Friday, September 21, 2007

Finca de Escott

This is my mini finca in Cabarete! I bought this 5-6 years ago in two parcels and put them together and landscaped them which you can see by these photos took a while to get done!
I have had a gardener working here for years! I have bought truckloads of trees both flowering and fruit plus bushes that just flower and have planted loads of stuff from cuttings and seeds! I have eaten off of this property and so have many friends for years now! This last tree I paid 100 US dollars for 6 years ago! It was about 50 years old when I bought it and doesn't grow big! This Coconut tree I planted from seed (A coconut) and now it has coconuts growing from it 4-5 years later!
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I took a deposit and am selling this property yesterday! It saddens me a bit because I have really enjoyed this property over the years! The profit from it is too hard to pass up! I didn't list the property and sold it through a broker who was bugging me to sell it for about a year!
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Well he finally did it after I kept raising the price! The new owner will be a very fortunate person as he will have literally thousands of flowering shrubs/trees and vegatables!
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I am now going to purchase another property in another project that is not too far from this project and start all over again! I will have twice the size of the one I am selling or more depending on which one of my offers get accepted!
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I made some mistakes on this property which are correctable that I will try not to do again such as plant too close together because when they grow they crowd everything in! Everything grows so darn fast here it is amazing! I am also going to buy truckloads of black enriched dirt and build walls this time around so the landscaping is a bit more permanent looking!
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This time I also have other properties to steal plants from so I will do a lot of that! I will try and move some big stuff onto this property as soon as I aquire it!
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Look for pictures in the next couple of weeks of the new project and you will catch the beginnings of the new and expanded Escotts Finca!:)
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Hasta Pronto!