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Arizona Realtor Licensing Renewathon in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point)

The C. David McVay School is traveling to Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) in May to conduct renewal courses for Arizona Realtor licensing. From May 7 through May 10, C. David McVay will hold two real estate continuing education classes per day at the Sonoran Sky on Sandy Beach.  All courses are approved by the Arizona Department of Real Estate.

This is a great opportunity for Arizona realtors to travel to Puerto Peñasco to help satisfy their Arizona continuing education requirements, reacquaint themselves with Puerto Peñasco and to enjoy some time in Mexico.  It is also a great opportunity for Puerto Peñasco realtors who are also licensed in Arizona to satisfy their continuing education requirements. 

Information on registration and travel arrangements can be found here.  Early registration with reduced fees ends April 15th.  (Hat tip to Bill Barvitski for this news)

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Here is a nice article courtesy of AZ Central that spotlights the continued growth in Rocky Point and Rocky Point reservations.  Clearly, things continue to get better and better for Puerto-Penasco.  With the addition of the Sonoran Sky resort, new airport and freeways moving right along as planned, Rocky Point is poised for more growth.  To read the article click here

 

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The Puerto-penasco.com staff would like to share this article about two very nice and family owned restaurants.  We overlooked adding this article back in November and if you are planning to visit Rocky Point and are looking for something authentic and good, read about these restaurants. Some of the members in our staff went to eat there with their family and they were very happy with the food and service!

2 Puerto Peñasco dining treasures

Selina Schuh Dopp
Special for The Republic
Nov. 9, 2007 12:59 PM

PUERTO PEÑASCO, Sonora - Finding a good restaurant in Rocky Point can be tricky. You either can end up in a tourist trap, eating poor imitations of familiar foods, or you can find a place so authentic that all you can order are brains and innards.

What if you want local flavor without deviating too much from the familiar?

Two restaurants near the fish market in Old Town fill the bill. Though many restaurants along the water serve decent fare, the constant pressure to hire mariachis ruins the enjoyment of the meal and the relaxation you might experience from the sound of crashing waves. More tranquil settings are available a stone's throw away. Leave the bustling main street behind and walk one block up the hill.
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There are so many websites out there trying to advertise rentals by owners for Rocky Point that the market seems over saturated.  Today, I ran into what I think is the best website for rentals by owner I have seen in years.  The website is www.rprentalsbyowner.com.  If you are an owner and you are looking for ways to market your condo, this is the solution.  It is such a creative and efficient way to showcase properties..

Check out some of the listings by visiting the urls below:

Sonoran Sun - Las Palmas - Princesa  

 

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This is the beginning of the busy season in Rocky Point.  With the new changes in requirements to return to the USA, it is important to make sure you are properly equipped.  Here is an article courtesy of KTAR.com that reviews the documentaion that you should have.  Click here to read the article......  
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Sandbar Paradise Beach Club is Rocky Point’s Newest Party Destination Puerto Penasco,

Sonora, Mexico  February 18, 2008 – Sandbar Paradise Beach Club brings a new level of appeal to the heart of Rocky Point. In fact, Sandbar is the umbrella name for three distinct hotspots: a fun sports cantina, an outdoor palapa bar with volleyball, and an open air dance club. La Culebra, a Latin cover band, makes the Sandbar Cantina swell with locals and visitors alike every Saturday night starting at 9pm.  The Cantina has been quietly stunning customers with some of the most exciting food found in Rocky Point. Victor the bartender impresses vacationers with his charm and his unique spin on common drinks.  

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Here is a nice write-up from the Houston Chronicle.  It profiles a recent trip to Rocky Point as well as the potential of Rocky Point as a resort destination.  This is good press as it really exposes the fact that Rocky Point has a broader reach than just Arizona.  The author stayed at the Sonoran Sun Resort.

Here is the link

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/travel/5466350.html

 

 

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If you hate the wait at the border on Sundays. Las Palmas Beachfront Resort is currently offering Sunday night for 1/2 price during March and April.   This allows you to avoid the Sunday wait, relax another day and come home when the border is more user-friendly. 

