Inese Laivinieks (originally from Cleveland) and George Laivinieks (a retired attorney from Chicago) are the owners of the Birds and Paradise Bed and Breakfast in Cuernavaca. Inese was a buyer for a large department store in Cleveland. Thereafter she worked in the trust department as a Pension Trust Executive for a large mid-western bank. Moved to Cuernavaca Mexico in 1995.

George, a graduate from the University of Illinois, college of Law, practiced law in Chicago for some 30 years and is now in semi-retirement in Cuernavaca.