Chabil Mar Villas was featured in BELIZEmagazine.com - The Internet Magazine of Belize, the number one Belizean content provider in their July 2005 edition. Below you find an excerpt, for the full article please click here.

Any informed person you talk with about investing in Belize will tell you there have been real estate developments in the country over the years that were good and then there were others that were, well to be polite, not so good.

Those that have followed the real estate trends down in the western Caribbean country synonymous with jungle paradise and diving off the second largest barrier reef on the planet will admit that in the last decade real estate purchases in Belize have really taken off. Experienced travellers to Belize will also all agree that the shoreline of beach along the Placencia Peninsula is the best that Belize has to offer.

Luxury complimented with the required amenities that truly define a great property, less a handful of the notable exceptions of properties scattered around Belize, has simply not arrived to the small country.

Upon entering the premises of Chabil Mar Villas you will be completely taken back by the sheer attention to detail, to the obvious insight into the design envisioning where the market would be if and when an investor decided to roll over their investment down the road. Although at first there were some local Placencia residents that were apprehensive based primarily upon the beautiful pier that reaches out into the Caribbean, but these were unfounded acquisitions fuelled for the most part by Internet chatters. Permits had been granted directly by the Belize Government and there had been reportedly a pier in the same location that was destroyed years back by a hurricane. In time local villagers saw the beauty of the project, and seemingly everyone has come around with their support as the complex has risen to take the peninsula into the future. One visit with Ms. Bulman and the reasons are clear.

A former Canadian paralegal from Pinantan Lake, B. C., Dianne Bulman lost her dear husband in an ultralight plane accident in 2002. But as they say one must find hope in tragedy, and Ms. Bulman found the strength to do just that. What amazed me during my research, I found Ms. Bulman to be completely open. This is very unlike the portrayals offered by two of the Placencia residents that I contacted for this article that continue to try and keep the small village, well small minded. Overcoming the realities of life brought Dianne, a sculpture by nature, and her dreams, to Belize. And it is exactly those dreams and aspirations that have dictated the design of Chabil Mar Villas to the level.

As Ms. Bulman explains, "I always felt that those who would purchase one of the villas would be special people that had their own reason for wanting to buy in Belize. And you know what, that is what is happening...the project is completely my dream and my design and my artwork. I still love Belize as much or even more than when I came, and I will always have my home here on this most beautiful stretch of beach. My life has been a difficult journey to now but I feel very peaceful here in Belize. I have met wonderful people and want the whole world to know how amazing the Belizeans are. They are very different than any other Caribbean people and I should know, for I have travelled to all the islands and therefore, I know the difference."