Bolivia situation guide
Putting a number on the table, carefully
Depto A is chosen and verified, this is where the transaction itself begins. You supply the offer amount as [monto]; this app never suggests a figure, a discount, or whether a price is fair. What it teaches is the Spanish that keeps you safe while you negotiate: naming your amount, asking if there's margen, and conditioning everything on the hipoteca being lifted and the documents being en regla. Andrea carries your words to la apoderada and back, she recommends nothing about the price itself, and neither does this app. The offer can start as a spoken message, but a careful buyer always asks to see it in writing before it means anything.
Essential vocabulary
- quisiera hacer una oferta: I would like to make an offer The soft, usted-register opener that starts the close, a question, not a demand.
- mi oferta es de [monto]: my offer is [monto] The amount is always your own [monto], the app never fills in or suggests a real number.
- condicionada a que se levante la hipoteca: conditioned on the mortgage being lifted Carries the informe's one observación into the offer itself, the mortgage must be lifted before the firma.
- sujeta a que los documentos estén en regla: subject to the documents being in order The second half of every offer's condition, no offer in this notebook ever stands unconditioned.
- ¿hay margen en el precio?: is there room to negotiate on the price? The culturally normal opener before an offer, a question, never a tactic for how to answer it.
- ¿qué incluye a ese precio?: what's included at that price? Clarifies parqueo, baulera, and other inclusions before you commit to a figure.
- ¿lo consultamos con la apoderada?: shall we check it with the apoderada? Keeps every step routed through the seller side via Andrea, never assumed or decided for her.
- prefiero que quede por escrito: I'd prefer it to stay in writing Turns the first verbal offer into a written one through Andrea, the habit that protects both sides.
Bolivian Spanish terms
- la apoderada: the seller's proxy holder The seller side is handled by an apoderada acting on a verified poder (checked in Nb5), negotiations always go through Andrea, never directly.
- la baulera: storage room/unit A small storage unit that often comes bundled with a Santa Cruz apartment, alongside the parqueo, worth confirming before an offer, not after.
- de palabra: verbally / on someone's word Offers often start 'de palabra' in Bolivia, the careful buyer's move is asking for it in writing next, through the agent.
Useful phrases
- Andrea, quisiera presentar una oferta: [monto], condicionada a [X].: Andrea, I'd like to present an offer: [monto], conditioned on [X]. The complete offer skeleton: name, amount as placeholder, condition attached.
- ¿Hay margen en el precio?: Is there room to negotiate on the price? The normal opener before naming your figure, a question, never a tactic.
- ¿Qué incluye a ese precio: el parqueo, la baulera?: What's included at that price: the parking, the storage room? Confirm what comes bundled before treating any figure as complete.
- Prefiero que la oferta quede por escrito, a través de usted.: I'd prefer the offer to stay in writing, through you. Moves a spoken offer to a written one, still routed through the agent.
Learn this in the app
Property Closing and Handover in Bolivia, Spanish