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  1. Oatmeal

    Grabr seasonal?

    How do you reconcile this if you are a local earning local salary? Its insane the price increase. Is it really $35.000 for a steak sandwich, because the exchange are is more or less 1 = 1000.
  2. Oatmeal

    Grabr seasonal?

    Friend flew down last week and me and him have been bitching about the price changes. He messaged me the other day showing the prices of a restaurant he went to last time he was here and the price was double. He travels quite a bit and now second guessing if he should go to Asia or Europe agian.
  3. Oatmeal

    Grabr seasonal?

    thanks this is good to know but IVA still 27% :( Prices have gone bonkers TBH.
  4. Oatmeal

    Grabr seasonal?

    Funny you mentioned strikes. I was looking at flights to Caracas. There were gaps where no flights we available. For the available flights, I would have to fly to Madrid then back to Caracas. This might be because of my destination but flight options sucks.
  5. Oatmeal

    Grabr seasonal?

    Curious for the people who have items shipped here, I have successfully used this app 3-4 months back. However, I have had open orders with no responses for the past 2 weeks. Are we in a off season for travelers to BA? Prior there would be multiple people responding to my offers daily.
  6. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    We spent 4 years in Colombia. Sadly I have a lifetime of stories.
  7. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    arggghh. I hate that.
  8. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    I will take everyone's advice and try to work with the landlord, if not I pay for this and deduct on the balance owing. However, if this is the way he behaves, its going to be a pain to get my deposit (2 months) and remind him that he agreed to deduct from the 9 months owning on the contract.
  9. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    This is helpful thank you.
  10. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    Could you explain what is a "Carta documento"? Is there a template? Is this simply a document stating my issues that need to be fixed and notarized?
  11. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    Hi. In the contract, the landlord lessor pays for repairs. Urgent is 24 hours and non-urgent is 10 days. We paid advance payment of 15 months on a 2 year contract. Is there some government/rental protection agency that can help? What is after the formal notice? I am not sure if the letter will...
  12. Oatmeal

    Question for renters.

    Hello. Currently renting a house. I have a couple of issues since I took ownership of the house. Main issue with the AC unit (not working well) and also the lock on some sliding doors (not functioning). There are other issues lower priority. The door not locking is a security issue. I have...
  13. Oatmeal

    Is buying a property and listing a fake price normal in Buenos Aires?

    First off congratulations moving towards home ownership in BA. This is something I plan on doing as well in the foreseeable future. However I want to state a couple of things. What the buyer is doing here is reassigning his obligations to you. At your expense/cost. While this might be common, in...
  14. Oatmeal

    Newcomer Starlink in Argentina

    I can't think of a time the service was down. As long as you have electricity, you will be fine. Cloudy days maybe 120MB which I noticed. Easy to set up and you use the app to find a place with no obstruction. You do it yourself. Placement of the dish is up to you.
  15. Oatmeal

    Newcomer Starlink in Argentina

    I bought my modem from Fravega. The ethernet adapter on mercardo libre, however I see many for sale on FB market place (at least when i was looking). You will need an adapter if you want to setup/use a wifi system because there are no network port in the standard setup. Last billed at $56.100...
  16. Oatmeal

    Day trip to Uruguay..

    Hello. An update. All good. Left for a day trip. Walked around and realized I was extemely bored and ended up taking an earlier departure time back to CABA (arrived around 2PM, ate some tacos and left at 430PM. No issues at all.
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    Newcomer Starlink in Argentina

    Hello. Yes. I have this service since July. Works great! It used to be consistently from Dish to modem with around 180-200MB. However I noticed about a little more than a month ago there was a software update. Dish to modem is now 280-300MB. So better download speeds. Upload is about 10% of DL...
  18. Oatmeal

    Day trip to Uruguay..

    Thanks everyone. Fingers crossed.
  19. Oatmeal

    Day trip to Uruguay..

    Great idea that you.
  20. Oatmeal

    Day trip to Uruguay..

    Hi. My tourist permit is expiring soon. I am planning 3 days prior to the last day to go to Uruguay on a day trip by boat. Leave in the morning and return at night. Anyone have an opinion on this? Any issues with the border run? I have already extended once so this would be 180 days already...
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