A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela.
Edited by Walter LIppmann
We are pleased to present www.SePermuta.com that is a new initiative to offer free service for publication and search for direct information about homes for Cuban residents.
For several decades, housing for Cubans who own their own home has included the possibility of exchanging it for another on a one-to-one basis or group of houses that are valued equally to the one being offered.
Having this possibility there are quite a few in Cuba who have dreamt of the ideal exchange like the one achieved by our beloved Rosita Fornes in her role as Gloria in a Cuban comedy with the same name, “Se Permuta”. In the film, Rosita plays a modest seamstress with airs of grandeur, who began her career in exchanges moving from Guanabacoa to El Vedado to remove her daughter from the influence of a humble mechanic and at the end almost has her hands on the mansion she had always dreamt about.
The film “Se Permuta” is a Cuban comedy directed in 1983 by writer and script writer Juan Carlos Tabio acted by Isabel Santos, Mario Balmaseda and Ramoncito Veloz.
The purpose of www.SePermuta.com is simple: to offer Cubans the possibility of advertising and searching for exchanges of houses, on the Internet, throughout the Island. In this way we place New Information Technology and Communications to improve our quality of life promoting access to a more productive style of life with the help of Internet.
A very important point is that: SePermuta.com is a personal initiative that has no profit interest and where You, can try to find an exchange of houses in Cuba and we categorically declare that we are in no way connected to housing agents or intermediaries. Our Web makes easy a direct exchange between homeowners to help you sidetrack agents and intermediaries.
If you or a friend has Internet access, at SePermuta.com you can search among 5000 exchanges and view photographs of homes on the Web. In this manner there will be no need to visit the homes personally and make practical and efficient decisions.
We hope that our site on The Net will become a place for those who are seriously looking for a change of homes in any part of Cuba. If you are one of these, surely, with us, you will find what your are looking for. Also, if you have a friend who might be interested in our web site you can recommend they visit www.SePermuta.com. Just think that while more people know we exist there will be greater possibilities of finding our exchange in Cuba.
Sincerely we place at your disposal www.SePermuta earnestly wishing luck in finding the exchange of homes you would like in Cuba.
Administrator of www.SePermuta.com
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