Hypothetically speaking, supposing you’re a blogger whose blog focuses on Cuba and Cuban issues and is anti-castro.
Hypothetically speaking, supposing your wife is a realtor specializing in high end residential real estate in Miami.
Hypothetically speaking, supposing your wife gets an email from a client that states the following:
I noticed your husband has a website based on cuba and you’re a realtor. Now that doesn’t mean that you have an in on cuban real estate, but I was looking to purchase some oceanfront property or a private island off the coast of cuba. Do you have any opportunities there or do you know where I would begin to look? Thanks!
Hypothetically speaking, what would your response be?
Of course you have, and there is that bridge in Brooklyn…
Val,
These “hypothetical” situations happen to many of us … some people just have a hard time putting two and two together … maybe due to no common sense or mental challenges … I would dismiss it. It’s not worth a “response”.
I wish you well! 🙂 Melek
“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”~ John Tillotson
Hypothetically — and sarcastically, of course — I’d ask the client if after I helped with the property I could lend a hand with his slave trade business. Pricks.
Sell him Cayo Desengano. He’ll find out soon enough what its name means.
Is Ms. Prieto a REALTOR? I didn’t know- hey…if you know anybody moving to the Atlanta area, count on this Accredited Buyer’s Rep, who would gladly pay a 25% referral fee 😉
Ok, sorry for the infommercial- I think I owe Val some dough for the advertising space –
Back to the topic-I think is probably somebody trying to stir some trouble…or some REALLY dumb guy-
My response would be….
“What you request is in violation of the Federal Trading with the Enemy Act which is a felony under U.S. law. I choose to obey the law. How about some oceanfront property in Key Biscayne?”
Tell him to wait a couple days(?), months(?), pending a certain rumor to be confirmed.
I’d tell him to read my blog and then, if still interested, respond what Mike or Yoan said.
Tell ’em you’d be happy to be of help AFTER doing a background/due diligence check on them and contacting Treasury … just to be on the safe side.
Sound like they need a lawyer. And brain surgery.
VAL,
DIDN’T KNOW THE WIFE WAS A REALTOR. I AM A BROKER FROM L.A. WITH THE MEDIAN HOME PRICES IN CALIFORNIA BEING OVER $550,000, EVERYONE HERE SPECIALIZES IN HIGH-END REAL ESTATE.
I WOULD TELL THIS COME BOLA THAT SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY LISTINGS IN CUBA AS OF RIGHT NOW BUT SHE DOES HAVE SOME NICE OCEAN FRONT PROPERTIES IN ARIZONA AND ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE MEXICO.
Being originally from Brooklyn I would ask your wife to refer that person to me where I can interest them in a historic bridge in a prime location off the east side of Manhattan.
This is a capitalist society, and the hypothetical wife is in profit making capitalist business. Sell the island, make the commission. The seller (castro) would have to honor the contract. Yeah, right!
You know when Kasstro is done in Cuba?
When we receive mails like this:
GOOD SIR,
I AM THE DAUGHTER OF RAUL CASTRO, AND I HAVE 30 MILLION DOLLARS IN A CUBAN BANK ACCOUNT…
i’d say:
“fidelito, no jodas mas y acaba de morirte, hijo de la gran …..”
I know the Mrs., she doesn’t need our help. Chances are however she handled this…well that buyer is not looking for Cuban real estate in Miami tonight.
Tell her, to say that the investments are very risky now, but that it is anticipated that conditions will change drastically for the better, and there should be opportunities available in the near future. That preliminary work can start now……and to please send a fee to the author of this post.
NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! Val, I hope you didn’t miss a great opportunity to educate someone on the realities of Cuba.
There are so many people who are ignorant (I don’t mean this as an insult… I just mean “Uninformed”) about Cuba. It’s our job, as educated, intelligent people in the exile, to spread awarenes of the harsh realities of Cuba, as well as the consequences — ethical, financial, political — of investing in Cuba. It’s a bad deal no matter how you look at it.
But we have to approach clueless people like this, not with disdain or aggressiveness, but with an sincere heart (yo soy un hombre sincero) and educate, educate, educate.
Otherwise… we becomebb the “hard-liner extremists” the New York Times says we are.