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Princess Realty Belize | Buyer-Centric Brokerage 🌟 Opportunity Is Everywhere—If You Know What to Look For Belize is brimming with real estate investment opportunities. From modest single-family homes to expansive resort developments, the landscape is as diverse as the investors it attracts. But before jumping in, it’s important to define what “investment” means to you. 💡 What Counts as...

Storage Discussion Lately, many of my articles have focused on tiny home living.  As a reminder, a tiny home is defined as a dwelling smaller than 400 square feet.  While not everyone wants to live in a tiny home, and conversely, not everyone prefers a large home, most people find their preference somewhere in between. Regardless of the size of the home, storage and display options are a major topic...

With the upcoming holiday season approaching you may be wondering how you can incorporate holiday minimalism into a minimalist lifestyle.Christmas can be a difficult time for people to embrace a new lifestyle. One of the reasons? We are bombarded by advertisements that encourage us to buy, buy, buy. And the way the adverts are done we feel like we have to buy, buy, buy. This...

Chances are, if you’re looking for real estate in Belize you aren’t thinking of equity. Except with our properties back in our home countries we always associate real estate with equity. What is Equity? Typically, when we think of equity we think in terms of monetary benefits. Specifically, we think of how much of a financial improvement our...

Vanilla Bean Inn came about as a result of watching an episode or two of “Golden Girls”. I didn’t watch the show very often however the concept must have stuck in my mind. Years later a couple of friends and I were talking and I mentioned my concept to them and Golden Girls, now known as Vanilla Bean Inn came to be more than a concept. The Concept Forward a couple...

Belize has long been known as a place where non-Belizeans didn’t have financing options for real estate purchases. While this was only partially true, it is true that mortgages were no provided to non-Belizeans for properties purchased here. In the following paragraphs you will learn a bit about off-shore banks and domestic banks and if they will provide financing. A final option is seller financing. In...

In recent days I have been involved in a conversation about Home Owner Association fees. The overwhelming consensus is that they are not good. And in some cases, they border on evil, to the point of having government intervention to make them illegal. This is a discussion about HOAs – good or bad.This conversation was sparked by an articled that was recently posted on...

Vanilla Bean Inn studio condos offer the perfect escape for vacationers as well as offering an excellent return on your investment. In your first year of ownership your gross return on your investment could be upwards of 25%. Include the mandatory homeowner’s fee in the calculation and you can still be around 20%. The image above is an...

If you’re interested in learning more about what a minimalist lifestyle might look like for you, here are several essential principles that will help you begin to discover the benefits in your life. A minimalist lifestyle isn’t just about living in a tiny home. It’s also a way of life as you will see from some of the memes I will be...