And he has the nerve to call himself a “philanthropist “! What a narcissist POS he is! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zsqfo7ahud64YKs.html

BenBohmer - reflection

My grandmother owns land in Puerto Rico. People lied to her. My family was supposed to still have land we’re is it i still have family over there but nobody telling them the truth people going over there taking advantage of people that don’t have western education sad

I want my land back now

Thanks for this Bianca. Good reporting.

Shows how much he doesn’t give a damn about the people there. all he saw was dollar sign. Typical of them.

Slave wages!

@@jamesgiko9482 capitalistic tax evader 🟥

And the fact that his ass owes taxes in Rhode Island is ridiculous. He should not be able to purchase anything there and live while owing the state all that money. He is a piece of shit and I don’t expect him to pay that back with any profits he makes from this.

Minimum wage rates are just that and nothing more. They often do more harm than good. Just like maximum wage rates have done in history. Also the military bases that were on the island did a lot of good for the economy and many jobs for civilians. I use to live in Puerto Rico and saw how it helped with jobs.

Oh come on. The destruction of their homes? How is investing in PR destroying their homes? Their land? Are you an American? Its your land too then. They don’t give 2 shits about buying up land here in the states. Their xenophobia is ok but ours is not. Lol People like you are pitiful. Lol

@@floriderllc6862 "Are you an American? Its your land too then." Typical colonizer mentality. You think you own everything, push people out and them call them savages when they can't take it no more. I feel bad for you. Only a heartless monster would go into an impoverished land in need of help after multiple catastrophic natural disasters and kick the poor people out of their homes.

@@IBreiKeL you don’t understand what colonization is. Its no different than moving anywhere in the US. A monster? I pity you. This video is racist and I call them out.

@@floriderllc6862 Racist? So is the wall between USA and Mexico. "Are you an American? Its your land too then." is precisely what we are fighting, the mentality that you have a right to this stolen nation as is Hawaii another stolen nation.

@@floriderllc6862 The local Cuban exiles government of Puerto Rico calls this progress, now tell me how do I benefit from being pushed out like the Indians with all this development. I can not benefit if there is no progress for me. We have enough with the Cubans running the government, we do not need more gentrifiers.

la entiendo completamente! pero no es injusticia mi gente, es falta de educación , ese tipo sabe muchas cosas que ustedes no saben. es un tipo educado que sabe como se mueve el dinero, sabe de inversiones, sabe de taxes! LO UNICO QUE LE PUEDO DECIR A GENTE JOVEN DE PUERTO RICO ES QUE SE EDUQUEN, Y NO ME REFIERO IR A UNA UNIVERSIDAD APRENDER UNA CARRERA ESTUPIDA QUE AL FINAL DEL DIA NO DA PARA VIVIR COMO UNO MERECE, LEAN LIBROS DE FINIANZAS, COMO PADRE RICO , PADRE POBRE DE ROBERT KIYOSAKI Y SE VAN A DAR CUENTA DEL LA MENTIRA Y EL SUENO QUE LES VENDE EL GOBIERNO!!!

they welcome American way of life, and that sort of thing comes with it.

I know right?! Talking about "that's the way the world works" no, just where you're from Karen, where the Almighty dollar and greed is king.....very, very selfish woman...

I live here in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, Yes I agree it looks ugly , outsiders coming here buying our land...but I don't see nobody talking about Puerto Ricans selling their property to outsiders...behind every property sold to outsiders, there is a Puerto Rican seller...This is the problem that needs to be fixed, without my home being for sale, I was offered more than what the asking price was...I declined the offer, Puerto Ricans have the obligation to value what they own, because when they don't, Someone else will, and this is what will happen...Its too late right now, once a outsider buys a property, it will never belong to a Puerto Rican again.

@@MosaicHomestead very smart response.

@@pavelzaro1471 it's a honest response

Very good idea. Land and house are top of the line investment. If you are living in a very much attractive area and not looking out for best interest. "A share of the pie "

This video has so much wrong with it to cover. But first, Puerto Rico has plenty of homes and not enough people, most of Puerto Rico is inhabited by older Puerto Ricans leaving the workforce. The racist woman who has European features and speaks colonial Spanish tells Americans not to come or stay in Puerto Rico. There are more Puerto Ricans living on mainland US than on Puerto Rico itself and the island is losing population rapidly. There are many issues with PR, but people like this woman are hateful racists.

