The Cotacachi Inn Land of the Sun (formerly Hotel Meson de las Flores)… is for sale.
Enquiries please contact Lin Neal: concierge@ateamecuador.com
Sunrise at Inn Land of the Sun.
Inn Land of the Sun (formerly Meson de las Flores) is the center of Cotacachi.
The hotel was donated to Land of the Sun Foundation to help promote the economy of Cotacachi and Ecuador. The trustees of the foundation feel they have accomplished their purpose and now that Cotacachi has a far more thriving economy, a new owner with new ambitions can take this wonderful building to the next step.
All profits from the hotel have been used to expand the economy in Cotacachi or to provide scholarships to youth in Ecuador and the hotel is being offered for substantially less than the foundation has paid into this building.
Inn Land of the Sun courtyard.
The hotel has a great history and wonderful colonial architecture.
A restaurant has been operated in the hotel. Plus a warm, welcoming, caring staff who really do want to look after you.
Here is the Cotacachi Cathedral by night.
By day.
Inn Land of the Sun is Cotacachi’s oldest hotel located in a 180 year old colonial building with open air court yard just off Cotacachi’s main plaza and next to Cotacachi’s largest Church.
Here are some snapshots of the Inn Land of the Sun.
The entrance of the hotel in Cotacachi is 56 steps to a magnificent cathedral and park.
Here’s the park on a misty morn.
The village is quiet and peaceful and once inside Inn Land of the Sun you feel the flavor of its colonial past.
Here is a group enjoying the open air inner courtyard for meetings and dining “al fresco.”
The outer court leads to a dining and meeting room each for 50. Inn Land of the Sun has a full professional kitchen.
Here is one of the renovated rooms.
Rooms run between $39.99 and $79 a night plus 22% service and tax. This price includes a full served breakfast.
Here is…
a view from Inn Land of the Sun’s…
large suite that features…
king size canopy bed, plus…
sitting room and…
bath and spa/shower, plus…
all hardwood closets and trim and…
balcony dining with a view.
There is room for…
entertainment in the dining room.
Many seminars…
and events, such as…
the Miss Ecuador pageant,
export bazaars and seminars have been held at the hotel.
The Inn land of the Sun is for sale for $299,000.
Enquiries please contact Lin Neal at concierge@ateamecuador.com
Gary
Meet our Self Publishing Secret Weapon
Our secret weapon for self publishing profit is search engine success. The real secret to this success is our webmaster David Cross.
David Cross
David has been our webmaster since our website began in the 1990s. He is Merri’s and my business partner. We could not run our business as we do without him. One reason is that he is a search engine optimization expert.
You can learn the tactics we use in webinar that condenses 20 years of practical experience about search engine optimization, and writing for search engines.
For the last 27 years David has worked with companies large and small – IBM, Agora Publishing, AstraZeneca and many small business owners. He has worked in 22 countries, and lived in six of them.
David’s clients span the globe and represent companies and charities both large and small. From corporate giants to small, one-woman businesses and everything from finance, healthcare, publishing, technology, real estate, veterinarians, alternative health centers and everything in between.
David is an essential part of our web based business and Myles Norin, CEO of Agora, Inc. wrote: “I have found David’s knowledge and experience unmatched in the industry. Without David’s expertise and guidance for the past 7 years, we would not be nearly as successful as we are.”
As Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore, MD, he worked closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers and – over a 7-year period – helped to propel Agora’s online revenues from around $20 million to well over $300 million.
David’s webinar will help you gain the types of search engine benefits that large internet marketing companies use. In this practical course you will learn valuable skills to help you:
Attract search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to your website
Write interesting, compelling articles for real people, while using the search engine’s rules and algorithms to your advantage
Discover special tricks, tactics, and techniques you should use to attract search engines
Understand the “search engine secrets” you should avoid, and how these can get your site blocked by search engines
Learn about the role social media plays in search engine optimization, but why a social media presence is not your first step
Capture your visitors’ interest once they’ve arrived at your website, turning interest into action
As a writer, self-publisher or business owner, optimize your writing, and select what you could write for top placement in search engines. This is of increasing importance to your business.
