It is time to renew our FM3's so we got together the documents that we thought we needed and headed to immigration. This year they told us that we needed a rental contract. This is our third year for our FM3's and we have never needed to provide that before, so home we came. We chatted with our landlord about it and we typed up a document, signed it and took it back to the office. The lady looked at it and said, "no sirve", in other words, no doggone good. lol. Back home we came and chatted again with the landlord. At this point Tropical Storm Jimena intervened and things came to a standstill for awhile. The landlord said he was talking to a notario or a licenciado but nothing was happening, so we explained that we needed this to happen quickly. After we explained the circumstances more completely things started to happen and Saturday morning we went with them to an office of a licenciado and after hanging around for awhile we were presented with the stamped documents ready to sign. We got them photocopied and presented them to immigration on Monday morning and hopefully our FM3's will be ready in a month or so.......
A month or so ago the landlord was getting his air conditioners (mini splits) cleaned and recharged so we had them do ours too. Ever since then both of them have been spitting out water droplets to the point that it was extremely annoying and messy, along with that the bedroom one developed a horrible sound in the fan. So yesterday we got the name of a fellow from my Spanish teacher and she phoned him for us while we were chatting to her. He showed up in the afternoon and looked at them and said he would return in the afternoon when his worker finished his job on the shrimp boat. Sure enough later on they returned. He looked at them and decided that the post holding the fan in the bedroom one was broken, probably from being forced on by the previous guys. At first they were going to replace it with a used one; but found out that the used one that they had was smaller than ours, so no go with that. He then said that they could either try and glue the post back in or we could buy a new fan. We chose to have them try and fix it. They disappeared and reappeared with some crazy glue and baking soda lol. They put the post in glued it, sprinkled it with the baking soda and voila it was in there hard as a rock. Too funny and ingenious. Back into the mini split it went and quiet as a mouse it works. The one in the living room they decided that the previous guys had cleaned the exterior of the coils but not the inside and so the water was not draining properly. He had a small pressurized hand sprayer and re cleaned it. Put it all back together, had a glass of coke with us and chatted about the price of shrimp while we waited to see if there was any water coming out, nada (none). Asked him what the bill was and he rubbed his head and thought for a minute, mumbling to himself about what they had done (they were here about 2 hrs.). After some deliberation he decided that the charge was 500 pesos. No problem, we paid and they left. This morning both air conditioners are still working fine, thank goodness. Before anyone asks me for this guys phone number, remember that neither of them speaks any English, so be prepared to do business in Spanish.
A big surprise this morning, a front end loader appeared and began to repair the damage to our street. I didn't expect this to happen for a long time as there are many areas in the city that are in much worse shape. We actually didn't mind as there was no traffic and it was nice and quiet. Anyway he fixed it up and it is drivable again.
