Mike & Claudette Russell | Investing in Belize

Hi so my name is Claudette Russell and I'm from Florida. I'm Mike Russell and I'm married to this one so I'm from Florida as well. How did we learn about Belize? We were watching, well I was doom scrolling on YouTube one day [Unclear at 00:16] and then a few weeks later I was sitting in my room one Sunday and we booked some flights and we came to Belize. I think it was just the country, it just looked really really beautiful. It was like we need to go out there and check it out. Yeah, one of those places that you see it and then you have to go and see it for yourself.

So we're investors and we build houses in the US and one of my investor friends said to me a long time ago we should own investments in places that we want to be. So that's where we came to Belize. How did we move the process forward? How would we get in contact with RE/MAX? On your videos, you do the great thing of actually telling us who you are and how we can contact you. So at that point, we reached out to... Will. Will, there you go. So we reached out to Will, and then he linked us into one of your agents. Then we did some liaising, came here.

and unfortunately he was unavailable and then Lelo took us on the tour for a couple days and I think that's what clinched it because we got to see Belize from a local's perspective rather than someone who's just come to the island so he took us everywhere we saw school we saw local breakfast we went to secret beach two days straight we had a wonderful time and we only came for three days so we literally were in out and off we went I came to buy some land was talking to Scott he was providing me a ton of information which is key I'm an investor I want to see numbers figures facts so he gave me a ton of information and some options and I told him I'm coming to buy so I flew out for maybe three days last November and he took me around showed me what I needed to see gave me the information I wanted and I am impatient I want to move really quickly and Scott allowed me to move very quickly in three days.

I would say definitely come out and visit first. Take your time. Get to know where the area that you want to build because obviously there's lots of places here now. The people that obviously that we've met through RE/MAX and that have been great. Yeah, just come and visit. I think stay for a few days, visit and then come back and then purchase. For me, you really need to understand why you're coming to Belize. If you're coming to invest, treat it as an investment. If you're coming for a second home, work out where you really want to be. Everybody you need is here. You just need to leverage that information.

So the RE/MAX team will give you facts, figures, talk to the local people, make sure you really understand why you're here. And then if you are coming, hurry up. [Unclear at 03:17]