Over the last 20 years David has worked with businesses, large and small. He has trained writers, publisher, editors and marketers on how to adapt their writing skills to attract search engines while retaining web pages, articles and stories that are still interesting for their customers and prospects.
David has condensed these tips into a training course on Writing Copy for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
This is an engaging, practical, online/telephone training course on SEO techniques and best practices for writers, authors, publishers and copywriters that will last approximately 90 minutes.
We held this SEO webinar live recently and a recording of it is available for download.
Join David and learn:
How to create engaging copy that ranks well in search engines
How – and why – to use keywords within your copy
How to link your articles together for better relevancy and SEO impact
How to convert interest into action for visitors driven through SEO
Working with and developing a Master Keyword List
Why getting someone to your website via search engines is the easy part of the equation; learn about conversions and how to capture your visitor’s interest, moving them along the path to becoming your customer
The value of social media in SEO
David provides slides, practical examples and an understanding of the SEO process that you can add and adapt to your own personal writing process. You may review at your leisure the valuable information that David shares.
Copy (writing) is still king. Learn how to make your copy relevant to the changing landscape of search engines.
Getting to Know People in Ecuador is important and the Cotacachi Ecuador Expat Weekend Get-Togethers
welcome those to Inn Land of the Sun.
Inn Land of the Sun entrance. This colonial inn dates back to the mid 1800s.
The hotel has started Friday and Saturday night pizza and spaghetti with beer and wine get-togethers in the fireplace room.
An Ecuador Living Club members just wrote: Merri: We just returned this past Thursday evening from our eight day trip to Ecuador. It was our first, and we had a fabulous time. We would like to thank you and Gary for your help in organizing our trip and for all the wonderful contacts through the Ecuador Living Club. Our cost to join the club was rewarded back to us time and again during the trip as the hotel recommendations were excellent. At the Land of the Sun Inn we met many fellow American travelers and learned infinitely more about Ecuador through their experiences too. Muchas Gracias for all your help. Charlie Peart, Summer Cipriano
An Englishman living in Cotacachi wrote:
Hi Merri & Gary,
We went Friday & Saturday for a meal at the Inn of the Sun and both nights were very well patronized , about 20/25 people at least on both nights, and the staff learned from any mistakes!). Edwardo made some delightful ice cream which was very well received by all.
I really believe that you are on to a good thing here as it is attracting new faces every weekend so I hope it continues- we will certainly support it when we can.
Kind regards, Don Mc Grae
Don Mc Grae is developing an assisted living complex in Cotacachi, Ecuador. See details below.
Lin Neal at the Cotacachi expat get together.
Super Thinking + Spanish teacher, Dr. Tom Pool.
Donda Pool and expats chatting.
The Inn’s staff hard at work.
If you are in or near Cotacachi come along and meet the community here.
Inn Land of the Sun courtyard.
There are many pleasures at Inn Land of the Sun in Cotacachi. The colonial architecture charms and welcomes you.
Other Inn Land of the Sun amenities include:
Free broadband internet.
Free calls to the USA, Canada and Europe.
Free served full breakfast.
Inexpensive massages.
Plus a warm, welcoming, caring staff who really do want to look after you.
Room rates at Inn Land of the Sun in Cotacachi begin at only $59 a night plus 22% service and tax.
Enjoy the beauty of Cotacachi. Here is the Cotacachi Church next door to the hotel.
By day.
Inn Land of the Sun is Cotacachi’s oldest hotel located in a 180 year old colonial building with open air court yard just off Cotacachi’s main plaza and next to Cotacachi’s largest Church. Here is the hotel.
Here I am working poolside in the winter, at our Florida farm.
Here I am with our hound Ma, working during the summer at our North Carolina farm.