As I understand it, PR doesn’t have that kind of sovereignty to make and enforce such laws. It’s more or less “owned and operated” by the USA government, right?

@@erstwhilerambler Yes. That is one of the reasons why PR wants to break away from the US.

Breaking away from the US is not possible, Puerto Rico has low population of aging people who do not work, do not contribute to the economy, and also require assistance in the form of government funded social programs. Most of their working age citizens live and work in the United States. Puerto Rico already has mountains of debt and is in the midst of a fiver year battle with bankruptcy, they are literally bankrupt. It’s a nice thought, but not possible and never going to happen.

@@user-vc9tt5eg3z that's bullshit. IT's also like that because of the current situation/

I understand, but many of the buildings that the government is selling have been abandoned for years without proper care. Every commercial building, house, apartment, or property in any area that is not well maintained will depreciate the surrounding real estate.

Define "true Puerto Rican".

He is a slime ball!!

@@davism3800 you know exactly what he means dummy

@@lp1652 No, I don't. Define it.

If he’s Puerto Rican he has very right to purchase property there.

It was sickening he just expects people to be paying high rents everywhere, but thats why CA and Florida are going up in price so much. Its hard to feel sorry for those people when thats been the story of our lives as Americans. Everybody from the 3rd world has moved here and it has artificially driven up the prices for years.

@@floriderllc6862 I am from Florida. I'm facing the reality of insane rent prices and I may not be able to live where I do very soon due to it. I grew up with people from Puerto Rico and other South American countries. I can tell you with certainty they are not the cause. They're the scapegoat the same rich Americans who are causing this will use to keep you from being against them. I'm watching it happen - rich Americans buy properties, kick out the tenants, and either renovate and increase rent or turn it into an airbnb. Those who immigrate here due to poverty don't have the money to drive up prices and they're the ones who stand next to me facing the same reality of being priced out of our community.

@@Savannah- I live in Florida too, and all my neighbors are from PR and south america, including my wife. Yes, they do drive up the prices because they require housing driving up demand. I also own rental properties in Florida. What would happen to prices if all the PR’s and South Americans suddenly left Florida? When you own properties the more you generate from rents the more your property is worth. You don’t invest money to lose it. But, you can only charge what the market dictates and that price comes from supply and demand.

Believing that another person cares about you or holds you in high esteem, and will not intentionally harm you simply because you were both born and raised in the same country is a big mistake. Predatory people do not allow themselves to be hindered or limited by such trivial things. In fact, they use them to their advantage since it causes the gullible to lower their guards.

Why he saw a financial opportunity that Puerto Ricans living there did not care about. He made an ethical business decision. Why didn’t the tenants petition the local state government of PR, also PR banks like Banco Popular to come up with a creative financial plan to acquire the building in a firm of co-op to ensure they could be in control of their future, rather than just complaining. #DespiertenBoricuas

If you paste a sign on your back saying "Kick me!" people will kick you.

Gentrification ruined NYC culture too.

Yesss, they should sue and take this case to court. Make sure this doesn’t occur again. People make sacrifices to buy a place to live. Creating jobs? Ummm, and taking the money gained from Puerto Rico and invest it some where else. I’ve read and seen it in the news. It’s about time people be pro-active to go against those that attempt against their peace in life.

@Ash Hegde I mean to say if the people that are living in are the owners.

@Ash Hegde New York doesn't have a soul, its too commercialized. Times Square looks like Disneyland now.

@@Yandel21ableify omg new York is so different, it's not the place I lived in when I was a kid, and I'm not talking about covid or any political stuff. I use to live by flatbush ave. I stayed on ocean Avenue, Beverly rd. Back then, it was pretty bad. Now, after 16 years, a lot of buildings that were they're are not there, new apartments, my old apartment was remodeled. I went to Manhattan, and I only felt like a tourist visiting my own home. I can't describe it

There has to be a way to stop this but money talks. Having the money and the heart would be proving shelter and jobs to locals.

