Roatan Needs You!

With an estimated population of 65,000 people on Roatan, there is great opportunity to do business here. Picture your neighborhood where you currently live and take a few guesses as to how many people actually live around you, THEN look at the businesses, restaurants and stores around supporting that customer base. Here is some motivating items to ponder.

   

• Roatan is growing, we had about 30,000 people in 2002!.
  
• Shopping malls, offices and new restaurants are in development
  
• Roatan technology is advanced (broadband Internet, satellite TV, cellphones, computer/networking services)
  
• People travel on the island by car, scooter, boat, and bike.
  
• Most stores, bars, food establishments within walking distance from home.
  
• We need service techs, contractors, white collar, blue collar workers, educators and so much more.
  
• Roatan is becoming a free port. Tax only on goods sold!
  
• Roatan has cruise boats docking in Coxen Hole every week (2,900 passengers)
  
• Flights in and out of Roatan from Thursday through Sunday
  
• 2 hours from USA
  
• 2 major hotel franchises have purchased land here
  
• Golf course in development
  
• 2nd largest barrier reef in the world, with unlimited snorkeling, diving and water activities
  
• Most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean and World
  
• 85 - 95 degree warm weather year round
  
• Outside the hurricane zone, last one was Mitch 9 years ago, caught the backside of us.
  
• Island PARADISE

Retirement is now recommended as a "phase" retirement, where you work part time, invest, save and participate in leisure activities when all possible slowly working your way into complete retirement. Roatan is the perfect fit!

Looking back as far as 1998 in real estate. Many beach front houses were $250,000, now they are over $500,000 for the same property and size. Investment opportunity is here on Roatan and we have much more room to continue. Roatan is 30 miles long and 6 miles wide. The average house with ocean front in the Caribbean on a developed island such as Roatan is about $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 and up depending on square footage. Cost of food, goods is as comparable or cheaper to the states in the USA.

Recent articles in Time magazine and Business weekly have continually expressed how most baby boomers near retirement have spent their 401k's, have lost money in the stock market, especially the ".com" crash and are looking for money to invest for a 2nd home and real estate property.

CNN.com recently published that Roatan is the world's #1 place to buy a 2nd home. Exciting on Roatan Island are all our new retirement planned communities and resorts, with full amenities, pools, fitness centers, shopping, gated, 24 hour security and more.