Swiss family was too clever for their own good."
Meaning...? The Swiss, thought: Those Brazilians are wayo people. In Germans we trust. The Germans sold them a lemon. Perhaps they are selling another one just now.
One single step to buy property:
You ask for the registration nr. of the deed
Go to registrar of property.
Ask to pull out the last 20 years of the case of that property.
Good? Buy.
No good? (real estate tax not paid, heirs fightinting about property’s splitting, given as collateral, everything is there.
Usually you ask the vendor to do this for you and bring back the case of that property to you.
Urban property in Curitiba (my home town):
You get fiscal resgistration nr. (vendor will give you)
Open the municipality web site,
Key in nr. everything is there.
How many trees, how many of those trees you should leave standing, (diameter of 1ft or more must not be cut. Any area with native trees must be left with 30% of the trees standing. Araucaria trees on your property? 
You get tax rebate.
Cut an Araucaria tree? Oh, you are in trouble. They come after you real good. We have 52m2 of green area for every of the 1.6million inhabitants.
Man! you are so much controlledin that place that's looking like those “free” places you have in NZ and the U.S.
A bonus, you get tax rebate since we want to keep them standing.
Need to contact cellular company before constructing zone restrictions if any.
Piece of cake. Can’t make a mistake.
Why all this easiness and all those data at the finger tips of Elmat? You may be asking.
Simple: The municipality gets two taxes: Service taxes, (hair cuts, oil change car wash) and REAL ESTATE TAXES.
Other city revenue is returned from Federal and State government, which they can’t control.
Thus the municipality is hell-bent in getting all those taxes they can control and they keep a close eye on the “cows they milk”. That means, land.
Most modern GIS you can get. You build without license? They look to the GIS, a souped-up Google earth, compare to last year and come to visit you to fine and for the taxes. Added a floor? Same thing! That souped-up Google Earth sees tri-dimensional and they see you and caught you. |