The white lady is so goddamn clueless about the struggles of the people. Your white, you’re a colonizer Get thru hell out. Everywhere you go you people create chaos.

good on you doing ur research tho with empthaty for land you want to move to, natives want to be treated as tho they matter because since Spanish colonization the world will always value our land over our people and that only continued after America made it its territory

It seems that you've been getting your, " education " concerning Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico's far left monopolized media who are allied with the Island's oligarchs and from people like the young lady in charge of this KZfaq video. This young lady is also allied with the people that want Puerto Rico to be like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. It's simply amazing how, even educated people, swallow contaminated information blindly !!

@@JustJoe827 Pass me with your trolling! You obviously lack the ability for intellectual discourse without resulting to some form of hate spewing out of your brain.

I worked for a property management company that was national, and I could see all the homeowners info. Let’s just say a lot of American homes are owned by foreigners and used as income properties. It happens everywhere unless the laws prohibit.

@Ash Hegde So why not give the same privileges to all, outsiders and locals. That's the way it should be.

@Ash Hegde Which market? The Local market? Or the world market? Do you understand the purpose of trade protections, such as tariffs? If I am permitted to go from a wealthy country to a less wealthy country and buy out prime real estate from under the feet of the local people, simply because I have more money than them, and perhaps special tax breaks, would you call that fair market practice? This is not an even playing field. And apparently that is fine with you, so long as the odds (and laws) are skewed in your favor. It takes a very special conscience to be okay with that.

siiii yo soy mexicana tambien....los vendedores de veneno d rata, narco traficantes, llegan y te ropan y no quiere q t quejes x q si lo haces te matan x q ya esta comprobado q ay pliyicos del narco como lo ay narco cantantes etc....o vienen chinos communistas o espanoles o elites con corporaciones pa usarte como condons desechables

@Ash Hegde hola....no entendi

@@zulmakarnacha si ves madrilenos por el mundo edicion puerto Rico(KZfaq), viven en las mejores partes de la isla y con aires de superioridad.

While I feel sorry for these people, Puerto Ricans need to be realistic. They've got a ton of debt and their own politicians are allowing this to happen, as a means to try and solve that debt issue. If they were smart, they would have banded together to buy some of these properties. If you've got a solution that solves their debt situation AND allows these people to stay in their homes, I'd love to hear it.

It's not being stolen the land and property is being bought nothing different then buying property in the United States

@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 A lot of the debt comes from local politicians’ corruption of course, but also how dependent PR’s economy was made on American corporations and their low paying jobs. If you go to PR, you’ll see more US corps bunched together than even in some places here in the states. The American corps literally destroyed local PR run businesses… I do comprehend the failures of some better off PR’s though. So many of them move to NY, LA or Miami after becoming wealthy in PR instead of staying and contributing to the island. They’ll literally claim there aren’t any opportunities there (colonial mindset), and then the stateside Americans come in or even people from abroad and say “we see A LOT of opportunities”…. But many of them could care less about the local population. That’s on the better off PR for being so short-sided and refusing to see the value of their own island and how they should contribute back to it.

I am Puerto Rican, born in the states....but I will roo for my people!!!

@@earthandwind820 this is the dumb and makes no logical sense - "If you go to PR, you’ll see more US corps bunched together than even in some places here in the states. The American corps literally destroyed local PR run businesses…" How can u find more US businesses in PR than in the mainland? Do you understand the concept of economy of scale? have u ever tried to shop 100% small local business for everything? i have and it's way more expensive for arguably the same stuff you get at a box store. 90% of the shit in local shops is made in china, just like the box stores but costs twice as much. There are stores here literally called "China Town" and the locals love them cause it's cheap. They don't care where it came from; that child slaves had to mine the materials, or about the sweatshop workers that churn out that disposable trash that ends up in landfills or the ocean. the only thing that matters to them is that it's cheap. "But many of them could care less about the local population." I agree a lot of pr's don't give a shit about anything but themselves. when pr's leave the island, they do the exact thing they bitch about when people go to PR; entitled hypocrisy. I don't hear anyone talking about the people selling their property to foreigners. She mentions that LOCALS say they prefer to work with "gringos" (somehow gringo isn't racist?) cause they are money smart and actually pay the rent on time or early. yeah, so why aren't the local landlords on blast? why is it the foreigners problem when a PR SELLS their property? Shouldn't they be allowed the FREEDOM to sell their own property as they see fit? Let's say you actually did something to own a house and then wanted to sell it. Offer #1 is asking price but the buyer is a family relocating from outside PR Offer #2 is $10,000 below asking price but is a local What offer do you take? those saying they'd turn down an extra $10k are probably lying. believe it when you see the proof. Capitalism and free markets aren't prefect but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternatives. The fact that we can sit here and have debates in the youtube comment section is proof of that. It's in this capitalist free market and thru the freedoms granted by the constitution that all who are lucky enough to be under it's umbrella has an opportunity to become wealthy. It's for this exact reason that there's more pr's on the mainland than on the island. What if all of a sudden mainlanders started telling pr's to go home and stay on their island? 100% pr's would play the race card.

