With this amount of cash and a mall that has a movie theater, you must be a minor LP in a much larger project.Usually there is a round of investing just to acquire the land.

I'm not an attorney,  but I believe you need to take out permits prior to doing the work.

I'm looking for a software that makes it easy to upload and track expenses, income, etc.

Go ahead and file.In real life it costs you time to figure it out and money.

Does anyone have experience borrowing money in the US to build in Belize?

I think their logic was that a family with 12 people (parents and 10 boy children) would have difficulty finding a suitable house with say 6 bedrooms.In addition to the Federal guideline, some local ordinances address occupants both tenants and owners. 

-Legal Protection: A real estate attorney should draft the seller financing agreement to make sure your interests are protected.Final ThoughtsThis might be a pretty awesome first project if you can work out some sort of low-down, seller-financed deal with sweet terms.

the real money is in talking to groups to see if it can be taken out of the flood plain and if there is other homes that have. we purchased a piece of land for 8k and got it out of the flood plain and it was worth close to 40k. land entitlement is one of the highest money making activities. check with the local zoning office or national firms a lot will take a look for no cost and if you can get sewer and water and developable by raising it out of the flood plain you are good for some $$ we did this in newark ohio with a single family home plot that we ended up building on and had to raise the land up 6'. it's a suburb of columbus ohio

I'd make sure to run this by him too for a second opinion. 

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