Learn how to earn everywhere, while living anywhere you choose. I have been able to earn by writing in Hong Kong, England, the Isle of Man, Dominican Republic and Ecuador to name a few of the place I have lived. Everywhere I have been… too numerous to share here, I have been able to work.
All I need is my laptop.
That’s all you need too… a laptop to be free!
Before computers, a pencil and pad did the job.
Freedom is just one benefit you can gain from writing.
Another benefit is income. Writing has brought me both our farms, free and clear… plus a lot more.
Another good example of earning potential is my friend Hugh Howey. He was working for $10 an hour in a book store when he self published his novel Wool, typing in a storage room during his lunch breaks.
Soon he was earning over $100,000 a month on Amazon.com. This helped secure a six-figure book deal from Simon & Schuster, and an option for film by Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner and Alien.
That’s what he’s doing now.
Sometimes Hugh and I get together at my farm and play chess (he beats me badly).
Writers like High are great inspirations.
A couple of years ago Hugh left Florida, and moved to South Africa. He had a sailing catamaran built for him and now can sail the world while he continues to write.
Hugh explained it like this: And that’s the miracle of working as a writer: I can do it from anywhere and everywhere. The past few years, I’ve done a lot of writing from airplanes and airports while on business trips abroad. SAND was entirely written overseas while traveling through seven different countries; I think it’s a better story because of those inspirations. In upcoming years, I may be writing near your home port.
Hugh’s a super star writer and his success could not happen to a more deserving and talented person. He pours enormous energy into being worthy of his readership. But you do not have to be a million dollar a year earner or a traveler to benefit from writing.
The good news is… you do not need a huge success to have a rich and fulfilled lifestyle. Self Publishing can bring you a life that most people only dream of, as a journeyman writer, instead of a super star.
May I hastily add that the path to stardom begins as a journeyman… so the journeyman’s path brings success without stardom… but can also lead to stardom.
What most success stories like Hugh’s rarely explain is the many hours of writing that was devoted before their self published book sales soared. Hugh, like most writers were journeymen first. Stardom came later.
Here are sevens secrets that can help you become a journeyman writer.
The secrets are a writer’s armory of tools that allows almost anyone to create successful publications for income, freedom and fulfillment.
Take Merri’s and my publishing business as an example.
Merri and I are not writing stars. We are journeymen who have for more than 40 years, year in and year out, earned solid income writing and self publishing dozens of publications about multiple subjects.
Some years that income has been more than solid… over a million dollars. Yet in terms of stardom, we are hardly known.
In a moment you’ll see why that’s fine for us and probably will be for you too.
First some history.
Merri became involved in self publishing over 40 years ago… first helping a veterinarian publish a book on a very specific market… animal acupuncture. Then she showed a needle point artist how to sell more books to an even more specific audience… “needle point enthusiasts” about her needle point work to an audience larger than the population of the city she lived in. This led Merri to eventually become Executive Editor of an award winning magazine in Florida.
My story allowed Merri and me to work and live from Hong Kong to London to Europe to Eastern Europe, then the Caribbean and then Ecuador… making millions in the process of following our adventures… having fun… while helping a large readership adapt to a rapidly changing world.
That’s what self publishing can bring, profit, adventure and fulfillment, a great feeling of worth and wonder.
Self Publishing has created exactly the lifestyle we desire allowing us to span the world and work with meaning and purpose.
Self Publishing has become a new business art form.
The seven secrets can help you start your own self publishing business now.
Everything in publishing is new and exciting and changing. Publishing is being recreated by the wonderful power of destructive technology.
Everything is new… except the seven secrets.
Change in the publishing industry is disturbing many. We love this evolution due to these seven secrets we call the 7Ps. The 7 Ps are so fundamental to writing and publishing that new technology enhances rather than reduces their power.
The First P is Passion.
Whatever your passion, you can immerse yourself in it AND create income with self publishing. This can be your direct ticket to the kind of fulfillment you’ve always wanted.
