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Same thing. The cautions can be placed on everything without evidence like a lien, just file a document.

Deals can be made while awaiting the court case as long as both parties know about the lien.
Que said this but may not have been clear.
I have purchased about ten things with cautions.
Unlike Que who is sure he has a case, the cautions I ignored were without merit.

In each case the caution was dismissed when I refused to settle out of court.
The person who filed the cautions got tired of spending on lawyers, or the lawyers who took a percent instead of cash knew they could not win and abandoned the guy.

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Hello Dane,

hope your doing o.k. in Hawaii

You are right, this is true, many frivolous cautions are filed in Belize in the hopes that a purchaser will cave in and pay the "extortion" in order to get the property.

I assure you this is not the case here,in that specific case,there a couple of million involved and believe me,
Belize court have already * jurisprudence * regarding this particular case , I have lawyers that are not working on a contingency basis and a legitimate claim.

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I figured you had a serious claim.

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Can not Be more serious,new investors or new buyer should be aware of situation And legal aspect $ $$$ $$$

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If you publish the details it would reach any potential investor unfiltered.
Investors search online these days in what is called due diligence so they can come to the table with info not supplied and edited by the guy selling the deal.

Uh... I do this for a living, sorry, didn't mean to tell you what to do.

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Good advice, lots of purposely clandestine deals get done in Belize.
I cannot count all the investors I've seen get lead down the primrose path.
Good friend of mine took a beating years ago right there on Caye Caulker.

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for the curious ...

http://lilylilyphotography.com/2014/10/changes-caye-caulker-split/

read last two comments and you decide the real story now ...


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Short history of the Split. In the 70s the village ended at Oceanside. A small path went to the Split
You could swing across on a rope from a tree to the North Island..
MaryJo who founded Sandbox Restaurant built a hotel there that was tents.
Too many sand flies doomed that, but they cleared bush and made it more welcoming to visitors
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Later Russian and Alan Chan built some CC style wood cabins but that didn't make money either.

All this stuff was very much in the spirit of the split, including the series of seawalls without foundations that all collapsed.
OJ Holden of Oceanside made a big leap into promoting the social scene that you see now but lost the lease and series of folks took over the bar.

Along the way a group decided to build a big concrete monstrosity as our first condos on Caye Caulker.
There was a lot of opposition.
The design was not well done, toilet waste system was laughable for a condo project.
They worked in isolation from the villagers, boosting costs a lot with obvious errors along with septic.
They brought in a crew of gringos and non CC workers. That didn't go over well on CC.
Money ran out.
It sat there for years. Many hoped it would be torn down and the Split returned to its Caye Caulker character.
Several new folks in a row tried to fix up the building, mostly ignoring local advice as before.
Some were very earnest.
Most CC people just wanted it gone.
They began to dismantle it lately.
It has become the poster boy for bad development ideas that couldn't die because they seemed like a big money opportunity.
It seems to some people that CC style cabins would be a more appropriate path, with high tech septic.
That may not be the pathway to the greatest profit, but would match the character of the local style Lazy Lizard.

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Here is an interesting link for those adept with google map navigation.
Time lapse sat photos from 1984 to 2012
It doesn't zoom in enough to pick out most individual projects.
However if you know the island it's pretty cool.
Click on "Explore the world". enter Caye Corker, Belize.
You will still have to drag and zoom and center on Caye Caulker, click on slow speed.
You can see the airstrip, the village, Bahia, etc. all get developed from mangroves.
You can also explore your corner of the world, have fun!

http://world.time.com/timelapse/

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This is what the split used to look like.

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