Family & People
When it is family, the risk changes. These guides are about the people you trust with your money back home: the power of attorney you sign so someone can act for you, the relative or operator who runs things day to day, and the agreement that keeps a family project from becoming a family dispute. Most diaspora losses are not forged titles. They happen after the money leaves, between people who trusted each other.Not sure where your exposure is? You can find your riskiest gap in 3 minutes, free.Start with When It Is Family: Putting Money Into a Project You Do Not Control.
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Can One Sibling Sell Family Land Without the Others?
A cousin mentions it on the family WhatsApp, almost in passing. Your brother has found a buyer for the plot your father left. Or it is already done: a deposit taken, a document signed, strangers clearing the land. You are thousands of miles away, your name is on nothing, and the only question in your…
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How to Choose the Person Who Runs It: Vetting an Operator Back Home
You are not investing in a business. You are investing in a person. That sentence is the whole of this article, and almost everyone gets it backwards. They spend three months researching whether a cold room, a poultry farm or a laundry is a good idea, and about forty minutes deciding who will run it…
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Power of Attorney Back Home: Do You Know What You’re Signing Away?
Someone you love is about to sign for you, and you are about to hand them the power to do it. That moment decides most diaspora land losses. A power of attorney to buy land in Ghana, Nigeria or Kenya is a tool and a trap in the same document: narrow it and it protects…