Whether you want to travel the world or live as a recluse, work 12 hours a day or not work much at all, you can set your schedule to succeed, if you’re willing to learn these seven secrets.
You can start part-time with any dream, passion, and budget. Once you’ve created a product, you’ll enjoy the “multiple effect” of producing profits over and over again.
So the question is… What do you love to do?
What’s Your Passion: An example is that thirty years ago, a client of Merri’s had a passion to help people who were in pain? He published a series of pamphlets explaining various chiropractic disorders in very simple terms. For example: “What Is Whiplash?”
The pamphlets contained solid information, but were simple 5″ x 7″ brochures with drawings and explanations. He sold them with a rack to chiropractors, who put them in their offices for patients to read. These little self-published items sold year in and year out for decades.
There are thousands of ideas of this sort that can lead to big business. It’s just a matter of defining and then acting on your passion.
Although I can work when I please and go where I wish, for me the most important reason for being a publisher is the satisfaction it brings.
I love the projects I take on, so work doesn’t feel like, well… work.
What do you love? If you love golf, then you can write and sell publications about golf. Love travel, fishing, dogs, dolls, or art? Write and sell publications in these fields.
Are you concerned about crime, war, poverty or environmental issues? You can publish information products that help reduce these concerns.
Would you like to help the world be a more spiritual place? Publish a newsletter, write a book (or hire someone to write it for you), record a tape… publish something that enlightens people.
Whatever your passion, you can immerse yourself in it and earn income by publishing for ereaders, print on demand, CDs, lists, bound books, or any format you choose.
Be immersed in your passion and get paid well for it.
This is why stardom is not the main goal for most writers and self publishers. Extra income, more freedom and fulfillment are usually more than enough enough.
The seven Ps are:
#1: Passion
#2: Problem
#3: Person
#4: Profitably Priced Product
#5: Prospecting Pathway
#6: Promise
#7: Presentation
The first time I exposed others to the secrets in Self Publishing was in a weekend “Writer’s Camp” seminar. We offered the camp for $1,500. 80 delegates enrolled. People from all walks of life attended—chiropractors, businessmen, investors, doctors, realtors, inventors, airline pilots, engineers, and housewives.
Merri and I were so overwhelmed by the response, we decided to make it available to a larger audience. We created a written course based on our current self publishing activity called “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher.” Then we recorded the weekend “Writer’s Camp” seminar.
Thousands have used the course as it has evolved over the decades.
You can receive both the written course and the recorded weekend seminar, in an MP3 file, in a special “Live Well and Free Anywhere” program I am making available to you. The normal fee is $299 for the written course and $299 for the recorded workshop. I’ll send you both the course and the recorded workshop and my course “International Business Made EZ (also $299) all for $299. You save $598.
We are so confident that you’ll gain from this offer that if you are not fully satisfied, simply email us within 60 days for a full refund .
These courses are not theoretical. They describe, step-by-step, how Merri and I built a million-dollar international business and how we are running this self publishing business right now. We use the 7Ps today just as we did four decades ago to create a strong annual income.
This correspondence course is for those who would like their own international self publishing micro business for fun and profit. If you want fun, freedom, extra income and fulfillment with your own full or part time writing or want to build your existing business, by writing to sell you can profit from this course. The course can help who want their own business or who want to have a business together or a family business. This is the perfect course for those who can no longer find employment, who are looking for ways to earn abroad and who wish to retire and supplement their income.
Whether you are retired, an investor, chiropractor, doctor, dentist, professional or already own your own business, this offers another way to make money, to turn your passion into profit. We guarantee that we have shared all we know to help you start and run your own international business. Enjoy and live a life of following your Passion to Profit… through writing.
Here is a special offer.
We provide two emailed courses “Self Fulfilled – How to Write to Sell and be a Self Publisher” and “International Business Made EZ”.
