When investing offshore, there are many risks you have to deal with. Local legal systems, level of political stability, ownership rights, crime levels, business transparency etc. The level of control an investor has over most of these is minimal, however understanding how to mitigate these goes a long way to reduce your risk/return ratio. [...]
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Posted in Coastal Dreams on Oct 5th, 2009
Great to see developing countries like Nicaragua making efforts to leave fossil fuels behind. With some outside help Nicaragua is making some moves to help bring power to 7000 families via solar energy. Nicaragua like many countries suffers due to dependence of foreign oil from countries like Venezuela. Nicaragua has some great development opportunities [...]
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Part 3 in our series on Buy Low, Sell High.
Part 1 - Buy Low Sell High
Part 2 - Buy High Sell Low?
This could be a fantastic opportunity to buy low and sell high. This lender-owned property is ready for the smart investor. The lender needs to remove the asset off their books so they [...]
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Continuing our conversation about buy low/sell high started in our last post, here is an example of someone who bought high and sold low.
In this case the sale was a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. The buyer (owner) could not afford the payments so the buyer gave the property back to the lender. This is still a [...]
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Posted in Coastal Dreams, Media, Offerings on Jun 15th, 2009
Most of us have heard the story of the lemmings. Wikipedia describes their behavior as such:
“On occasion, and particularly in the case of the Norway lemmings in Scandinavia, large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They will stop until the urge to press on causes them to jump off the cliff [...]
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Our volcano surfing post from early 2008 is one of our most highly hit articles. Today I just noticed an article that ran in the New York times on this sport - entitled “A sport erupts on a live volcano in Nicaragua“! A continuing theme of Nicaragua breaking into the mainstream media more and more. [...]
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Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua on Feb 5th, 2009
Some great marketing by a Nicaragua cigar maker! As soon as Obama won the November election, Granada 1524 Cigars of Corona, California, began shipping Obama Presidential Series 44 cigars out of Nicaragua to the U.S. market. They exported 20,000 cigars in December and January. Retailing at $15 - $20 each - not a bad [...]
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Recently we had one of our readers contact us. He is considering Nicaragua as an investment location but had some concerns about Daniel Ortega and all the recent media surrounding him. We really appreciated the message and thought we would share our response back with everyone. We share the concern that some [...]
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Posted in Coastal Dreams on Jan 1st, 2009
I always like to take the end of the year to relax, reflect and re-energize. Its a time for looking back at the blessings, and learning’s from the previous year and thinking about the upcoming year ahead. I am not a big believer in resolutions - the term itself seems to imply problems that need [...]
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Playa Madera is a great sandy beach with easy access (assuming you are not traveling during the rainy season) only about 15 minutes by car north of San Juan Del Sur in South western Nicaragua. While considered one of the more popular beaches to the north of San Juan, it is still relatively quiet, and [...]
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