So back in 2012, a friend recommended a big flat in a 10 story new built building in Alexandria Egypt, right in front of the beach. We both buy a flat Fast Forward 1 year after renovating the flat the way I like it, marble floor, granite kitchen counter-top, ceramic floor bathroom etc...
Civil war breaks loose and Egypt goes to shit. Now 5 years later still haven't found a good price to sell the flat.
My questions: What do you suggest or recommend I do now?
Wait a bit longer ?
How's tourism there nowadays, will it grow?
Should I furnish and start lodging for tourists, using airbnb.com or booking.com?
Advice would be much appreciated Thanks in advanced
I think waiting is your best option to be honest. Maybe one die Sand dwellers will get their shit together and you can sell at a profit. Have you considering putting your flat rented for tourism?
It seems to have a nice view, so it might work.
Tyler Richardson
yeah that's what I had in mind as I wrote in the post. But I need to know how tourism is there first, and more detail on how I would go about doing that correctly
Satellite view of the area
Luke Smith
is airbnb an option there? thats a sick view and could work depending on where it is in Egypt. Tourists are gravitating towards airbnb these days
Wyatt Reed
>buying property anywhere near the middle east.
idiot.
Jack Gutierrez
as I said in the post it's in Alexandria
also this Yeah perhaps, but who would have guessed a civil war would occur
Christopher Ortiz
AirBnB it dude.
Jose Stewart
Tourism has gone to shit with the civil war. Nowadays I never hear anybody talk about visiting Egypt, a few years ago it was a popular travel destination. People from my country always get diarrhea when they visit it.
Also, the area in which your apartment is based doesn't look too tourist friendly. Doubt it'll ever blossom up.
Chase Lee
I'll put that in mind
yeah exactly, that's why I thought it was a good idea back then.
Also the news about Egypt making a new city for it to be the capital east of Cario
Joseph Nelson
>who would've guessed
shiet man, did u not read all the NWO memes
Asher Kelly
back in 2012? I guess I didn't Plus it all started when the Tunisian guy burnt himself alive
Matthew Martinez
Sisi is a typical Egyptian strongman of the Nasser era who is cleaning up the rat's nest, if he can keep it up and totally eliminate all traces of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafists it won't be long before Egypt is a safe tourist destination again.
Jaxson Anderson
>Yeah perhaps, but who would have guessed a civil war would occur
You bought property in a 3rd world shit hole near to war, starvation, poverty and genocide.
idiot.
Aaron Richardson
how long would you give it?
We've acknowledged that already, say something new and as i said at the time there was no war
Camden Ross
Honestly no clue, problem is the mideast is, things are heating up in the Gulf and a big Sunni/Arab war vs Shia/Iran could be brewing.
Here is a creative idea though, with all the shit going on in the Gulf right now, instead of trying to sale to nervous westerners why don't you try and find a rich Arab buyer from the Gulf looking to get out of a region that could explode into war anytime now? Because if the middle east does descend into war at least Egypt is a few thousand miles away from where all the real fighting will go on.
Wyatt Cruz
>We've acknowledged that already, say something new >and as i said at the time there was no war
No you're a fucking idiot at the time as well, it's not "oh, how come SUDDENLY civil breaks out", you need to look at the trends.
If you see on your local news some dictator getting cocky and your next door country just finished genociding one group of people and children are blowing themselves up for religion in another neighbouring country you should KNOW its a shit place to do business.
It was suddenly, in 2012 that stuff you mentioned was happening?
Civil war had nothing to do with what extremists were doing. Civil war was first started in Tunis when a civilian lit himself on fire, then other middle east countries started protesting and you are telling me you predicted this would happen more than a year before this happened ?
Connor Foster
lmfao wtf? shit has been warming in that area since like the fucking 1970s bud
Owen Hernandez
no you idiot.
you bought your apartment in a shitty part of the world. its no different than me wanting to buy an apartment in San Salvador or in Caracas, sure you got a place but the surrounding area is still shit.
Connor Carter
OP seems like he has an IQ lower than 95.
Which likely means hes a smelly Arab.
Michael Wilson
>Yeah perhaps, but who would have guessed a civil war would occur
/pol/
Ryder Carter
Rent it out to tourists. You're on a beach ffs I think someone will definitely buy it out.
Rent it out for a few years until the price goes up.
Ryan Wright
yeah, exactly but then again are there any tourists ?
I am sure you've noticed you are the only one that's shit talking
you and your likes are the cancer of this world
Christopher Clark
>he didn't buy bitcoin in 2012 instead You could've been rich senpai
Jackson Sullivan
Egypt is still a popular holiday destination. Not as popular as it was and package holidays in relatively safe resorts are much more popular so I don't think AirBnB or rental would do particularly good.
