“I have pawned things so as not to go bankrupt”: Pachuca tenant

PACHUCA.- For Andrea Marisol the new closing of shops non-essential that ordered the town hall of Pachuca means the bankruptcy from his store of gifts and seasonal items, deal that he has survived through loans he planned to pay for with the January sales.

In itself, he says, he had to fire his employees and, in mid-2020 Hill a restaurant, due to low customer demand; today, along with 250 other merchants from the Historic Center of Pachuca, asks the city council for flexibility to keep its assets afloat.

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In an interview with La Silla Rota, Andrea Marisol Godínez Longoria commented that in order not to leave his store has resorted to loans.

We have pawned things and borrowed … we owe back rent and I had to fire the people who help me. “

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The merchant planned that the December sales and from Kings Day they would help pay off the loans and pay a portion of the back rent.

We were going to start to level, but no: last Tuesday city council personnel arrived to ask us that, by disposition of the health authorities, to avoid the increase in cases of covid-19, I had to close my premises indefinitely. “

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Since the pandemic, in March 2020, sales decreased; although it was in May, June and July of that year when there was no income.

I had to fire the people who helped me; now I alone take care of the business because it no longer goes out to pay salaries “.

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Monthly, he says, he pays between 15,000 and 20,000 pesos of rent for a premises; In other words, the three-month rent that he owes is about 50 thousand pesos, money that he has not been able to raise.

If there is flexibility on the part of the owners of the premises, but they too are losing. It affects absolutely all of us, both the people who rent to us and the suppliers themselves. “

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HILL A RESTAURANT

Before the pandemic, Andrea Marisol had a restaurant in the vicinity of the center of Pachuca. However, Hill mid-year, as customers began to run low.

I was left alone with the gift shop and seasonal items. There, in the ten months that the pandemic has been going on, we have had losses of up to 60 percent. And this is not just me, it is practically all merchants. “

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Finally, the locataria He asked for a favorable response from the authorities so that they can open their businesses “because we have always complied with the necessary sanitary measures; in addition, we pay taxes and services, we do not deserve to be treated like this.”

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