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How Sean Is Building Wealth Through Belize Real Estate

Sean Armistead

Red RockPlacencia

“Anybody who knows real estate knows you want to buy at the beginning. That's how you build generational wealth for your family.”

— Sean

For Sean Armistead, investing in Belize was about more than buying real estate—it was about creating generational wealth. After setting a personal goal to purchase one asset every year, his first investment was at Secret Beach, followed by a second property at Red Rock. Sean first discovered Belize through a friend who had already invested in the country. That recommendation led him to connect with Shane Greenwell at RE/MAX Belize. Buying property in another country can feel intimidating, but Sean says Shane made the entire experience comfortable from the very first Zoom call. Every question was answered quickly, giving him the confidence to move forward.

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Sean Armistead. We are in Red Rock right now. What we buy in Belize is, you know, first is generational wealth, something that I just never had in my family and I wanted to implement that in. That's huge for me. I told myself that, you know, I want to buy one asset per year. And my first asset that I actually purchased was on Secret Beach. Second asset is here on Red Rock. When I first got to Secret Beach last year, I loved the hospitality of the Belizean people. I loved the food, of course, you can't go wrong with that. [Unclear at 00:33] And like I said, one thing is definitely to build that generational wealth for me and my family moving forward from there.

Shane was my agent and I came across Shane as Chris Davis, one of my guys. He's a cop in Houston. He was telling me about, hey, you need to look at Belize, look at buying some property in Belize. And Shane was his agent and he ended up buying a property. I said, you know what, let me look into this. So talking to Shane from the first Zoom meeting, it made me feel real comfortable because you have to understand, I live in Houston and buying a property that's from a different country is going to be a little bit difficult. But for the first meeting with Shane, I felt real comfortable meeting with him. Anytime I had any questions, concerns, he was Johnny on the spot.

It doesn't matter what time of day it was, he took care of my questions and made me feel comfortable about going through the process. That was huge for me for being able to do that and be able to trust him on taking care of business. What I recommend is buying, you know, buying property from Belize is pulling the trigger. You know, this is something that when I first bought my property in Secret Beach, I had no idea what I was buying, but I felt comfortable with Shane. And the process was the beginning process. Secret Beach was the beginning process of what they're trying to do over there. When I bought my second property here in the Red Rock, it's the beginning process.

you want to buy at the beginning. You don't want to buy at the middle or towards the end because that's where you can build a generation of wealth for you and your family.

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