Only three days until I get on that plane, cross the Ocean and settle on my land in Guatemala!!! As I am preparing the final details, I am trying not to forget anything before I go. I am not talking about the material, people abroad eat, drink and dress just like you, so anything you… Read more
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10 things to note about Guatemalan real estate
Last week, I talked about what $250,000 to $1m can get you on the Guatemalan property market. It was a long post so I split that second part about the specifics of Guatemalan real estate.
What do you get for $250k, $500k, $750k or $1m in Guatemala?
I saw a few posts lately about real estate in different cities around the world, and wanted to add my own Guatemalan experience. For more posts, you can check:
From no car to two cars in 6 months
After not owning a car until I was 29, at the moment, I have two cars. One I bought at an auction in Miami, and brought back to Guatemala on a boat, which is a story in itself, that you can read more about here, and the other one is a beaten up Suzuki Samurai,… Read more
How to make money from the property market
While there is plenty to be said in favour of the old adage ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’, and plenty of evidence to show that small-scale savings and investments eventually reap big-scale rewards, anyone looking to improve their financial situation would do well to look at… Read more
Buying commercial real estate: the check list
Buying commercial real estate can be a great way to diversify your investments, and if you own your own business, to stop paying rent and build equity instead. Here is a check list of things to do before you take the plunge. Why do you want to invest Depending on why you want to… Read more
Reduce, reuse, recycle… or resell to make money
As I have explained before, I hate waste. Wasting food, energy, getting rid of good items, means you are throwing money you worked for. It is a matter of time spent working for nothing, and also of education, the way I was raised, you had to make do with what was available. … Read more
Real Estate: How I sold my rental property… again!
It has been a tense week last week, mainly because of the sale of my studio flat in the suburbs of Paris. I had found a buyer back in June, and the legal contract took months (his lawyer’s fault) to write, so we eventually signed a sale at the beginning of August. You can think… Read more