February 2018 and July 2018
So we spent our 4th and 5th trips in search of a land for sale between the Panamerican and the Domitila Reserve.
FEBRUARY 2018
In February 2018, we walked the street at least 30 times, up and down, knocked at every door, asked every family living along this road, dialed countless phone numbers, talked to every landowner …
… and refused offers at frankly exorbitant prices.
We have walked so often this road that we ended up making friends. We were invited to a wedding and it was great! We made lots of photos and lots of videos for the newly weds. It gives them beautiful memories!
Meanwhile in Canada, we were trying to sell the house by any possible means. More than 70 visits, no offers. Even at discount! We wondered why? Why such a great opportunity did not interest anyone!
The moment was, it seemed to us, ideal to settle in Nicaragua where the economy, tourism, health, education were going well! But no… Everything was going quite wrong, actually.
Additionally, destiny can sometimes be some kind of a prankster.
It was only in the middle of the revolt in Nicaragua that the house in Canada finally got sold.
Suerte Maldita.
Clinging to 100% Noticias (the most popular news media in Nicaragua), we wondered whether we should revise our plans, of course. But we know that the Nicaraguans are people of heart who still refuse, to this day, to take up arms against their government, fighting with fireworks, strikes, saucepans and faith. Faith in justice, faith in the goodness of human beings, faith in God.
So we decided to stay the course, against all odds.
JULY 2018
Once the house was sold and emptied, our goods secured in a warehouse and enriched with the necessary to buy our land in Nicaragua, we went back and walk the streets of El Manchon again in pursuit of our beautiful project. Obviously, the atmosphere was gloomy and people were much less smiling… Nothing to do with the Nicaragua we knew.
But the prices had come down somewhat, of course. The country was upside down and many investors were gone, many expats too… Tourism was almost non-existent. Many people were losing their jobs and the economic situation could not be more uncertain. So there were many landowners who wanted to divest some of their plots of land, in order to ensure a few months or even a few years away from starvation.
We received an interesting offer to buy 3 manzanas, exactly where we wanted, overlooking the Mombacho and with a personal well to irrigate our land as needed.
One expense less.
Because here, a well is more or less US $ 900 in addition to the pump (another $ 250) and the water tank (another about $ 250) and the tower ( about $ 100). A total of 1500 US $. Not given.
We went to celebrate our victory with 2 cold Toña before going to the restaurant where we made an appointment with our salesman and our lawyer.
But once at the restaurant, the price had changed.
To our disadvantage, it goes without saying.
Misery…
So we left the table and we thought that El Manchon was well and truly over. Basta!
We never went back.
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During the rest of the trip, Nandaime was explored from East to West and from North to South, visiting a string of lands for sale at very convenient prices.
However, a new problem was waiting for us: papers in order.
Of all the lands we visited, none of the owners had legal papers to sell them.
We knew that fact existed in Nicaragua, but what we did not know was that it’s like that in the majority of cases.
New empty-handed return in Canada, this time without a house, without furniture, without a car.
And there goes 2 gringos in the street.
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Thank you mom for those two months of squatting at your place! I don’t know what we would have done if you had not been there 🙂
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