Thank you. That is the first place that my mind went.

Truth

They are the part of the problem. But if the monetary incentive is them selling to a Person from the states then thats what they are going to do. The jobs being “created” are not the wages needed to actually buy a property.

Do your mind go there.. when America sells our homes to foreigners too?

😂seller not a true Boricua, just by name. No ama la Patria.

Its easy to demonize people who have more money than you do. Thats doesnt make it right.

Shes a Vulture Indeed... A curropt and Greedy individual... She said thats how the world works, it doesnt mean she have to hop in the wagon and drive over everyone who cant...sad.

SAY IT LOUDERR

It’s not her fault, it’s the algorithm! It’s not her fault it’s the government! She is the most insufferable person I have seen in a long time.

Imperialism and Neo Colonialism

where the white folks go, prices will grow lol

Landlords are the new problem. Inflation is a made up thing.

Okay nothing wrong with pushing poverty from beach front areas! This way wealthy people can spend some money and build homes which creates jobs, like construction, housekeeping, Airbnb, furniture stores sell merchandise, local government collects property taxes and tax employees etc. I think most people are confused on how wealth is created and basic economic principals. The poor becomes middle class by working not by getting government support and halting growth and progress! Monaco, Singapore, Dubai and so many of these super wealthy crypto places opened their doors high and wide to foreigners and look at them now. But in Puerto Rico the mentality is let’s block everyone including natives and locals etc. It’s bizarre!!

And Soon those Foreign Investors will buy it all and Triple the Rent and cost of buying your Dream House in P.R Will be just a Dream might have to relocate to Dominican Republica, and the cycle just keep on Moving the Poor out .

@@patmarco2251 it’s sad that people are close minded about progress in Puerto Rico. However leaving someone without a home is just as wrong.

@@TheWrestlingUniverse agreed.. No one should be homeless.

@@jseahmed2432 cost of living is going up everywhere, but those who are close minded think it is only affecting their community and caused by foreigners! Guess who is selling these buildings? The locals, and you can blame the brokers who are also locals and the bankers who are locals, you get the idea..

Yep!

It will all crash eventually. Wages have flattened but rent, food, gas just keeps going up.

Cuba, Puerto Rico, even Venezuela, but how about the Dominican Republic? It was also colonized by Canarians, the way of speaking and the way of living is Canarian, just like Cuba and Puerto Rico.

The same comments I heard from foreigners here, saying that they want to give an "European vibe" to a small town that they are moving in.

Happening everywhere even rich homes, like all the houses in Lake Tahoe have practically become Airbnb so you spend millions of dollars on your lakefront property just to have random guests as your neighbors every weekend

True, especially in GA. The difference is there is less choices on the island. And despite being a part of the U.S. as a territory, it is still a distinct culture and ethnicity with its own history. The P. Ricans in the states are here because their families migrated over the years to the mainland to out of necessity. The rent was low in these Apts because that's the market and most people don't make a lot of $ in these neighborhoods. I mean it's not midtown Atlanta.

The dude infuriated me with his arrogance, lack of self awareness regarding his comments, and pure cold-heartedness. He could care less about what he and others are doing to native Puerto Ricans with much lower incomes. He’s a perfect example of the greed which blinds people to decency.

Does Hawaii not have good schools or something? Lol

Why

@@silviabarreto6969 quotation marks are important. I was paraphrasing what that guy meant.

That shouldn’t be of your concern that is there home and town for years until your people want to come over with bad intentions and destroy the lives of those native people that are from there

You can observe and see what is coming. The majority of the people here are sleeping and that is what is causing all this.