 


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To those cappuccino lovers with a sweet tooth!...Churros and Burros.  Yes, this is the place. It has many other types of food but I was amazed by the taste of their original churro (cinnamon sugar, they also have churros with fillings) and their Vanilla Capuccino!!!!!!.  I love coffe and Sugar Free Vanilla Latte is usually my Starbucks choice but this was very very close to it and maybe better.

 I found out they are opening 2 other locations in Penasco.  The one I went to was on Freemont Blvd in a plaza named Placita Melanie.  I recommended, it was worth the stop...I needed that coffee :)

 

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Kicking Off 2008 in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point)

Posted: 12 Jan 2008 03:45 PM CST

After a brief hiatus, I am back to posting and hope to be able to continue to provide some insight into the business and real estate communities in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico. Not a lot has happened over the last month as much of Mexico goes on an extended holiday break during the Christmas/New Year’s season. So for those of you keeping close tabs on the construction progress of your chosen condominium community, don’t expect to see a lot of change from the early part of December until now. About Wednesday of this past week, the town started to bustle again and businesses were reopening after the break.

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Check this article out from the Helium Report http://www.heliumreport.com/archives/949-cut-rate-condos-international-developers-roll-out-incentives

It looks like the resorts on Sandy Beach are looking to provide incentives to potential condo buyers.  The below is an excerpt from the link above.

      "In an effort to reach out to potential buyers, Sandy Beach Resorts, where prices on residences range from $210,000 to $5 million, is offering two incentives programs. The first amounts to a complimentary educational seminar where prospective owners are treated to a multi-media presentation about the area and resort, and legal and financial advice on purchasing property in Mexico, over a catered breakfast or lunch. The second, geared towards seminar attendees, is a mini-vacation to the location itself, which includes round trip airfare from Los Angeles, a two-night stay in one of Sandy Beach’s beachfront resort, meals, area tours, and activities like a yacht cruise and parasailing"

I have also noticed that the Sonoran Sky Resort has reduced the amount they require as a down payment.  The deals are out there to be had in this current market.  Rocky Point Reservations to Sandy Beach are picking up and these incentives might increase the desire to invest.

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Being that it is Christmas eve in the height of the Holiday season, it is a perfect time to announce Holiday Specials for Rocky Point.  Many of the Rocky Point Resorts are offering a stay for 3 nights and pay for 2 Rocky Point Holiday special.  That is right, you pay for 2 nights and get the 3rd night for FREE.  This special runs through February 2008 at many of the resorts on Sandy Beach, call for details.  Call one of our phone agents at 1-800-997-9431 so you can find out what the participating resorts are.

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From Paul T. (in Phoenix)

I was down there a few weeks ago and came across a new place that had pizza that was outstanding. Al Capone's pizza & beer. They have a bunch of flat screen TVs with all the American sports and easily the best pizza I have had in Mexico and better than most places in Arizona.

Pretty cool place, check it out!

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This article was authoured by Mr. Paul P. Kingsley...these are many of the myths that still exist today and Paul is exposing the reality as people get ready for next year's visits and investments in Rocky Point...Please read Paul's article...

The reality of Rocky Point From growth to ownership of land, Americans labor under 5 key myths about the area Dec. 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Thousands of Arizonans who have purchased real estate in or frequently visit the booming vacation town of Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico, experienced leftover turkey indigestion the Sunday after Thanksgiving when reading The Arizona Republic's front-page article about a disputed piece of land known as North Beach outside Puerto Peñasco ("Prime deal, prime debacle," Nov. 25).
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Roger is coming to JJ's in January.
Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers are recording a new record in Puerto Penasco in January. The Peacemakers will conclude the creative operation with the January Jam @ JJ's Cantina. The small and very limited ticketing event will take place on Saturday January 12, 2008 at sunset.

