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Living the Costal Dream!
Wanted to pass on a well written travel blog – Matt is Missing.  I don’t know Matt – he is a friend of a friend, however in August he took a vacation to Nicaragua for a couple of weeks, fell in love with the country, and ended up staying quite a bit [...]

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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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An inspiring article from Forbes on Carlos Pellas Chamorro and the empire that has been built by he and his family over the past 100 years. 

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Improving infrastructure in developing nations is a big deal.  Infrastructure is what takes a country to the next level in economic development.  Whenever we visit Nicaragua, there is always new road infrastructure projects on the go and moving quickly!  I came across this great article on Beyond Borders Internet TV today talking about the [...]

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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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Wind Power in Nicaragua!

Check out this picture of a 16 mill wind farm 1 mile south on the Pan American heading towards Costa Rica at the San Juan Del Sur turn off.  Many people think they are an eye sore - I find them actually very ascetic.  This wind farm has a nice background as well!

The key [...]

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More good news for this growing tourism and investment destination!
If you have never heard of it The World is is a resort community that continually circumnavigates the globe.  It is in fact the only private community at sea.
We have heard news that they will be docking in San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua on April 23/24!  [...]

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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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As we have said a number of times on this blog - the level of media coverage in an area will bring with it increased traffic making for great investments.  If you get in before a location goes mainstream, your investment margins will be much higher.  Nicaragua is already starting to be known on [...]

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