The Mall of San Juan is an example and they have been planning to eliminate the Residencial Nemesio Canales to expand Plazas Las Américas but there's other interest involved.

@@mariabardo6420, my goodness. That would be horrible. Where are they supposed to move to??

Yeah but that’s in every country

They are doing this everywhere

Yes it turned it into a wonderful place to live.

Lol, is not the same. Hawaiian are natives. Puerto Ricans are descendants of the Colonizers.

Puerto Rico is not a country at all. It is a US island. The residents are US citizens just like me. It helps to understand the context.

Diversity is your strength!

It ruined it

How. What did you invest in?

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Haha... passive income is a myth sold to you by people on youtube. Bs.

Why didn’t you buy a property?

@@reaccionapuertorico In the 80's I was in grade school. But my parents always talked about it and as I got older I realized they were right.

@@russelltakemoto230 did they have a house?

@@reaccionapuertorico yes, from my grandmother who passed

Same in the Canary Islands and now is worse than ever.

You do know a lot of Italians immigrated to Puerto Rico back in the 1800s. A lot of the Puerto Rican stock is Italian from Corsica.

Different scholars like Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez have since concluded that Columbus may have had a Jewish background.

Funny how the only ones who aren’t allowed to have that opinion are Western nations.

Your cute

That’s true

Im interested on reading this book.

Jajaaj compatriota nunca pensé encontrar una uruguaya Puerto Rico para puertorriqueños se tienen qie independizar de una vez

@@chinchanchou De acuerdo. Desafortunadamente los independentistas representamos solamente cerca de un 4%.

. (I'm just commenting to save the comment HAHA) Voy a estar pendiente, me interesa leer el libro.

@@ligiat3073 War against all Puertoricans was an eye opener for me. I’m intrigued to read yours.

Este es el estigma típico de la plaga que infesta a las mentes avaras, mezquinas y poco me importa de los gobiernos y políticos de America Latina.

Si

Esos son los más venenosos, como serpientes. Alguien me decia que el Karma existe. ¡Basura!

Daddy Yankee y los otros regaetoneros que hagan edificios con rentas controladas para los Puerto Riqueños.

El estatus no es de lo mejor. Y si fuera independiente no quedaria estaca en pared.....!!!!!

Puerto Rico will be like Hawaii where natives cant afford to live on their islands.

And cynical

@@Yandel21ableify there are no native people on Puerto Rico

@@Luca-nu2zg Puerto Ricans still have Native DNA

No sabéis que Puerto Rico en 1898 era España y los Puertorriqueños eran españoles.... Ese es el camino....

says a white guy living on land TAKEN from the native people that lived there BEFORE you showed up.

The government is giving incentives to foreigners "americans" because the people here dont make enough money to supply the government with enough funds to actually provide decent services. PLUS THEY ARE CORRUPT which makes it even more difficult. The foreigners are a result of stagnation, but the stagnation is also a result of failed goverment+ fre access to america

Puerto Rico independendiente YA

@@chinchanchou Seria bueno pero de que van a vivir, si es ahora con todos los millones que reciben y no arreglan nada imaginate sin el dinero que envia los EU. Lo que necesita es estar bien administrado.

Exactly the case. Our government corruption, nepotism, and patronage will never secure anything for an average citizen. I do not support statehood, but independence would put all power into the hands of criminals.

@@puertocool imagine if PR was independent and elected a governor who acted like maduro.

That is what happens when you dont save and buy a place. I pay 500 a month mortgage for a house and 2 1/2 acres. Dont complain about people who did it the smart way because you choose to do things the dumb way.

It is exactly the same thing in every free market society on earth, not just here! The ability to own your own residence is not impossible for most people. Renting prices will always he driven by the market. Nice places, higher prices.

This should not be allowed. You are not Puerto Rican because you've lived in Puerto Rico since 2019 that only makes you an Italian who can't make it any where else because it's harder. Our Puerto Rican government needs to wake up and see the damage that they are allowing to happen to the Puerto Ricans. Born and raised in Puerto Rico.

Fight back like Cuba....guerilla war style fvck it y not

​@dubbayewwilliams9402 bro people try to escape Cuba all the time. Fk communism

Not to worry the violence will come Puerto Ricans do not play

Why would they help? They profit from gentrification Kind of a dumb comment if you think about it

White woman? What's up with that?

