Ready to Move Into 4 Bed Colonial with Pool for Sale and Rent in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Completely Remodelled Colonial with Financing

This fully-secure, private, large, and beautiful 4 bedroom colonial with pool and in-property garage has been totally redone. READY TO MOVE INTO: Set back in a quiet and private cul-de-sac in Centro Merida, this house ready to park in its garage and move into: on the first day get on the phone, hook up your computer, start cooking, throw a house-warming party in its mist-cooled covered patio and outdoor bar on the pool terrace.

Included is a covered patio with a cooling/misting system for the summer months, media room, and 2 full bathrooms. The entire house is air conditioned and has ceiling fans throughout as well. The house is being SOLD AS IS, completely furnished, a fully stocked kitchen, dining room, and bedrooms with linens and towels and everything you need to move into in only a day! Not just that: there is full-price financing available.

The corner house is located within 2-4 blocks of the parks and wonderful local restaurants and music of San Juan and San Sebastian, the luxury bus line terminal to Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Chichen Itza and the Riviera Maya, and taxi stands. The house is 35 minutes from the beaches at Progreso, 10 minutes (and $5 taxi ride) to Merida’s modern airport, and a 10 minute walk to the main Cathedral Square with its Opera House, restaurants, theatres and music festivals.

Although no remodeling of this house is necessary, we can provide the architectural and engineering services you would require to remodel any part you want to change or add on to, as well as follow-up maintenance and management services after the house is finished.

Current rental is only long term, $1,300 per month + utilities. Should you want to rent it as a tourist rental: $250 a night low season and $450 a night peak high.

The house features are:
3400 square foot lot (338 m2) with 2700 ft2 construction.
Clear title and existing bank trust or fideocomiso.
Entrance hall
3 bedrooms with office to use as 4th bedroom. Master bedroom en suite with closets.
2 full bathrooms
Covered Terrace with cooling misting system
Enclosed garage in the property at the corner of the house accessed from one of the interior hallways
Private Pool Terrace with magnificent bougainvillea
Outdoor bar
Pool
2 storage rooms
Dining room
2 water heaters
Fully-wired Office/Den
New electrical and plumbing systems
Dimmers on all room lights
TV, High-Speed Internet, Telephone
Ceiling Fans throughout the house
Fully Air Conditioned throughout the house
Guest parking in quiet cul-de-sac in front of house
FINANCING: The fully furnished house can be purchased with owner financing at a price of $US 259,000. The terms are 25% down, the balance to be paid at $1,500.00 per month plus 8% annual interest, with the remainder due 5 years after the date of purchase.

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December 2011 THE NEW YORK TIMES

