Since when is Morro do Alemao affecting the north east or any other part of Brazil besides Rio? Sort of like saying South Central L.A. will cause problems for you in Seattle.
Corrupt politicians are everywhere, it is just that they are a lot more subtle in the developed nations. Have a look at the scandal about the former Homeland Defense Agency head in the US.
Other than that you are right, exercise the same common sense you use when buying a property in your own country and you will lower the risks dramatically....
Beenthere....are you an agent?? LOL!! I see you didn't respond to my last post to you.
So, tell me, do you have proof that there will
NOT be manned space missions to Mars in the next 25 years?
I want to see the proof as I know some agents that are starting to sell offplan there!!
The last time you asked me for proof I asked you what you wanted, the newspaper articles concerning Keifer Robins or the police warrants? And concerning Viva Vida I asked you if you wanted testimony of the 33 homeowners...which one came in my thread and made a post, or the court documents from the lawsuits against the builder/agents? Please, just let me know, because I have access to any of the above you may need.
As far as you commenting on morro de alemão, that's one of the
worst favelas in the country! That place has a death rate of well over 120 per 100K!!! The entire country of Brazil's death rate is 27 per 100K and those naturally don't include the thousands and thousands that come up missing every year! As far as the northeast goes did you know that the most violent and dangerous cities are indeed in the northeast! Camaragibe, Pernambuco, a small city close to Recife last year recorded 181 deaths per 100,000!! To put that into perspective the most violent city in the U.S. before hurricane Katrina was New Orleans which had a murder rate of 53.1 per 100K!!! Do you want brazil's murder statistics? They're not pretty, and one can easily understand why brazil waited so long to start keeping statistics....semi-accurate ones anyway.
Do you want to hear the part that I
didn't tell the you about concerning Viva Vida here in Aracaju?? Besides paying 50-150% more than what the brazilian homeowners paid in the very same condominium for the very same houses, with the exception of a 1500-2000 pound sterling furniture package from Casa Bahia, besides the fact that every single one of them have been or are being extorted for another 10,000 reais, which they already paid 3+ years ago to an agent in England, Howard Davis, who proceeded to "disappear" for several months with monies paid for properties, they're being "asked" to repay this 10,000 to get their deeds, which only a couple of them have paid to this point and the one that I know that has paid still hasn't gotten his deed, do you want to hear the "kicker" in all of this?
Naturally the wonderful, information-filled,
honest agents in England that sold Viva Vida sold it as a "100% secure condominium, with armed security guards, electric fences, gated community, 24 hour door men" etc, etc. Well, they allowed people to start moving into the condominium before there ever was an electric fence, before there ever was a security guard, and the night that an English investor from London, a recent purchaser of a home in Viva Vida, Kevin Scott, got shot in the leg while being robbed in his home, hitting his main artery and lay on the floor losing half the blood in his body.....there wasn't even a doorman!!