We include the “Self Fulfilled Writing and Self Publishing Course” because there are two reasons to write, when you have something to say or when you have something to sell. In this day and age many of us want to do both, make a statement that makes the world a better place and earn something extra in the process.
Whatever your passion, however you do business, chances are you’ll be writing either to create a product or to sell a product.
You save more than $598 because you also receive a recorded webinar conducted by our webmaster David Cross (at no extra cost).
David Cross
David has been our webmaster since our website began in the 1990s. He is Merri’s and my business partner. We could not run our business as we do without him.
Learn the tactics we use in our web business that condenses 27 years of practical experience about search engine optimization, and writing for search engines.
For the last 27 years David has worked with companies large and small – IBM, Agora Publishing, AstraZeneca and many small business owners. He has worked in 22 countries, and lived in six of them.
David’s clients span the globe and represent companies and charities both large and small. From corporate giants to small, one-woman businesses and everything from finance, healthcare, publishing, technology, real estate, veterinarians, alternative health centers and everything in between.
David is an essential part of our web based business.
Myles Norin, CEO of Agora, Inc. wrote: “I have found David’s knowledge and experience unmatched in the industry. Without David’s expertise and guidance for the past 7 years, we would not be nearly as successful as we are.”
As Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Inc. in Baltimore, MD, he worked closely with Agora’s publishers and marketers and – over a 7-year period – helped to propel Agora’s online revenues from around $20 million to well over $300 million.
David’s webinar will help you gain benefits in your micro business that large internet marketing companies use. In this practical recorded workshop you will learn valuable skills to help your micro business.
There has never been a time when the opportunity for small businesses abroad has been so outstanding. Expand your borders now! Increase your economic security freedom, independence and success.
If you are not fully satisfied that this offers you enormous value simply email us for a full refund within 60 days. You can keep all three courses as our thanks for giving our courses a try.
You also receive a report “How to use Relaxed Concentration to Brainstorm Business Ideas” and a recorded workshop “How to Become and Remain Rich With Relaxed Concentration” at no additional cost.
Plus you get more in the program.
You receive regular writing and self publishing updates for a year. Businesses usually need to evolve. Merri and I continue to publish and have our independent businesses. Some basics have remained for decades, but new strategies occur all the time throughout the year. We’ll be sending along updates that share our most recent experiences as we learn and continue to grow our international micro business from Smalltown USA.
My special offer to you in this “Live Well and Free Anywhere Program”, is that you receive:
“International Business Made EZ” course
“Self Fulfilled – How to Write to Sell” course
Video Workshop by our webmaster David Cross,
The entire weekend “Writer’s Camp” in MP3,
MP3 Workshop “How to Gain Added Success With Relaxed Concentration”
Any updates to any of the courses, workshops, reports or recordings for a year.
We are so confident that you’ll gain from this offer that if you are not fully satisfied, simply email us within the first three months for a full refund .
Here is an Ecuador investing and business ideas for Ecuador or anywhere you live.
In a moment, I am going to show you how to own this 16 room hotel in Otavalo for almost nothing… maybe even free.
First let’s look at a business idea for this hotel… rootlessness… a growing global problem.
Problems create opportunity so there is business opportunity in rootlessness.
Technology has given mankind the ability to work, live and invest globally… a wonderful benefit. Yet this mobility has created a problem as well.
One of my messages many years ago (2002) outlined that there would be a growing market for friendship in this modern era.
That message said:The market for friendship has to grow because technology has made society so mobile. I for example have lost nearly every single really good friend from school. I haven’t seen most of the friends I grew up with for forty five years. I imagine they still live in Portland, Oregon, but maybe not. They might all have become travelers like myself. Out of a six pack of school buddies, Steve is the only one with whom I keep in touch.
When I moved to North Carolina, I visited the local car mechanic named Jay Dee to have some work done on my 1986 Suzuki Samari Jeep. This is the perfect farm car but often needs work. Jay Dee’s garage is a barn by his house and local people sort of collect around that barn to shoot the breeze, spit a little tobacco and talk over old times. “Remember old Johnny Blevins and that time he threw you in the creek,” one of them might say. “Well darn that must a been fifty years ago.”