Some Americans have been brainwashed with entitlement syndrome - thinking they have the right to dictate/own the world. Not all Americans, of course, but it’s more prevalent than other nationalities I’ve spoken with. In other words, there are good/bad in all nationalities, but even the bad in other nationalities don’t think they have the right to control the world & everyone has to swallow it.

@@JuanRivera-qi7jl you know white folks, are responsible for everything bad that's happened, since the beginning of time. Makes people feel good to blame us

No hate just wondering, why "natives"

Diversity is your strength!

I'm not a Puerto Rican but I'm with you!!!!

The government put the tax incentives there for a reason

They are rebuilding PR. The profit motive is good.

Y la gente, sin casas, no pueden pasarla a sus hijos en herencia, o hipotecarla, para financiar estudios, y de ese modo, se empobrece la clase media, para que no tenga un futuro con personas educadas, que puedan ser agentes de cambio y de empresarismo. Se trata de desempoderar...

@@LlnusTechTips. True, but that doesn't mean their reasoning was right, just, equitable, or even economically sound.

Esa es la parte triste de alquilar....los dueños siempre van a tener la ultima palabra

Lol. Dude you are Hippocratic. That's how money's work. If you own that apartement you would do the same.

This is Puerto Rico. The govt is the problem. That’s what this is all about. There are no laws Inforced with this stuff. That’s the whole problem.

I wouldn’t, I believe in owning property if I can afford it, but I wouldn’t fuck over my tenants just because I want more money. There’s no honor in it and we shouldn’t act like mainlanders!

@@jalicea1650 your business need money. And if u using reality that building need maintenance and its cost money. Need electricity, pay water etc. In the end of the day. You would love if you could just evicted them and go do vacation in japan, or snowboard in Switzerland , alpen mountain, go visit nepal, india.

So it's ok for you to take advantage of our economy but we can't take advantage of your poor real estate? Hypocrisy

It’s sad greedy fucking people

@@cadebrown2092your displacing people who are making under the minimum wage though, how can the people of Puerto Rico take advantage of that if they aren’t given anything to sustain the type of economy in the States?

Puerto Ricans own the West Side of every major city in America. I grew up in a school filled with Puerto Ricans. Now, we are coming to your country. So what??? Get over it. They need to stop whinning like babies and you need to stop kissing people arses.

@@vbin9081 as a puerto rican I honestly couldn't careless about all of this, however just stating your experience Is just anectdotal evidence. That being said, I couldn't care less if more Americans come over here since it's thanks to them we have what we have and also we're already colonized af so it wouldn't change a damn tjing

Thank you, Christine Goulding. You have a heart!

@@vbin9081 the problem with this one is how it's being carried out; all throughout the 20th century and up to recent years, people from the mainland came to the island to live. No one in the island EVER had any issues with that. But this is different: Act 22 (now 60) has allowed for richer people to come and buy out properties (several, at times) and the realty market for those whose lives have always been there (and don't forget: it is an ISLAND) has become so inflated that, along with lower salaries, they are being displaced. SO THIS IS DIFFERENT. Tell me: have Puerto Ricans ever displaced any of you in the mainland, anywhere, by moving there? NOPE. Please grasp the context, sir or madam. Pleasant morning.

Thank you so much for standing with us

Well its time to get rid of the real estate business in Puerto Rico's

If it's so serious, why are they not aware?

@@edwinrodriguez9404 Getting rid of the real estate sector is not an option. We need to find ways to level the playing field and allow local Puertoricans the same or better opportunities in their homeland and limit gentrification.

@@einarabelc5, it was all worked out “under the table” right after Hurricane María. Behind those infamous “closed doors”... Thankfully, journalists are looking at this carefully. Check out, for example, Jay Fonseca's interview with the governor a couple of days ago (El cuerto poder is the name of the news show,) among MANY other publications on the topic.

@@glenjos1, agreed!

Merci, Bob. Right on point.

Aux Antilles françaises ils font face a une situation similaire 🤣

You can't blame the person who purchased the property ,for it is his right to do so. You can't blame the seller because we have no idea of his financial situation. It's all a part of life. "NO ONE EVER SAID LIFE IS FAIR"!! The new owner has the legal right to do whatever he chooses to do with HIS PROPERTY!! I'm sure that for those of you who are screaming bloody murder towards the new owner feel so strongly about this injustice, get together raise the money to purchase the property and let the tenants stay there !! Activists especially on social media always find problems but NEVER FIND THE SOLUTION THEMSELVES!!!

