A blog dedicated to entrepreneurial adventures around wealth building through offshore property investment in Central America. Our current focus is on Nicaragua
Posted in Media, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, tourism on Mar 1st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Living the Coastal Dream, Offshore Business, tourism on Feb 14th, 2009
I came across this great story today about a couple of families from Jacksonville Florida that used their savings and bought a piece of land 3 years ago in Nicaragua, started a business called The Surf Sanctuary, and have been living the ‘coastal dream’ every since. How did they do it? According to the [...]
Posted in Media, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, tourism, travel on Jan 25th, 2009
(Photo: Bill Wooten)
Despite a world financial crisis and a year of political turmoil here, Nicaragua’s small yet feisty tourism sector proved its resilience in 2008 by growing 7.2 percent, according to numbers released this week by the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR).
This from an article this past week in the Nica Times. INTUR is calling this [...]
We received an exciting email from one of our friends in San Juan about a Mountain Bike race debuting this year - The San Juan Howler! As described:
18K of Ox paths, single track, dirt roads, and river beds make ‘the Howler’ a mountain biking adventure to make even the most experienced racers HOWL!
The event is [...]
Today in the LA Times there was an article that listed the top 10 ethical travel destinations compiled by The Ethical Traveler in a study of the worlds 70 plus developing nations.
“Ethical travel” is defined by the organization as “an awareness of our impact as we explore the world.”
Latin America made up half of the [...]
A well written and vivid depiction of the beauty in Nicaragua by Tom Fordyce in the Sunday times. There is so much attention given these days to the poor leadership in this country and the associated strife it is causing, but people forget that you find these issues in many places. It doesn’t change the [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua, Real Estate, tourism, travel on Dec 12th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Las Laderas, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, tourism on Nov 11th, 2008
When we were up in northwestern Nicaragua earlier this year, the reason for the massive road construction project into the Cosiguina region of Nicaragua was to facilitate commerce for not only the peanut farming in the area but also to support the expected traffic from the new ferry that would connect Potosi with El Salvador. [...]
Posted in Coastal Dreams, Nicaragua, Offshore Investment, Retirement, tourism, travel on Sep 13th, 2008
I wanted to point of a great article on Nicaragua from the Toronto Star that talks to the changing face of Nicaraguan. Although the article focus’s mostly on on tourism, this should get any foreign investor excited about the potential of this amazing country. Nicaragua is still at the head of [...]
Posted in Offshore Business, Offshore Investment, Real Estate, tourism, travel on Sep 11th, 2008
Growing up in Canada under a socialized health care system and now residing in the United states under a system with private insurance companies, I can see the pros and cons of each system. Neither is perfect and like most systems there is always room for improvement.
However, one misconception held by many US [...]
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