My Samari… 23 years old and only 62,000 original miles.
I love being with these wonderful mountain people and their easy going, friendly ways. They have such deep roots and ties and are comfortable and at ease with their friends. They know who they are, where they are and who their friends are because they have been with them their entire lives. These people aren’t hanging around Jay Dee just to get their cars fixed. They are enjoying a ritual of friendship that has united them since they were kids.
I love this! My friendships are scattered and far flung all over the world. I sometimes don’t get to see my friends for years!
A huge segment (much of the wealthiest) of the population no longer lives where they were brought up. They have lost touch with their roots. The more technology removes us from our origins, the more the market for togetherness and friendship grows.
Friendship is an extension of togetherness and can develop around many themes. For the mountain folk of North Carolina or anyone who remains rooted in their birthplace the theme is mostly “down home”.
These friendships are tight and if you have ever heard the phrase “You ain’t from around here are ya, boy,” you have experienced the reverse side of this type of friendship. The implication is that with these long term, locally based friendships, the only way to be a friend is to have been there for years.
Some of the years I lived in Gloucestershire, England were spent in a tiny village named Chalford. I lived over a local pub there, “The Mechanics Arms.” Though I was a newcomer to the area I was accepted as an old timer because of family ties. One man in his sixties, who visited the pub every night however wasn’t quite part of the crowd.
Many of the locals talked about him as the new man in town. I was surprised later to learn he had lived in Chalford for nearly thirty years! The locals would always view him as less trustworthy because he had not been born and raised there. Childhood experiences were the basis of their deepest friendships.
Many of us will never have this type of long term familiarity friendship.We have moved around too much. This creates markets for many types of new friendships.
Networking is a form of business friendship. The theme of the friendship is scratch my back and perhaps I can scratch yours or we will both be better off scratching each others’ backs. Such friendships can be local, state or country wide or as mine span the globe. They can be very informal or very formal.
The market for formal friendships has already exploded. Incredible growth of support groups such as AA are a sign of the momentum in the friendship market. Such groups offer a format for formal friendships and range from disease support groups to abused support groups. Each offers an organized way to have friends. The growth of these groups is not because there are more problems than thirty years ago. The growth is because of the increasing market for friendships.
We can see this trend spreading everywhere. For example one telephone company has recognized this growing trend and has successfully built its business around the idea of calling “family and friends.
This thought (that a market for friendships would grow) was correct. We see this on the internet with one of the biggest trends being social networking sites.
A recent New York Times article, “Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To” by Patricia Leigh Brown reveals a sliver of this problem.
Here is an excerpt from this article: They gather five days a week at a mall called the Hub, sitting on concrete planters and sipping thermoses of chai. These elderly immigrants from India are members of an all-male group called The 100 Years Living Club. They talk about crime in nearby Oakland, the cheapest flights to Delhi and how to deal with recalcitrant daughters-in-law.
Together, they fend off the well of loneliness and isolation that so often accompany the move to this country late in life from distant places, some culturally light years away.
“If I don’t come here, I have sealed lips, nobody to talk to,” said Devendra Singh, a 79-year-old widower. Meeting beside the parking lot, the men were oblivious to their fellow mall rats, backpack-carrying teenagers swigging energy drinks.
In this country of twittering youth, Mr. Singh and his friends form a gathering force: the elderly, who now make up America’s fastest-growing immigrant group. Since 1990, the number of foreign-born people over 65 has grown from 2.7 million to 4.3 million — or about 11 percent of the country’s recently arrived immigrants. Their ranks are expected to swell to 16 million by 2050. In California, one in nearly three seniors is now foreign born, according to a 2007 census survey.
Now let’s look at this 16 room hotel in Otavalo that you can have for almost nothing… maybe even free and how it could offer a business that solves this problem.