That’s why our laws have to change. This isn’t about this man. He gets away with it because it was meant to benefit him, not us puertoricans. I find it ridiculous when they, as in the investors shown in the video and our lawmakers, try to justify this unfair policies with “I’m actually helping you guys” “I’m making the place pretty”. Accept that you wanna fill your pockets at any cost. Just like our government. Its ok.

@@oh_nat9340 the lawmakers have nothing to do with this. Any American can buy properties wherever the want and then do with them as they want.

If the government didn't do favors then this won't happen

That is why a lot of you end up in USA right for the $$$ and every time a disaster hit Haiti only the USA helps not santo Domingo nor Puerto rico!!!!

@@elvingarcia3869 right on

USA don't help anyone. Specially not Haiti. We love Haiti. USA is a tyrant of Europe

@@JuanRodriguez-pj1zn Es la verdad, senor.

@@elvingarcia3869 Lol USA don't help Haiti, they're just adding more to Haiti's debt.

It's so sad that this had been your experience. I hope that one day somehow you're able to make that dream come true. I'm in that position you where in the past. I moved from PR super young. So young I don't even remember living there, but I always went back to visit for weeks at a time and feel in love with it every single time. I promised myself that one day I would go back, that feeling is still there, but this comment section is making me think twice about it. 😩

@@cjrodriguez1053 Thankyou for your sentiment. Yes I pray the Lord gives me a compelling reason to return despite the covid and economy issues. Like meeting my future wife in PR again like my first wife that passed away. I met her in PR and I had to sell my digital piano to be able to afford the plane ticket on such short notice at the time. Puerto Rico is fun to visit but I have so much desire for the things,houses, food, music, landscape,people,in PR that I can not risk all the covid restriction issues, rental instability and other scams, to just visit for a short while. Like the right woman, I want to go back to PR to stay until death do us part.. God willing :-)

Independencia for Puerto Rico fixes al this

@@jesusjesus534 That is what I thought back in the 1990s and early 2000s when I first visited the island as an adult, but I have found out recently that the local government has been instrumental in the demise of the island. All the provisions for Hurricane Maria victims were hidden and left to spoil in some warehouse that a local man found out about and put on youtube along with other issues with the former administration there being ousted by the people of PR publicly for stealing funds or something to that effect? All that aid to PR even with Trump being a butt hole, still made it to PR but the local government in PR stole the money and supplies or tried to SELL the supplies instead of helping the locals that needed the aid. No, if PR becomes a island nation like Jamaica or DR or Cuba, at this present moment, PR will end up sold to China or other foreign investors for gain of resources and so on. What is happening now, that has angered me in this video has been around for many years, but to the level it is right now since at least the 2000s? No, that is new due to the PR government trying to attract more money into the island that they are giving tax breaks and incentives to the wealthy that can come and buy up land and preexisting structures, at the expense of the locals.. Yeah I am still in shock. Basically the locals are out of gas. You are not rich, you made homeless. Greed. If PR stays a commonwealth, at least for now, the locals still have a chance. If PR becomes a state, then the locals are going to be taxed to death and priced out of the island faster as what happened with Hawaii and Guam. Sadly, PR is going that route no matter what. Prayers for the people if Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico will be like Hawaii where natives cant afford to live on their islands.

That line itself made me want to throw my phone.

I understand how you feel. However i believe that is best for Puertorriqueños not to shun him away. Teach him/them what those that means help him create a real connection to the island and its people so he stop seen us as just another way to make money. His children, grandchildren will be the new Puertorriqueños just as some of our ancestors parents came from somewhere else. The children of the colonizers and the merchants became the ones who fought for independence.

