I first met Phil Hahn in 2010. He had already founded one successful oceanfront development in Belize and was moving on to his next project… a 98-acre inland residential community in the Cayo District that he called Carmelita Gardens. At the time, the project consisted of nothing more than a couple of roads plus a […]
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“Wow. This is really something.” It was the late 90s, and I was sitting at a palapa in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The unspoiled beauty of everything that surrounded me had me completely stunned. Back then, Playa del Carmen had a population of about 50,000 people. By the early 2000s, it had become one of
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“Wow. This is really something.” It was the late 90s, and I was sitting at a palapa in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The unspoiled beauty of everything that surrounded me had me completely stunned. Back then, Playa del Carmen had a population of about 50,000 people. By the early 2000s, it had become one of
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When it comes to property buying, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with foreign currencies over the years. My first currency hero was the Brazilian real. I bought a property on the beach in Brazil as the market was trending upward. After just nine months, I sold it and realized a 28% gain in Brazilian real
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Lock In Savings By Renovating An Overseas Property In 2023 A real estate market slowdown is the perfect time to do renovations. Speculative construction projects are grinding to a halt. Builders have less and less work. This
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How I Ended Up In A Self-Sufficient Community In Belize: Plus, Updates From Carmelita Gardens’ Owner I first met Carmelita Gardens’ founder, Phil Hahn, in 2010. The gregarious Michigan native had moved to Florida for college a year before and established his own design and development firm in
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