About San Felipe, Baja California
San Felipe is a small town on the Sea of Cortez on the eastern side of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. It's near the mouth of the Colorado river, around 120 miles due south of the California USA border. San Felipe is a rare combination of rugged desert, white sand beaches, turquoise sea, great views of high mountains towards the west,...
Free Data with Telcel Amigo Refills
Saturday, March 17 2012
Telcel is now offering limited FREE data when you refill your Telcel Amigo prepaid phone account (larger amounts only). When you add 150 pesos to your account, you will get a 150 MB download limit...
Property Tax Discounts for 2012
Monday, January 2 2012
The San Felipe property tax (impuesto predial) bills for 2012 are now available online. Like last year, the discount is 20% if paid in January, 10% in February, 5% in March. The actual amounts to pay...
New Data Plans on Telcel Amigo
Saturday, November 19 2011
The plans on Telcel Amigo (prepaid) 3G data, including the SMS activation codes, have been revised. In addition, the data allowances have been doubled, in a temporary promotion that runs until Jan...
Adding money to your Telcel Amigo phone
Tuesday, October 11 2011
Telcel Amigo is a prepaid phone account in Mexico. If you don't add money to it for a while, you can lose the balance on it, and eventually your number. To avoid this, you should add some money...
Insuring your Imported Mexican-registered Car
Friday, September 2 2011
When your car (or other vehicle) is registered in Mexico (for example with Baja California plates) you have to get a domestic insurance policy. You can't use "tourist" type policies intended...
Importing a car to Baja California
Sunday, June 19 2011
If you're a full time resident of San Felipe, you may be able to import your car from the US or Canada, so that it has Baja California plates. In this article, I'll cover whether and how you can do...
AMPI San Felipe Real Estate Association formed
Friday, April 15 2011
San Felipe now has a professional Real Estate agent's asssociation, a new branch of AMPI. Established in 1956, AMPI is the Asociation Mexicana de Profesionales Inmobiliarios, A.C. and is the largest...
Chips in Mexico and the USA
Saturday, April 9 2011
Many products are available in both Mexico and the USA from the same manufacturer. But there are differences in the ingredients in each market, which can make them taste very different....
Telcel 3G Update
Friday, April 1 2011
Since November 2009, Telcel 3G internet access has been available at El Dorado Ranch (and other areas) in San Felipe. For the first year, it was the best solution for internet access in areas without...
Using a Kindle in Mexico
Thursday, March 31 2011
Amazon's Kindle is a electronic book reader. It can store thousands of books, and download new books wirelessly. There are some small differences in the way a US-based Kindle operates when in Mexico,...
Telcel 3G "double data" promotion has ended
Wednesday, January 26 2011
Telcel's 3G "double data" promotion has ended. Since July 2010, Telcel have been offering twice the "normal" data limit on their 3G plans and on Amigo 3G prepaid. The promotion has...
Renewing your Baja California Vehicle Plates
Monday, January 10 2011
If you have imported your vehicle, so that it now has Baja California plates, you will need to renew the stickers on the plates (or the plates themselves) each year. Previously there was also tenencia...
Bancomer updating debit cards to "Chip and PIN"
Monday, January 3 2011
Bancomer have begun the process of changing their VISA debit cards from magentic stripes to "Chip and PIN". They have started notifying customers that they need new debit/ATM cards. When a...
Property Tax Discounts for 2011
Tuesday, December 21 2010
The Mexicali government has proposed increased discounts for early payment of predial (property tax) for 2011. These changes are yet to be approved by the Baja California State Senate, but are likely...
Dormant Bank Accounts Will be Seized
Thursday, November 11 2010
Thanks to an alert from Ricky Lopez I've been looking into the rules for dormant bank accounts in Mexico. It is indeed something that anybody with an account that is used "only for the FM-3"...
Credit Cards in Mexico
Tuesday, November 9 2010
Most residents of countries like the USA and UK get a lot of credit card offers, and it's common to accept them with just a quick glance at the terms and conditions, which are in a standard format on...
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