@@aquienpuedainteresar4188 Are you referring the 'new Puerto Ricans' of the 1820s-1870s? The Italians, French and Spaniard who became the wealthy elite the jibaro's despised? They are not as good an example as you think! The jibaro's had no problem burning their farms in 1899 because the were seen as a cruel oppresive elite. The main reason they are well remember now is because THEY WERE Italians and Spaniards who shared a common culture and religion to an extent with the Puerto Ricans. They assimilated quickly, and became Puerto Rican becuase it was relatively easy for a Catholic from Andalucía to adopt our culture. Trust me when i say that Anglos WILL not do the same. They will not 'become Puerto Ricans' just as they did not became Iroquois or Creek or Californio. If only a few came yes, but not if they come in huge numbers and move into these gated communities where Anglo-American Culture will be dominate. And your position seems to that Puerto Ricans have no choice but to accept this? Why? Who MUST we allow anyone to come and become Puerto Rican? Other nations don't? You cant just move to Mexico and immediately claim to be "Mexicano" because you lived there for two years! Why does the Puerto Rican need to do so. Puerto Rico is not New York.

@@isaacsmith899 Very well put!

The problem with Puerto Ricans is they have no ethnic/tribal identity. What most Puerto Ricans don't understand is that the whole world operates on tribal/bloodline/clan standards no matter if it's in Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Pacific Islands etc. Puerto Ricans don't have clan/tribe they belong to, that makes the term "Puerto Rican" a globalist identity. What are the rules/standards to being a "boricua"? There are none! Anyone can go there and claim to be anything. Group exclusivity via clan/tribal membership is essential for a people to survive! And you can see the disastrous results of that lack of ethnic exclusivity in this video.

I agree with you, but this former politician could have done things differently and left 50% of the apartments affordable for 5 years and gave these people time to work out the next move. He's a fart, no consideration for the local people. All about the $$$ and no heart. Unfortunately, this country is filled with greedy farts that only think $$$ and greed. A lot of them go to church every Sunday, yet are blind to looking out for others...

This is correct my family members are all owners of their land. If you pay rent you owe nothing and everything can be taken away from you.

And this absolute truth was hidden by the video. The lady could easily have purchased her own home for the rent she was paying. Then she would not get turned out.

You're being brainwashed by a pretty face. 🤣😂. Think about the issues at hand☺

Yeah, I am trying to figure out why I should care about the raising cost of living over the many many others in the US or Canada. Also a heads up, if we look at America's past, we can predict the future. Capitalism will win, the people will be displaced. 'Merica

Should've bought instead of renting

@@ComeBackKid1 these are lifetime homeowners being bought off Aka kicked out of their homes by corporations or wealthy developers.

@@nmwnomatterwhattimewilltak8608 They're renters , not " owners ".

@@ComeBackKid1 OWNERS can be bought or FORCED out too. Don't ASSUME things my friend, just because he said Black you assume they rented and not owned...Don't do that man.... "EMINENT DOMAIN" look it up.

That sounds extremely racist.

Exactly Jasón amen brother!

@bianca graulau locals should group together and get politicians to over turn the Jones act. You should require your congress people to ban together with USVI, Guam and even Hawaii to get the group of politicians to work together. You wont be able to overturn it yourself. Together you can probably gain buy-in to over turn.

Amén to that

@@subjidealist none of our Congress people have voting power -_-. Welcome to taxation without representation.

@@sanjuansito800 This is incorrect.The tax icentives are state approved not federal. Unfortunately, because the economy is bad and because PR is the US, we puerto ricans leave the island for money on the mainlnd leaving the island in a worse situation. Its all a circle

Thanks for the update!!!

@@ed209ish You're welcome. He live in Florida now, and is doing business in Italy.

Stinkin republican opportunist.

Christopher Columbus

That yt woman too

No respect for anyone or anything other than their own success. They can’t understand people live in peace in a humble existence and that their money is destroying peoples lives. They can’t see the damage they are causing by driving up the cost of living with their money. No respect for people with less means. That lady is disgusting. They ex politician is a real scumbag.

Well, yes, as I said the PR government must take some blame. They are the reason why independence is not yet reasonable. Can you imagine all authority given to corrupt politicans.

Que tristeza que pasen estas cosas men 🤬🤬🤬🤬🥺🥺🥺

Es una pena lo que esta pasando en PR. Con tanto que tiene para ofrecer. Y como puertortorriqueña de Vieques es peor la burocracia y el mal trato que reciben todos los dias mis hermanos viequensee. Es una verguenza!

Que bueno es ser Americano... Me encanta.

Totalmente de acuerdo con usted.