Humberto and Elsa Valdez are breathing a bit easier after getting a check from Grupo Concordia.

It’s the first payment of the $74,000 that the Tijuana real estate company agreed to give back after it couldn’t deliver the Rosarito Property the couple wanted to buy.

In March, Grupo Concordia’s corporate attorney Jose Roberto Figueroa explained to NBC 7 Responds the pandemic forced Mexico to shut everything down for almost two years.

Humberto says despite the delays, they kept making $1,000 payments every month.

“We had to stretch our bottom line really, really hard,” he said.

In the end, the construction company in charge of the project was unable to continue, according to Grupo Concordia.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the couple received the first of five payments from Grupo Concordia’s

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