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Baobab

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10. Land grabs problematic
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 09:07 PM
Mar 2016

Watch out for scam real estate developers who take advantage of people in your situation, they evidently push people who have living all their lives in various places out. They may have lived in some place all their lives but have no legal title and no birth certificate because they were home born, that means they don't exist legally in some poorer counties and cannot own land, and often a majority of the population is that way. Major scams are happening around the world that are displacing people in that situation - Basically what I am saying is that be mindful, don't assume that people who are offering to sell you land or a home - acquired it in an acceptable manner. A lot of the time these days they didn't. I would not want to live somewhere where the family that had lived there previously was run off the land by some RE developer looking to take advantage of the influx of Americans by strongarming locals out of what should be considered as their homes.

the same thing is happening on a large scale with farming land in Africa. Just Google "Land Grab" to read about it. Big corporations are doing this on a large scale.

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