Las Palmas Beachfront Resort has just announced special low rates for this weekend. Visit their web site or call Puerto-Penasco.com's travel agents.
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Las Palmas Resort today announced they will be heating their main pool from Christmas thru the New Year's week end.  Las Palmas has Rocky Point's only water slide and is a favorite for people looking for a family-friendly getaway.  Visit them at www.laspalmas-mex.com or call 866-475-5445.
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DHS and the State of Arizona Partner to Further Advance Secure Identification Initiatives

Source: US Homeland Security Website

December 7, 2007 - The Department of Homeland Security and the state of Arizona signed an agreement for Arizona to create a new type of driver's license that will satisfy requirements of WHTI and be a basis for REAL ID, a key recommendation of the 9-11 Commission. Secretary Chertoff said, "Agreements like this one, and the others before it, move secure identification in the right direction, and I urge other states to do the same."

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We will continue to research the new passport requirements throughout the year.  There is obviously much confusion.  In our return trip through the border last night, the officers at the border did not want to give a straight answer.  Our advice right now is to take a passport if you have one.  Now, if you don't have a passport, take a drivers license AND a birth certificate (If you don't know where your birth certificate is, contact your state of birth's vital statistics office by clicking here).  You could also take a drivers license and your voter registration card.  However, there is good news on the way.  We read this article in the Arizona Republic today....  Arizona could start issuing new driver's licenses with radio-identification chips next year that would be used in lieu of a passport at the U.S.-Mexican border.

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The Department of Homeland Security issued a press release today reminding U.S. citizens crossing the border by land back into the U.S. that crossing rules are changing under WHTI as of January 31, 2008.  Border crossing guards will no longer rely on oral representation of citizenship and will instead require both a government issued photo I.D. (such as a drivers license) and proof of citizenship (such as a birth certificate).  If you already have a passport, it will obviously meet both of these requirements.
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As part of National Conservation Week in Mexico, the Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Oceanos (CEDO) or the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, located in the Las Conchas area of Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), received a prestigious award recognizing their group as the top non-governmental organization working for nature conservation in all of Mexico. The Arizona Daily Star has the full story here.
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Rocky Point Ventures LLC today announced it has purchased the domain puerto-penasco.com from Puerto Penasco Mexico Online.    Both companies are located in Arizona. The purchase price was not disclosed and the deal is affective immediately.
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Recently plans have been announced for a $50 million USD scenic corridor that will connect the Malecon/Old Port to Mirador with landfill and a new boulevard around the seaside edge of Whale Hill.  This is exciting news for Puerto Peñasco. One of the difficulties experienced by tourists and residents alike is the lack of continuity across the town's tourist districts. Currently, visitors must travel all the way around Whale Hill from Old Port to get to Mirador, the other main entertainment district in town.
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From the L.A. Times's Real estate regrets in Mexico (reprinted in the Baltimore Sun)

PLAYAS DE ROSARITO, Mexico - The ripples of the U.S. real estate boom began washing up on the shores of this beach town a few years ago. Californians, feeling flush from the steep run-up in housing values stateside, pulled equity from their primary homes and snapped up vacation properties in northern Baja California as if they were buying $10 lobster dinners.

We nearly had ... fistfights" over choice units, said Michael Coskey, sales director of the Residences at Playa Blanca, ... "We were all appealing to people's greed."

Greed has turned to regret for some investors who now can't sell their Mexican properties.

Upward of 40 percent of the condos in some northern Baja projects were purchased by flippers who intended to resell before construction was finished...

But with contagion from the U.S. subprime mortgage debacle spooking many would-be purchasers and credit drying up, the Baja real estate market is flagging. Speculators are starting to sweat.

Speculators likewise are smarting in Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point, a beach resort in Sonora state 60 miles south of the Arizona border on the Sea of Cortez, also called the Gulf of California.

Egged on by soaring real estate prices at home, Arizonans snatched up Puerto Penasco condos at "crazy" prices that topped $1 million for some penthouses, according to Dee Brooks, owner of Twin Dolphins Real Estate in Rocky Point.