“36 Hours in Merida”
YUCATECANS are fiercely proud of their culture, sprinkling their Spanish with Mayan words and quick to recount the stories of resistance and revolution that set this region apart from the rest of Mexico for centuries. Somehow, those tales seem a little distant now in Yucatán’s capital, Mérida, a languid city of pastel mansions and evening promenades. The city, now one of the safest in Mexico, is an architectural jewel, and has one of the country’s largest historic centers outside Mexico City. Block after block of houses dating to the mid-19th century and earlier are in the midst of a restoration boom, and the city’s cultural and restaurant scenes are flourishing.
Friday
3 p.m. YUCATECAN FEAST
Sample Yucatecan cuisine at the Hacienda Teya (Mérida-Cancún Highway, Kilometer 12.5; 52-999-988-0800; haciendateya. com), a 17th-century plantation that switched from cattle to henequen, used for making rope, at the end of the 19th century, and is just a 15-minute drive from downtown. From the colonial dining room, with walls that are filled with old photographs of Mérida in the early 1900s, the view stretches to the brilliant flamboyant trees that fringe the expansive grounds. Try the classics: sopa de lima, a fragrant chicken and tortilla soup flavored with lime juice (54 pesos, or about $4, at 13.7 pesos to the dollar); cochinita pibil, tangy slow-roasted pork marinated in citrus and a paste made from achiote seeds; or poc chuc, grilled pork marinated in sour orange juice (both 124 pesos).
5 p.m. PROMENADE IN THE PLAZA
In the late afternoon, the whole city, it seems, congregates in the leafy Plaza Grande under the towers of Mérida’s austere 16th-century Cathedral of San Ildefonso. Have a sorbet at Sorbetería Colón on the north side (along 61st Street), then wander into the Governor’s Palace next door and take in the giant paintings depicting Yucatán’s violent history by the 20th-century Mérida-born artist Fernando Castro Pacheco. The Casa Montejo (506 63rd Street, 52-999-923-0633; ) on the south side, now a cultural center and museum, is the city’s oldest building, erected by Don Francisco Montejo, Yucatán’s conquistador, in the 1540s. Look for the carving of two Spanish conquistadors standing atop the heads of Indians on the facade. The four front rooms have been sumptuously restored to late-19th-century splendor. The gift shop sells excellent handicrafts. As night falls, walk north a few blocks to the small church of La Tercera Orden on the corner of 59th and 60th Streets, built by the Jesuits in 1618. You may catch a wedding or a quinceañera Mass.
9 p.m. MOJITOS BY STARLIGHT
The outdoor bar at the Piedra de Agua hotel (498 60th Street, 52-999-924-2300; ) has a spectacular view of the brilliantly lighted cathedral towers. Local groups play jazz and blues on Fridays. The specialties are mojitos (48 pesos) and lemon daiquiris accented with basil leaves (55 pesos). Try a pizza topped with huitlacoche, Mexico’s signature corn fungus (120 pesos).
Saturday
9 a.m. CURBSIDE BREAKFAST
The Loría family have run the Wayan’e street stand for 20 years (92E 20th Street at 15th Street, Colonia Itzimná, 52-999-927-4160). They serve savory tacos and tortas throughout the morning, scooping fragrant fillings like smoky chicken fajitas and scrambled eggs with acelgas (Swiss chard) out of clay pots to customers seated at a stainless steel counter. All dishes are from 8 to 12 pesos.
11 a.m. FROZEN IN TIME
During the henequen boom, when the agave plant was turned into rope for the world, Yucatán’s aristocratic landowners built magnificent houses, many of them now luxury hotels. But Hacienda Yaxcopoil (Federal Highway 261, Kilometer 186; 52-999-900-1193; ), about 20 miles south of Mérida, has been preserved as though in amber, a noble near-ruin where yellowing photos of the family that has owned it for five generations hang askew on the frescoed walls. For a fee of 50 pesos, you can wander through silent rooms offering a glimpse into the past, from the figurine of St. Geronimo in the chapel wearing a Yucatán straw hat, to French porcelain bathroom fixtures coated in dust. Mario Alberto Huchín Tun, 65, will give you a tour in Spanish; he is the third generation in his family to work on the hacienda. Take a taxi or hire a car service with a bilingual driver. Try Ralf Hollmann at Lawson’s Yucatán at 521-999-947-7599, .
2 p.m. A YUCATECAN DINER
At Chaya Maya (481 62nd Street at 57th Street, 52-999-928-4780), a woman in traditional Mayan dress makes corn tortillas in the window as families pile in. Try the house specialty, Los Tres Mosqueteros, or The Three Musketeers, which combines three classic Yucatecan dishes: relleno negro (a black sauce made from burnt chiles and spices) over pork; papadzul (an egg dish); and pipián (a sauce with a pumpkin seed base) over turkey, all for 70 pesos.
3 p.m. GOODS TO RELAX IN
El Aguacate (604 58th Street, 52-999-928-6429; ) sells hammocks for every budget. A finely woven cotton or nylon hammock, which takes about two months to weave, will cost about $175, but the cheapest one is about $20. (The store is in Mérida’s tiny red-light district, which is safe by day.) Back near the center, shop for a guayabera, a Cuban shirt worn untucked. It was a favorite with early 20th-century Yucatecan grandees, who would go to Cuba to stock up. After the Cuban Revolution, Yucatecans began making their own. A polyester-cotton blend at Guayaberas Jack (507A 59th Street, 52-999-928-6002; ) costs about $30, and an embroidered linen model popular with Mexican presidents sells for about $170.
7 p.m. FINE FOLK
Every Saturday, the city stages a free show for tourists and locals alike, featuring folk dancing, comedy, mariachi, marimba and romantic trova music (1 Paseo de Montejo at 49th Street, 52-999-928-1800; ). You can watch from the street or have a drink on the terrace of the Hotel Casa San Angel. For more information on cultural events, check “Yucatán Today,” the city’s free bilingual monthly tourist guide, .
9 p.m. CHOCOLATE DELIGHT
At the restaurant inside Mérida’s newest boutique hotel, Rosas & Xocolate (480 Paseo de Montejo at 41st Street, 52-999-924-2992; ), try the catch of the day prepared on a fried tortilla accompanied by prickly pear salad (180 pesos) or duck served with singed corn, local sausage, melon compote and a chile and raisin sauce (220 pesos).
11 p.m. SMILIN’ IRISH
An Irish pub seems as though it would be out of place, but Hennessy’s Irish Pub (486A Paseo de Montejo, 52-999-923-8993; ) is Mérida’s hippest night spot. The photos of the Irish countryside and ’80s classics on the soundtrack seem a little off, but the outdoor terrace on the Paseo de Montejo fills up.
Sunday
9 a.m. RIDING DOWN THE AVENUE
Grab coffee at Café la Habana (corner of 59th and 62nd Streets, 52-999-928-0608), then explore the Paseo de Montejo, lined with Beaux Arts-style mansions, most of them built with henequen money. The most stunning is the Palacio Cantón, which houses the Regional Anthropology Museum (485 Paseo de Montejo, 52-999-923-0469; admission: 41 pesos). The street is closed to traffic to make way for cyclists between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. every Sunday. Bikes are available for 15 pesos an hour from municipal offices at the corner of 62nd and 63rd Streets or along the avenue. For a map, go to /biciruta/.
Noon TWO-STEP BACK IN TIME
Mérida’s old-time dancers go to the temporary stage at Santa Lucía Park, at 60th and 55th Streets, where they dance Mexican danzón and cha-cha-cha to live music under a canopy. The dancers’ moves recall a bygone time of smoky dance halls, and they dress the part.

LOCAL ACTIVITIES
Golf
Tennis
Theme Park (Amusement Park)
Zoo/Wildlife Park
Shopping
Sightseeing
Restaurants
Kayaking
Sailing
Boating
Waterskiing
Parasailing
Jet Skiing
Shelling
Swimming
Windsurfing
Biking
Wildlife Viewing
Hiking
Fishing
Spelunking
Fitness Center/Gym
Health/Beauty Spa
Antiquing
Luxury Cinemas/Movie Theaters
Live Theatre
Museums
Horseback Riding
Cenotes (Google them if you don't know what they are -- not to be missed).
The most renowned Maya archeological sites are an hour away.