Comments on: Writing Checks in Mexico http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:05:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Heirloom Tomatoe http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-96892 Heirloom Tomatoe Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:33:42 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm#comment-96892 I could write the book "living in Mexico for dummies". I am 52 from Southern California came here to be with my Dad before he died. I left everything so fast... in 6 months, I left my job, sold my car, brought a truck load of personal things and my passport, and headed for Irapuato-Guanajuato-Mexico. I never even knew about an FM3 or what an expatriate was. I was so naive. I discovered all that stuff when i got here and I learned everything I needed to know on my own with hardly any Spanish. I was lucky this was a large American expat working class town and everyone went to college and spoke English, so whenever i needed help, someone somewhere helped me. It was a nightmare for me at first. I did find that I can't live on Mexican money. The American expats here have the most lavish homes with pools and cars and maids and go to the Country Club. All I knew (before I moved here) was Baja and the old man with the donkey. Here we have Starbucks and Walmart and Home Depot and a dealership on every corner. Anyway Im ready to go back home!! I also discovered I MISS American men so much. I can't do "single" here at all. Its not safe and its boring for me. In my case I would end up with more money heading back home and living with Mom and the joys of riding my bike and seeing the "Queen Mary". Viva USA !!!! I could write the book “living in Mexico for dummies”.

I am 52 from Southern California came here to be with my Dad before he died. I left everything so fast… in 6 months, I left my job, sold my car, brought a truck load of personal things and my passport, and headed for Irapuato-Guanajuato-Mexico. I never even knew about an FM3 or what an expatriate was. I was so naive. I discovered all that stuff when i got here and I learned everything I needed to know on my own with hardly any Spanish.

I was lucky this was a large American expat working class town and everyone went to college and spoke English, so whenever i needed help, someone somewhere helped me. It was a nightmare for me at first. I did find that I can’t live on Mexican money. The American expats here have the most lavish homes with pools and cars and maids and go to the Country Club. All I knew (before I moved here) was Baja and the old man with the donkey. Here we have Starbucks and Walmart and Home Depot and a dealership on every corner.

Anyway Im ready to go back home!! I also discovered I MISS American men so much. I can’t do “single” here at all. Its not safe and its boring for me. In my case I would end up with more money heading back home and living with Mom and the joys of riding my bike and seeing the “Queen Mary”. Viva USA !!!!

]]> By: Working Gringos http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-53109 Working Gringos Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:27:13 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm#comment-53109 As a small business, yes, you get your checks from the bank. They are carefully controlled and not just sent to your home/office the way we are used to. You have to go pick them up yourself, or send a designated representative who has a special form filled out and signed in triplicate. We don't think anyone except companies as big as Telmex do computer checks around here. We have an accountant, not accounting software. Because accounting is different here... You don't send invoices, you send facturas. They are numbered invoices in triplicate. Your checks can only go to pay for something for which you have a factura. It can get complicated... and its best to have an accountant. Perhaps if we were more comfortable with business Spanish, we could navigate these waters better on our own. In the meantime, we have an accountant... did we mention that? As a small business, yes, you get your checks from the bank. They are carefully controlled and not just sent to your home/office the way we are used to. You have to go pick them up yourself, or send a designated representative who has a special form filled out and signed in triplicate.

We don’t think anyone except companies as big as Telmex do computer checks around here. We have an accountant, not accounting software. Because accounting is different here… You don’t send invoices, you send facturas. They are numbered invoices in triplicate. Your checks can only go to pay for something for which you have a factura. It can get complicated… and its best to have an accountant. Perhaps if we were more comfortable with business Spanish, we could navigate these waters better on our own. In the meantime, we have an accountant… did we mention that?

]]> By: Mike M http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-53085 Mike M Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:34:06 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm#comment-53085 As a small business in Mexico, do you purchase your business cheques from the bank? And can you purchase computer cheques to work with your accounting software? As a small business in Mexico, do you purchase your business cheques from the bank? And can you purchase computer cheques to work with your accounting software?

]]> By: P & B http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-31386 P & B Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:33:17 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm#comment-31386 Hard not to smile a lot reading this article.... I have so many "anulado" checks for each one I write..... what can I say... "Bienvenido a Mexico" :) Hard not to smile a lot reading this article…. I have so many “anulado” checks for each one I write….. what can I say… “Bienvenido a Mexico” :)

]]> By: Margaret Wedge http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-31272 Margaret Wedge Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:38:45 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/yucatan-survivor/writing-checks-in-mexico.htm#comment-31272 Great information. I had forgotten the "fun" of writing checks in Merida. I basically use my ATM or debit card all the time. I am looking at using Citibank in the states to receive my Social Security and retirement checks use Banamex in Merida. Any comments or suggestions. Great information. I had forgotten the “fun” of writing checks in Merida. I basically use my ATM or debit card all the time. I am looking at using Citibank in the states to receive my Social Security and retirement checks use Banamex in Merida. Any comments or suggestions.

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