Monkayo and 4 more projects at 1B each revenues? (in next 10 years?)

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

Potential target cities:         Ta...m   300,000 pop  (MP exists)

                                            Pa...bo  200,000 pop  (MP exists)

                                            M....ayo  90,000  (cemetery at the Bo)

                                            M..i        148,000  (Camus)

There could be  a room for a better one....

A mate in physical fitness showed me docs of a property in Mindanao - at first I was not interested

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

A senior biker just like me at high hills in our town showed me docs of property in Maindanao in Compostela valley.  The property happened to be owned by the wife of a former staff who now works in a Casino in this town.   The bikemate happened to have a daughter in law working as a branch manager of the top Unibank in the Philippines.

At first,, I was not interested  but later on found out that:    1.  That the municipality is thickly populated    2.  It is a first class municipality whose annual income nears 10 numbers - even bigger than the town I am now.    3.  The town is where the  gold rush mountain is located.  It produces roughly 50% of the total precious metal output of the entire island which is 50% of the total mineral output of the Philppines (so roughly 25% of the total precious mineral output of the entire country.   (This is where I heard the story before that the taxi to the mining sites are Patrol Safari.)  4.   It is only 60 km north of Tagum, the banana capital of the Phl.     It is not that far to Davao City.

At P8,300 per gram,  x 30,000 ounces (x 25.4 gm per ounce.)

What are the opportunities:    1.  mineral trading, 2.   housing,  lending/finance    3. our memorial business,    There is new cemetery at Baylo.  The site is 3 km further up at Gabanan

Several things can be opportunties:   1.  precious metal business -  your best bet vs. recession inflation,   2.  agri food production (for survival)    3.  RE -  hydro or solar

Gold mining at Mt Diwalwal





Travel from DC to Monkayo

Risk management or being ultraconservative?

Nation building via learning and being the best in business

This post just show collapsed building at the cities in Southern Philippines which experienced magnitude 7.8 tremors recently.     Many have been injured many have died.

We had a project in Polomolok, a municipality 15 km from Gen San and we could have gone on investment spree at neighboring towns which now are very progressive.

But the recent earthquake may have pushed back progress by a couple of decades.  Maybe reconstruction will be quick.  The earthquakes have been strict building inspectors.   And clearly many have subscribed to lower magnitude of earthquake, or enforcement have not been up to par.

This post avoided investments in

    1.   Tagaytay (near Taal volcano)

    2.    Baguio (Punongbayan said that a lot of geological changes will take place in Baguio

    3     Pampanga and Zambales (due to Pinatubo)

    4.    Bulacan (it is sinking)

Is this post being ultraconservative or is this wise risk management?

What do you think of these disasters vs investments?

George Bockl, whose book on real estate I read many times warns of unchangeable faults (those that exist and cannot be remedied by repairs of human efforts.  Who can prevent damages from earthquake or volcanic eruptions? or collapse of property near a riverbank or sea?

Giant Bamboo growing in the Philippines

Looking forward to the future of business

Yes there is giant bamboo variety and can grow heights up to 50 meters, but is thin.  This is all ready being grown in Mindanao

There is a lot of agri business opportunity in the Philippines - that can generate wealth and create jobs, and lift PHL further up from LDC to middle income economy.