Stay in Buenos Aires Blog

…so they call me

My name is Alejandra and I’m a 25 - almost 26 years old entrepreneur. Yeah, young people can also be responsible and run a business, in fact I’m the oldest of Stay in Buenos Aires’s team! I’m of Dutch and Colombian decent, and I’ve lived in Argentina since I was four years old.

Here is a short story of how I started Stay in Buenos Aires:

My mom runs a Guesthouse for Tango Dancers (Lina’s Tango Guesthouse) since 1995, so I spend the last years of my adolescence with many many tourist around at home. A couple months right after the economical collapse in 2002, while I was trying to kip studying at University, I heard this salsa song of Ruben Blades that says: “If lemons rains from heaven, you better learn how to make lemonade…”

I know, is not a glamorous beginning, but that’s the way it happened. I made the first website at my moms computer -which was quite ugly by the way, but she loved it of course- and I was working basically renting bedrooms in family homes. I was working with people that had an extra bedroom at home, had no job (or not well payed job) because of the crisis and did not know how to promote their services to tourists. I have to say tourism began to grow that summer in Buenos Aires, thanks to devaluation. But one year later, this people learned pretty fast how to do this, so I moved the business to the apartment’s rental service.

In 2004 I also ran my own B&B for one year with my then boyfriend: El Bataclan

In April 2005 Francisco started to work at Stay in Buenos Aires, in December same year Gaspar started, Paul -my brother- started in June 2006 and now we have the Yankee working with us since mid November same year. So this is the great team that makes Stay in Buenos Aires the best letting agency. I hope this post encourage them to introduce themselves.

Ok, I’ll be happy if you leave a replay and it might encourage me to write more…