First, let me detail the hotel and why a fabulous bargain has come up… and how this hotel can fit into the friendship market.
This is an really good Ecuador income opportunity, a…
hotel for sale in Otavalo.
The owners have had this on the market for a number of years at one million dollars. We thought this price was too high and never wrote about it.
Earlier this year they dropped the price to $750,000 and offered us $150,000 commission if we sold it. I wrote then: The owners offered us a $150,000 commission to sell the hotel. We are not brokers and do not take commission so our reply was “cut the price for our readers”! This would place the price at $600,000… an interesting value.
$600,000 may have been interesting but the owner now just emailed us and dropped the price to $495,000. This places the price beyond an interesting value into the bargain range.
Plus the owners again offered us a commission. We do not take commissions so whatever (how much commission was not clear) amount they would pay could be deducted from this price.
This makes the hotel a real bargain.
At $750,000 the commission of $150,000 was 20%. We don’t know of course about the commission, and I didn’t want to wait to verify this because this hotel is valuable, beautiful and it could work out at about $35 a foot on the building and leaves you the land (which right next to Otavalo market is worth a lot).
Yet there is more. I believe you can get the land and the 16 room hotel for almost nothing.
I’ll explain how below.
First: the hotel details. The hotel is right next to Otavalo Market, one of the largest tourist attractions in Ecuador.
The property has these characteristics: Appx. 30,000 sq. feet of land and 12,000 sq. feet of building in 3 apartments and 16 hotel rooms.
Property Details: The property consists of approximately 30,000 square feet of land, with trees, gardens and many types of exotic birds. The gardens…
are large… well groomed and…
have a wonderful patio.
Ma too likes it there.
There is approximately 12,000 square feet of solid brick and cement construction.
On the property, there is plenty of room for expansion and development, especially in a town where there is absolutely no land left to develop. The building is built in the old colonial style with finely crafted hardwood arched windows and doors, rustic floor tile and traditional clay-tiled roof. The building is constructed according to U.S. anti-seismic standards.
The owner claims this is one of the best built constructions in Otavalo—and one of the prettiest in the city!
The building boasts excellent water pressure on all four floors. (Please don’t pooh pooh this quality!) The building has a powerful, propane gas-fueled boiler system capable of producing up to 700 gallons of hot water a day. With access to the land/building from two streets, the property has frontage on 3 streets, which have been newly paved by the City of Otavalo.
Characteristics: 16 rooms, large social area (restaurant), large working kitchen, two medium-sized apartments, one large penthouse apartment, small building in back (approximately 250 square meters) that serves as a laundry room and storage facility, which also has a full bathroom and a working fireplace. This could easily be converted into a small rental property. Adjacent, yet private, to the main property, and which consists of 350 square meters of our total property, is a working area and parking garage (which can accommodate approximately 6 cars), with clothes lines, and general storage area.
First floor: Consists of large working kitchen, with back door exit to outdoor enclosed pantry/food storage room, laundry area and herb garden. There is a large dining room (approximately 2,500 square feet) with excellent working fireplace, and space to comfortably entertain 60 or so people.
Reception.
Restaurant is beautiful also.
The dining room leads outside onto the tiled patio and garden where there are tables and chairs for serving and relaxing, and this area may be used to accommodate another 30 or so people. Also on the first floor there are 8 rooms which have served as hotel rooms, each 55 X 45 feet in size with large bathrooms.
All rooms face out into the garden and the property is in front of Mount Imbabura. Hundreds of hummingbirds and exotic birds roam the grounds.
Patio seen from one of the three apartments.
Hotel room…
shots.
Second floor: There are two spacious apartments, each about 1,100 square feet in size, with glass windows looking down onto the garden.
Apartment #1 view…
Apartment#1 bedroom.
Apartment #1 Living room
and kitchen.
Each apartment has a large bathroom and a kitchenette with small balconies in the back. Also on the second floor there are 8 more rooms, equal to the rooms on the first floor, that open onto a balcony over-looking the garden.
