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I'm not buying the land to remove the houses. I'm buying the land so developers can't get their hands on it.

• icebraining 11y ago
  Oh, then you don't need to buy them, just wait a while. With very few exceptions (mostly a few "ecohouses" for foreign tourists), no developer touches those villages with a ten foot pole. Between the desertification of the region, the crashed real estate market and the cost of rebuilding those houses, the average return is probably between "terrible" and "catastrophic".
  • saalweachter 11y ago
    Not to mention the qualification of "... if the ownership rights were determined." Nothing like making a substantial investment and then -- if you actually turn it around -- having a couple dozen claimants pop up suing you for illegally occupying their ancestral/childhood lands.
    • icebraining 11y ago
      Yeah, like I wrote in another comment, I'm personally expected to inherit ~1/52 of a small piece of land ;)