Friday, June 21, 2013

How to buy & sell real estate in the bahamas

How to buy & sell real estate in the bahamas


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when i went down to the bahamas to look for real estate, i thought i knew everything i needed to know. After all, i had been in the business for over 20 years. I had bought and sold plenty of properties. I had developed large condominium projects in boston and other cities in massachusetts. I had owned a real estate agency and a property management company. A fortunate accident...
i started researching real estate in the bahamas. I spent many hours on the internet, spoke to other americans who had bought property there, and grilled the local real estate agents. I flew to the islands and looked at land. Soon i was making offers. It was a lot of work preparing to invest in the bahamas. And you know what? in spite of all my efforts and experience, i still made costly mistakes. Why? because i didn t realize how much i still didn t know.
caroline w., connecticut do unto others... I learned from my experiences, though, and it wasn t long before i was giving advice to friends who were interested in the islands. I did the best i could for them, but i m sure i didn t tell them everything i had learned that would have taken all day. Meanwhile, i had begun to develop 50 acres of oceanfront land on eleuthera. Soon i was answering the same questions for my prospective buyers. As i was sending a package of information to a buyer one day, i thought how nice it would have been if, back at the beginning, i could have found all the information i needed in one place. I could ...read more detail



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