We have 7 years of
experience in Chile and bought land because of the property rights, political stability, network of Americans and potential appreciation. It is an extremely beautiful and clean country, and although has bureaucracy, it is there to protect the foreign buyer and is navigable - much, much easier than Brazil and safer than the other South American countries.
Our problem has been we don't live there yet! We're in the final years of a long career outside of Chile, and have been frustrated trying to find the right people - who want to invest in development and thus have skin in the game - to make ecological and structural improvements to the large property. Plenty of locals (citizens and resident foreigners) are very willing to take money to perform jobs, but no one has been willing to invest even a little money and share the risk of developing a homestead, while we continue working outside of Chile. The large flat "parcela" has
Class I acreage and plenty of
water and is located in the main growing area, near Talca. We have now subdivided it into 22 lots, but is still bare land with cover crops and soil improvements being the only things done to it for the past 3 years.
We abandoned a mono-cultural hazelnut farm last year after learning that the required chemical applications were intense and included neonicotoids, even though the
project was entirely planned, funded and offered very lucrative returns.
We have land to
sell, grant, lease-option or share with the right kind of young family looking to homestead, while also bringing skills that will help develop the water, soil, sustainability and infrastructure. Spanish proficiency would be very helpful, as would construction/farming/project management experience. We've been burned once already, and know that finding the right individual is not easy......but this
thread was exactly the one I was looking for as I came back here to Permies for the first time in a year..
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