She said many flippers haven't been able to sell their units. Meanwhile, the rental market is so saturated that most can't cover their costs by leasing their properties.

Here's the whole story.


On the other hand ... Penasco's getting more investment dollars from Spain.

From Raminova Announces Expansion Plan in the Americas

Raminova announces plans to invest approximately $650 million in tourism-related projects in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Panama City, Panama; Los Cabos, Mexico; and Puerto Penasco, Mexico, within the next year.

Raminova's expansion plan, as well as its first project in the Dominican Republic, Cana Bay Beach Club & Golf Resort, is featured in this month's issue of Smart Money magazine...

Raminova is a partnership between the Ramirez Group, a 75-year-old real estate developing company, and Caixanova, one of Spain's largest financial institutions.

Here's the full release, and here's a followup from GlobeSt.com

At the moment I'm unaware If Raminova has anything to do with Salvago Mexico - the subgroup of the Spanish utility Iberdrola that bought Laguna Del Mar a while back - other than the fact that they're both located in Spain.

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I've heard from many, many people who stumble onto this website while searching for historical information about the area. Some folks have even been nice enough to send in their photos and anecdotes from their days "way back" in the 50's and 60's.

With all the growth and construction going on, I've become increasingly interested in people's stories from the 'old times' of Puerto Peñasco, when everybody called the place 'a sleepy little fishing village'.

Lots of you seem to be famiilar with Puerto Peñasco from the 60's on - I'm guessing somebody made a killing selling fishing boats in Tucson right around that time. I'd like to start an ongoing collection of your stories about Puerto Peñasco. I'm looking for your stories, memories, and recollections of Puerto Peñasco from 'way back in the day' - especially the 50's, 60's, and 70's.

Anything goes - when you were there, what you did, who you remember, how you remember the Puerto Peñasco of the past. Send your stories to info@puerto-penasco.com! I'd love to hear them and, with permission, post them for others.

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  • SPRING BREAK: For everybody emailing me with questions about SPRING BREAK 2007 - I don't mind fielding your emails, but do me a favor and read the 'Spring Break 2007' page first. I'm confident this page answers a stunning majority of the questions I am getting in email. Thanks.
  • NEW FROM TIM MELLO: Check out Tim Mello's new additions - RV Parks Morph into Seaside Pearls and Chatting on the Streets/'Charlando en Los Calles'.

    Don't forget his special report on Nascent Foodservice's move into Penasco, either, which he has updated with photos from their grand opening.

  • BIKER BUILD OFF - remember when the Discovery Channel's 'Biker Build Off' show shot a bunch of footage during the 2006 Rocky Point Rally? Well, the episode finally airs Feb 22, 2007 (the show is on TLC now) check out the press release here, from the bikerpics.org* blog. [* - bikerpics.org isn't exactly work-safe, if you get what I'm saying, so click accordingly :) ]

  • DISCOVERSONORA.COM - Discoversonora.com is back in business! You may remember this absolutely stunning photography/travel magazine from a while back. Their website disappeared for a while and I assumed that all was lost, which would have been a shame - however, not only is discoversonora.com back in business, but all of their issues are available online as PDF's - and they're gorgeous. Editor and publisher Gustavo Ybarra tells me new issues are on the way for 2008, and I can't wait to see them.
  • SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE ON THE VAQUITA MARINA: If you have even a passing interest in the Sea of Cortez, take ten minutes out of your day and read this article, and be sure to check out their slideshow as well.

    NY TIMES ON THE VAQUITA MARINA: 02/18/2007 - And now, the NY Times chimes in , with Vaquita Porpoise, and a Way of Life, Face Extinction

    GOLFO DE SANTA CLARA, Mexico — The fishermen gathered in the early evening light where the desert meets the blue gulf to talk over the way they had always lived off the sea and the fate of a small, endangered porpoise few of them had ever seen. Environmentalists from the United States and Mexico had begged the fishermen to stop using the gill nets that are killing off La Vaquita, or the little cow, a porpoise that now has the dubious distinction of being one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world...
    Here's the article
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