Just got word from Roy that the new lot legends are registered with the official “Land Registry” of Nicaragua! didn’t take too long since Roy told me that they are willing to increase to lot size…
May 252010
May 192010
Roy just sent me an image of the workers moving the markers of the lot. Now I’ll have more space to place the house on the leveled area that we will create by cutting the land down.
Comparing this to the way the lot looked when I was there, I begin to understand why they called it “the dry season” back in February…
Mar 302010
I just got some great news from Roy. He and Alan, the local engineer of the Development, went to see the lot to figure out where exactly to make the “cut” that will provide the best area to built on. As you can see in a previous post, they too realized that lot is about 7 meters from the road most of the horizontal build-able area sits between the lot and the road. So now Roy informed me that they agreed to move the lot markers 3.5 meters (11 feet) to towards the road, thus increasing the lot size, and, more importantly, increase the area I can build on!
I check with Roy about the process of updating the lot in the Nicaraguan land Registry and he says that it’s a straight forward procedure that costs 300$.
Mar 282010
I’ve took the contour data that Roy sent me and used a 3D modeling application to make a horizontal “cut” at different heights.
Here is rendering of the lot’s shape, with a cut I’ve made showing leveled ground. The view is from the south west towards north east, and the sun is setting down on the west. The orange “polls” are markers of the lot corners, and the four square “stones” placed on the cut are there to get a feeling of the actual space that can be used for the hose.
Lot cut March 27
It’s obvious that there is not a lot of wiggle room, and at least some of the house would have to build towards the south where the ground slowly slops down. It’s a pity that a large area of the leveled ground is outside of the lot, in the area between the lot and the road.
Mar 082010
I just received the topography contour map from Roy. Now I have an autocad representation of the lot 3D shape. In the image you can see the general shape of the lot, the contour lines, some trees on the loot (in green). The north is to the right, so the upper part is the west, where the Pacific Ocean rests. The numbers are height points in meters.
Topo map, M25, March 8
It’s hard to see through all of the numbers, but you can see the the lot slopes down towards the west, while the eastern part is relatively flat (the contour lines are farther apart from each other). Each line is exactly half a meter lower or higher than the lines next to it.
I’m a bit surprised when I see the height points are around 100 meters (~ 330 feet) above see level, and ask Roy whether the scaling is wrong, and maybe it’s 100 feet and not meters.
Another thing visible in the contour is the road that travels from north to south few meters east of the lot.
