My little heart has been (temporarily) broken. And my mind has been reminded of the fact that rather-less-than-nice people roam the planet, and for some unfathomable reason, seem to be allowed to go along their merry ways with what seems like not a moment’s worry about the consequences of their actions. Even in such a religious country as this, where you’d think people would quake under the continuous reminder of potential Catholic hell. Yes, I know that Karma will eventually dole out what’s due to each person based on how they treat other people, but it can seem slow in coming for those that have been effected.
Here’s why things are a little sad at the mo: after having seen what was for sure the most ideal spot for starting our dream, we were told by the middle-man who was liaising between the property agent and the owner of the land, that everything was ok with regards to the offered and accepted price of the land. Over the next week or so we went back and forth, even getting hold of some documentation, but were constantly asked for varying amounts of money ‘to connect something’, or ‘to fix something’ or simply as a show of good faith (the amount starting at R$10 000 to fix the house, R$5 000 to connect the electricity, and eventually just R$1 000 for … well, nothing really). We, thankfully, declined the offer of doling out random cash. A few days later the property agent called the owner to confirm that everything was still A-OK, and discovered the staggering truth: Mr Middle-Man had not in fact spoken to the owner, the owner had not in fact agreed to the price, and it turns out that he has some strange plan to build an office in the bush, for … who the hell knows!
If you’ve looked at the pics in earlier entries, you’ll see that there’s bugger-all around the site, so who in the world would make any effort to drive along what is often an impassable road due to how wet and mushy it is most of the time, to sit out there (with no electricity, phone or internet) in the middle of nowhere every day before trundling off home, potentially getting stuck in the mud along the way? And right on top of a piece of land (the part in the front of the property) that surrounds the start of a big river system, which means that he probably won’t actually get the permit to build and he’ll be stuck at the end of the day with property he could have sold but wasn’t clever enough to when the opportunity arose.
*Sigh* so we’re back to square one. Last weekend we went back to the same area and were shown, in order, 1) had a huge pond in the middle of it, requiring a bridge to be built across it in order to get to the forest, 2) an entire property built on a slope, and 3) another spot 1/6 the size of what we’re looking for L. Not quite what we were hoping for, and rather disappointing.
The up side is that I finally drove on the other side of the road! – the ‘other side’ coz here we drive on the right, whereas back home it was all on the left and I got pretty used to the same thing in the UK - *teehee* seriously almost got my head smashed in during the first year here by super-sonic buses hurtling down the steep hill outside my apartment while I gaily looked in the other direction J So that was pretty cool and surprisingly not that difficult to get my head around.
Anyway, holding thumbs that there’s some good news regarding other options to go and see this weekend… Think happy thoughts for us!
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