A blog dedicated to entrepreneurial adventures around wealth building through offshore property investment in Central America. Our current focus is on Nicaragua
Posted in Coastal Dreams on Jun 20th, 2010
The Global Peace Index 2010 (GPI) revealed recently that Nicaragua remains the second safest country in Central America. The study conducted by GPI evaluates over 149 countries and includes indicators such as the levels of military expenditure, its relations with neighboring countries, number of homicides, level of organized conflict and the level of respect for [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, E Travel Adventures, Offshore Investment on May 10th, 2010
Marketing guru Seth Godin published a great post today entitled ‘Surfing is the new career’. Seth says:
Talk to surfers and they’ll explain that the entire sport comes down to the hunt for that blissful moment that combines three unstable elements in combination: the wave is just a little too big to handle, the board is [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment on Nov 9th, 2009
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. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, Real Estate, Retirement on Jun 29th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua, Real Estate on Jun 21st, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, E Travel Adventures, Nicaragua, tourism on Apr 19th, 2009
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. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Media, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, Real Estate on Jan 6th, 2009
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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