Apartment #2 living room
Bedroom.
bathroom.
Third floor: There is a very large “penthouse” apartment, approximately 2,250 square feet with large glass windows and a large balcony overlooking the garden. This apartment has one bathroom with a small adjacent room that may be converted into a sauna, large spacious kitchen and living room, two large bedrooms, and a large working fireplace.
Penthouse…
views.
Penthouse.
Penthouse fireplace.
Kitchen.
Penthouse bedroom.
Extra room.
Penthouse bedroom #2.
The Roof: The penthouse apartment has stairs that lead to the roof, where there are two 5,000 gallon reserve tanks for storing water (if needed), as well as more storage space. As stated before, there is excellent water pressure on all 4 floors. Also includes a solar hot water system which connects into the boiler system.
Two 5,000 gallon water storage tanks…
plus solar water heater.
This is an excellent facility with wonderful grounds in a high priced area..
Let’s look at the owner’s explanation of why they have lowered the price… then we’ll see how to get this hotel for almost nothing.
Hello Merri and Gary, This is Margaret from Ali Shungu in Otavalo. I have been living up here on the mountain for about 6 months full time, going back and forth to the Hotel. I feel better up here in my little house with my projects. I have been recovering from an illness and have been in the hospital in Quito. They said that if this diverticulitis does not clear up, and it has been bad for about 6 months with 3 months of vomiting, fever, etc.,–that I will need an operation to remove it. I’m drinking all kinds of herbs and aloe vera cactus and only boiled simple foods, and hoping to heal without an operation. Did 2 rounds of antibiotics, might have to do more…….I will say though, that the hospital bill was not that bad in Voz Andes for all the tests that I had and treatments, etc. I will now take care of myself more, and do more praying! I might need intravenous antibiotics but I do not want to go back to the hospital in Quito.
There you have it… a owner whose health no longer allows them to run the hotel nor wait out a high priced buyer.
Here is how to get this 16 room hotel for almost nothing.I believe that the three apartments, if separated from the hotel and sold on their own, are worth near the price of the hotel. I do not know the Otavalo real estate market so well…but I have seen the apartments and penthouse and they are exquisite.
If they are and if you can buy this for hotel in the $400,000 range… this means the 16 room hotel, the grounds and the restaurant are almost free.
This will require some negotiating, some work and legal work (Ecuador lawyers are not very expensive)… but could provide one heck of a deal.
We have put our Ecuador Living subscribers in touch with the sellers. To gain this contact information you can subscribe to Ecuador Living here.
If the hotel is not under offer, we’ll show it on our upcoming October Andean Real Estate tour. See tour details here.
Merri and I are not involved financially in any way with this offer. We have not looked at the hotel’s financial accounts, legal situation, titles, nor had an engineering inspection, so be sure to take all normal precautions if you are interested. Especially look at the labor obligations you’ll absorb.
Our recommendation for those who are interested in Ecuador is to come visit first… look around… rent and stay awhile… before you buy. One reason for this recommendation is that when you are here awhile you’ll see bargains… like this and I believe for the reasons stated that Hotel Ali Shungu is now a bargain.
Now let’s see how this creates opportunity from the problem of rootlessness.
Americans and Canadians are flocking to Ecuador. I know. Our Ecuador Living business is going wild. The subscription pace has almost doubled recently and the request for rentals in this area has skyrocketed past our ability to keep up!
The demand is especially strong at the lower income level… those who are retiring and can no longer have a decent life in Canada or the US… especially in places where there is winter sun.
There people are isolated… often not speaking Spanish and with little to do. So Turn this hotel into a residence for gringos. Provide free internet… US papers…. weekly Spanish lessons… a support program… group tours, travel assistance etc.
There is one more value. Yesterday’s message How to Make Money in this Multi Currency Eraexplained how, due to the falling US dollar, Ecuador real estate has become a 10% better value since this last February.
Gary
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