Villa La Estancia
Owning a Piece of Paradise

1/8/2008: If you are interested in owning at VLE, we currently have a partnership interest available in villa 3708.  Competitively priced at less than what the resort is selling fractional interests for, our partnership includes an upgraded villa AND an accompanying vehicle for your use.  Please contact us directly for more information on owning at Villa La Estancia.

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"Welcome Home" is the greeting I never grow tired of.  As soon as we arrive at Villa La Estancia, the staff opens the door to our car and warmly greets us with this now-familiar greeting.

If you've ever wanted a luxury second home (without the hassles of owning a second home), Cabo San Lucas is an ideal location and Villa La Estancia (VLE) is the perfect property.  With great weather almost ten months of the year and a rental market equaling that, it's no wonder Cabo is one of the TOP THREE international destinations for Americans.  Golf, surf, sun, beaches, boating, fishing, diving, snorkeling, celebrities... about the only thing Cabo doesn't have is skiing (and the cold weather you've left behind).

With direct flights from almost all major North American cities (USA and Canada) and an expanding airport (adding a second runway), Cabo is ideally situated as a warm weather destination. 

In Cabo, VLE is a prime property ideally situated on Medano Beach (the swimming beach).  Located near the Cabo marina and downtown district (yet just far enough away to remain exclusive and quiet), Villa La Estancia is the only property on Medano Beach featuring private ownership.  It's the place to be for luxury and great service.

Villas at VLE are sold either as full-ownership (unfurnished) or as fractional-ownership (as little as an eighth-share, furnished and managed by the resort).  In addition, some villa owners have formed private partnerships that own a full villa, thereby splitting use of the villa with several families (that's what we do with our villas).  Maintenance of the resort is handled by the hotel resort, leaving your ownership free of headaches.  All the benefits of owning a spectacular second home, without the hassles. 

Cost of owning at VLE, especially as a fractional owner, is surprisingly affordable.  In fact, ownership is priced less than surrounding timeshares (per week) -- and the maintenance fees are considerably less.  And, VLE villas are much larger than typical timeshares.  With our partnership arrangement, you can even use your IRA to purchase your slice-of-heaven!

Owning at VLE has great benefits.  Of course, being able to escape to YOUR second home, is the BEST benefit.  Ownership opens up the great world of trading for equally luxurious properties around the world.  In fact, we originally bought at VLE sight-unseen after realizing the incredible trading potential property in Cabo has.  So far, we've traded our Cabo home for stays in waterfront homes at Lake Tahoe and Carlsbad, California.  We routinely use our villa for four weeks each winter and in summer, we usually trade for a waterfront vacation home at Lake Tahoe.  Could it get any better?

We've also traded for fantastic stays at The Four Seasons Residence Club, Aviara (Carlsbad).  VLE is a trading partner with The Registry Collection, RCI's high-end resort collection.  In addition, trades to other Villa La Estancia properties are possible (Nuevo Vallarta, Cancun and Loreto Bay). We've had great success using owner-to-owner trading at HomeExchange.com and at HomeExchangeGold.com.  We've even been featured in a New York Times article about exchanging!

We can truly state that since first purchasing at Villa La Estancia in 2005 that our lives have been changed.  Our family is no longer crowded into hotel rooms and we now vacation in properties that are as nice (or nicer) than our primary residence.  We can now invite family and friends to travel with us.  We once heard the saying "buy memories, not things" and VLE is the best of both worlds -- we bought into incredible vacations and memories of having fun and relaxing in a great new world.

More and more "boomers" are buying foreign real estate.  This article, written by Mike Williams of Cox News Service, explains the attraction and the benefits of owning.  Cabo's popularity, combined with the growth in tourism that is predicted due to the expansion of the airport (they are adding a second runway) and the strength of the Canadian Dollar (Cabo is priced in Pesos and US Dollars -- the Canadian Dollar now buys almost 20 percent more of these than it did a year ago), puts Cabo on a great track as an investment.  But, we prefer to just consider it our little ownership of sunshine, warmth and escape during our cold winter months in our home of Bend, Oregon.

Here's an article on the benefits of fractional ownership by the New York Times.

Another article, in the LA Times, on our Canadian friends buying real estate in warmer climates:  click here.

Another article, stating Cabo is now in the "top ten" destinations for private jets (no other Mexican or Carribean location is listed):  click here.   Flight Options is a fractional private jet company and they state that 16% of their December, 2007 travel was to Cabo San Lucas.  Interesting.

With a ten-month season, rental income is excellent.  With thirty- to thirty-five weeks of rental income per year possible (and low expenses), VLE offers a decent return when your property is sitting idle.  Can't trade for a property?  Then earmark rental income to pay for your next vacation!

We love sharing our villa with family, friends and business associates.  Sharing our second home, in such a sought-after destination, is a wonderful gift that is never forgotten.

-- Evan and Patti

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