Hi, I'm Peter. Hello, I'm Raquel. And we're from Atlanta. We had been working overseas in the Pacific for about a year. We came back to the U.S. for jobs. We found it to be suboptimal and we started talking with some of our friends that had property overseas. A friend of ours was really enthusiastic about Belize, the culture, the demographics, the stability, the weather, and we started looking into it. And here we are. When we heard about Belize, we were looking to buy property. We had been looking in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and all of those places are wonderful in their own ways. They have some of their strengths, but we settled on Belize because it's perfect for us.
And it's generally just perfect. when we came to belize we found RE/MAX and reuben largely by luck like we were at a dinner party one time with this friend who was like talking about his his uh place in belize and how awesome it was and i was like you know what let me look up right let's google this like let's see real estate agents in belize and RE/MAX came up we did our little research put in for a contact form and And by the luck of the draw, we got Ruben. And we found out he was amazing. And now he stuck with us. Well, since we've bought property here, we feel fantastic about it. Every year that we've come here, we've seen the changes. We've seen the possibilities. We've seen the growth.
I mean, every time that we come, it's just like, wow, we just really feel good about this, that we own land here. and like we can do what we want with it. The sky is the limit. Well, 36 feet is the limit. Okay, well, oh yeah, according to building. But yes, it just makes us happy. Every time we come back, there's a little progress and we feel a little bit smarter. Like when we pulled up on our land yesterday, we saw how close we were to the ocean. We could see the bars from the end of the road. And by the time we come back, I would be surprised if it's not a little closer or on the beach. once you see things develop and you're like, oh, when I bought it, it was not this cool.
And now we're light years ahead of where we were. So I feel smart. If you're thinking about buying property, do your math. Like investments are risks. So there's, there's no like a hundred percent guarantee on anything. But if you're going to bet on something, I would bet on something that's like exponentially changed since its inception. Like we've seen the like satellite photos from 2016 and there's nothing there. And now there's like everything. There's a lot of land being developed, a lot of like new houses, people are there. Like check, check your numbers. If you have an idea, it can probably be done like with the possibilities of owning.
and if you want to build on it four little units if you want to build one big unit land bank land bank if you want you're gonna figure something out yeah you can make it your own so that's that's probably the best part of it
