Help! I needhelp in verifying landlord's ownership of rental unit

[SteveGinGto]

To all:

Some of you I've been in contact with via PM, so not all of this story is on the thread here. Sorry about that, but I felt I needed to deal with some of it more privately, at least to start.

Heather: I informed James Pyle that we've worked this out and won't need him to do anything.

NanN and Meroberts:

Thanks for your info and advice. All here have been helpful beyond words.


TerrioLinda and Mr Bill:

Thanks for yours, especially. For everyone's info, Mr Bill informed me that the house number given to me - #5 - on Calle San Juan de D?os does not even exist. That pretty much clinches it. I had to pry the number out of their mitts, and they seem to have simply just made something up. It seems pretty much 100% certain that it was a scam.

So, with help, I dodged a bullet. And even if it isn't a scam, I approached it all wrong, and I learned something. I trusted as long as I could, and then I got to a point where I couldn't anymore. Knowledge will set you free.

And where do I go from here? I seem to have made some friends, so that is a head start on when I arrive in the first half of September. And I will do as advised - just land and hit a hotel and look around. That was advised months ago by an old hand down in Chapala - but I thought I'd found a goody and tried to jump the gun.

So, to all a good night, and thanks again!

Steve