William Phillips
cut your losses and learn to never buy any property in africa and/or muslim shitholes
Easton Robinson
Grow weed in your flat.
Liam Jenkins
yeah, it is unfortunate, I mean this flat I bought wasn't so expensive. Just wondering if I could make more profit or any other bright ideas
noted, thanks
Ian Collins
I don't my head shopped off, i'll pass
Deff. lesson learned
Elijah Thomas
Yeah and /pol/ has been saying there will be war in nearly every country
Henry Collins
Seriously, you're a border port town for the renewed insistent calls for Greater Israel. Your life is going to be shit over the next decade if you don't cut your losses. You're living in a hotly contested area.
Connor Perry
>you and your likes are the cancer of this world
you bought a shitty apartment in an Islamic shithole.
take me for an example, if i was to buy an apartment, I would chose places like New York, London, Vancouver, Hong Kong- Alpha cities and I do have an apartment in one of these cities.
You chose a islamic shithole to buy an apartment which only means that you are an Arab or at the very least a muslim, which means your mean IQ is below 100 which constitutes why you'd buy property in a shithole where the signs of civil war has been repeated time and time again since the 1970's.
Anthony Turner
I wouldn't take you for an example you are a sad cause mate, get a life
I am not really bothered over £ 100K I spent over it, I am guessing that's what you are butt hurt about. I really had a great time there.
Grayson Roberts
I'm guessing you don't live in the area yourself, right? Why not hire a local property management company and outsourse all the work to them to use it as a rental? Even if their fees eat up most of the profit, at least it's something. I'm surprised you've let it sit vacant this long. What's your friend doing with his?
Julian Foster
>Buys $130K shitty apartment in an Islamic shithole >A civil war happens and doesn't know why it happens and thinks its sudden >Doesn't notice the beheadings, the honor killings, the genocide, the starving people around him and his neighbouring countries
stupid Ahmed confirmed.
Also, 100K even in GBP is a tiny amount of money for an apartment; you wouldn't even buy a 400 sq ft studio in an alpha city with that amount.
go away Pajeet, be smelly somewhere else.
Kayden Rivera
Yeah, I don't Had a similar thought Well I didn't want to go their when trouble was sprouting, since it's calmer now, it's time do something.
Haven't been in touch with him lately, last we talked he was willing to wait.
Luis Evans
you have lots of time on your hands for being so stupidly relentless
exactly it's a tiny amount, so no big deal
Christopher Morales
LOL Arabs have been spouting this "Greater Israel" crap for 60 years yet the only border change since has been Israel giving up Gaza.
Israel couldn't even maintain control of Gaza and barely the West Bank now and you think they will control half the Arab world? this is why I think Jew conspiracists are retards, they are not grounded in reality or logic.
Lincoln Rivera
Just give your home to the Israeli's.
They'll know what to do with it.
Bentley Cooper
Do you not know how shadow wars work?
Austin Reyes
Is the renovation complete? Did it get damaged at all?
I'm sure there is still heavy tourism in Egypt, speak to an agency that can rent your flat out as an AirBnB
Austin Lewis
no damage, yeah renovation is complete, and I spent some time there myself.
Henry Jones
Get out of here with this cloak and dagger BS, there is absolutely no realistic way that Israel can run a fiefdom presiding over millions of Arabs and have any security for their people, it's logistically impossible.
Also if Israel wanted all that land, why didn't they take it all in 1967 when they obliterated the Arab armies in a week?
Jordan Sullivan
It does seem like the Muslims have greater and greater control over 'Merican thought nowadays...
'merican Liberals & Millenials are now pro Muslim and anti Isralei... funny how the tables flipped so fast.
Andrew Ward
They are having a state they control through Op Brownstone take care of it. (General Wesley Clarke's Wars were planned)
Easton Phillips
It does defy logic, and even pretending for a minute the Israeli government WANTED a Greater Israel, how are they going to populate it?
Ask an average American if they were offered a free home in the middle of Iraq or Syria if they'd take it. 99% would say absolutely not. Now imagine how many Israelis want to live out on a farm in the middle of nowhere surrounded by ski-masked Arabs who want to cut your head off? The only ones even crazy enough to live in the west bank are Russian emigres with nothing to lose and they only do it because it is a tightly compact area surrounded by walls and tons of IDF security. Such an arrangement would not work in the frontiers of Syria or Iraq.
The proof of all of this is the OPs problem right now, he can't find anyone who feels safe even living in a sea side resort town of Egypt much less the middle of the Arabian desert.
Carson Ramirez
>Buy an inexpensive eastern european blond hair blue eyed hooker to some albanian pimp >make her a sex slave to locals for 20$/fuck >make at least 200$/day for a few years >Dump the body into water when it dies from aids. >repeat the process.