If you send an email I will send you detailed information about our Newspaper Adds. We place an average of 3 adds per month for our clients, so we have vast experience in this field.

My email is nelson@laintro.com

Nelson Grisales
Latin American Introductions
http://www.laintro.com

I also understand that there is no guarantee - someone else who place an add at the same time and newspaper got only one response.  I often see people (at least on the Russian Board) talk about not putting all of your eggs in one basket so to speak.  This is another basket to put some of your eggs in.  It may  work out, it may not work out.

Are you saying it's realistic for a 55 year-old K-Mart security guard (in bad shape) who scrapes his money together for a single trip to be looking for the 22 year-old model?  I think that's giving a bad message to the guys reading this board and encourages them to do something that will not be good for them (or the ladies).

I also saw a mid-40s guy in a wheel chair who wanted a wife in her early 20s who liked wearing bikinis around the house and would watch XXX movies with him.

If you think its realistic for these type men to be pursuing beautiful young women, then you yourself are not realistic.  I'm not saying they shouldn't be in this, I'm just saying they need to be realistic.  There's way too much agency hype out there and at best it's a waste of a man's time and money to pursue a beautiful early-twenties woman unless he's got a lot going for him.  If they do succeed, I believe it's too high a risk that the marriage will turn out badly (I've seen it happen).  I don't mean the men have to be attractive "financially" either, I mean in terms of their total attractiveness to a woman they have to be somewhere near them.  You can't buy love and there's nothing elitist about that, it's just common sense.

I think correspondence should be used to give you a period of time to discover potential differences that would make you and the lady incompatible and to weed out those who are looking for a quick marriage (they generally don't want to carry on through correspondence if they're out to marry quickly).  There's also quite a few of the younger ladies who are into this more to go out on the town with visiting gringos for some fun than to marry someone.  Not too many of those ones are into writing someone.  They usually frequent the on-site agencies.

I don't know, maybe you could correspond and keep it cheap.  No more than one call per week, no gifts, and if you find some ladies who seem honest and compatible, you could make a visit.  You might want to consider writing to ladies from some place that's not inundated with agencies and tons of gringos visiting every month.

Ruben had a great idea with the personal web page and publishing your own advertisements in the lady's country with the URL and your email address.  That would allow you to pick any place where there's a substantial population and not many (or any) gringos visiting.  We were advertising in Quito, Ecuador a while back with fairly good results, so I know there's interest among the ladies there.  The newspaper we were using stopped accepting agency ads though, so we were not able to continue.  That's an area you might want to consider trying.  You won't have much competition for the ladies from other gringos there and you'll be more assured that if a lady is interested in you, she won't be getting married three weeks before you intend to arrive for a visit.

Una cosa mas, si no estas estudiando español ahorita, debes empesar inmediatemente.  Si puedes publicar tus propios anuncios en los periodicos, no necesitas una agencia para corresponder con las mujeres Latinas.

Mil gracias por tu ayuda. Estude espanol dos anos durante colegio y para un ano en la universidad. Porque de mis estudios profesionales, no tengo mucho tiempo a estudiar la idioma ahora. Pero, hablo y escribo mas o menos. Tambien, tengo las ventajas tener muchos amigos de Americana Latina.
Me ayudan aprender sobre la cultura de diferente paisas y la idioma.

One thing that I would like to say is that it is hard for me now. I would love to be travelling and looking for the right girl. I know of all the possibilities there, but I have my professional obligations right now.

Another thing that I would like to say is that I consider myself a decent guy and a good catch. I'm not trying to be conceited, but I have a nice personality just like many other people, many people say I'm handsome, I have good morals and values, and come from a very good family of open minded people. Many of the girls I have met through the agencies in Colombia liked me. However, they didn't want to wait 2 or 3 years before marriage. I would tell them that I wanted to have a relationship and get to know them, but I did not want to get married any earlier than 2 years. I guess they took this as I wasn't really interested in them or something like that. So, they dropped me. Now look, I don't want to sound elitist or put people down, but I'm studying to be a psychologist and I will have my degree in 1 more year. My profession will enable me to bring home a nice penny, which will open the door to many opportunities for me and my wife, and our families. I was totally baffled when many of the girls who were in their early tweenties skipped over me, but went for a guy that was way older than them, but just so happen to propose to them within weeks of initially meeting. When looking at the careers and earning potential of some of those guys, not to mention poor attitudes and other baggage, many of them were not much better off than the run of the mill "K-mart security guard." Case in point, that girl that got engaged just before I arrived to visit her, well she herself had an undergraduate degree in psychology. She was 24 and I was 25 at the time. However, the guy that she got engaged to was a part time security guard and voluntary fireman. That's what she told me. She told me that the guy had lived with 4 other guys in an apartment just to be able to pay the bills. She also told me that the guy wanted to marry her, and bring her to the US, but he didn't want to travel back to Colombia to spend time with her family to get to know them better. I kept in contact with her, and I think she eventually married him. However, she wanted to come to the east coast with her husband to visit me after they had gotten married. I told her to buzz off. After that, I realized that she was nothing but a green card shark. However, it took me a couple hundred dollars in phone calls and gifts to discover this. Really, I got off easy if you think about how bad it could have been.

Another thing is this. I really like travelling to Latin America, but I realize that when I finish my degree and start working, I wont have the time to travel as much as I would like. So, I think I should really do some soul searching about what I want during this dormant period. I should decide about whether or not I want to just meet allot of girls, travel around, and have some fun. Or, if I want to meet a really nice girl for a serious relationship and marriage. I came to the conclusion that once I return back to Cali, meeting many girls for just having fun would be a waste of my time and money. However, if I go back with the right intentions of finding a potential wife, then it is definitely worth it.

For now, until I return, I have decided to date some latinas here in the states. I know of one girl, and it seems she has many of the qualities that I am looking for in a woman.

Chao,
Aaron

What's up? I hope you have good luck this time. Be as careful as you can. Give me some feedback on Cali. How has the city been lately? Have you gone to the discotech Shango in Juanchito? I can remember the last time I was there. I went dancing with four older ladies, about in their 30's, with another Colombian guy, and a younger girl. I wasn't trying to date any of the women. I only wanted to go dancing. However, one of the ladies who was a really nice, but heavy set, liked me. She was very outgoing and fun. She reminded me of some of my aunts here in the states. She invited me to go out with her and her friends. We all took a cab. All 6 of us in the same ride. We went dancing Salsa on a Sunday night until 5 a.m. I got so drunk, and I had to catch my plane to return back to the states at 7 in the morning. They brought me back to the agency. And the lady that liked me gave me a good bye kiss. Needless to say, I made it back home safely. This was at the Palace in C.J. in June of 2000. Keith, I don't know if you're a latin music lover, but I am. If you get a chance, and if you haven't done so already, buy some music by Grupo Niche and Orquestra Guayacan. Those brathas jam!!!

Fuerte,
Aaron