm and quiet life in Mexico? Think it would help?
Until we met again this is Butch, Donna and Ken wishing you the best.
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