I fully agree with Arwin reg. below post and believe Goans should not sell
their ancestral property. Even if they are not using it atleast they should
keep it if not for anything else atleast in memory of their ancestors.
However I would like to make some comments as to the reasons behind why so
many Goans are sadly selling their ancestral properties:
1. Many of the Goans are not based in Goa. Due to economic reasons many Goans
work in Bombay, Gulf or other locations and are forced to keep their houses
closed. They cant give to any caretaker due to fear of losing their homes.
2. Then being ancestral property there are often family disputes particularly
after marriage where they feel rather than having more problems regarding it,
they feel selling is the easy option as they get equal money and that too often
huge amount.
3. Since maintaining the huge ancestral property may be difficult they find
the easy option is to get this amount and then buy a holiday home so that as
and when say maybe once a year they come down on holiday they have a place to
spend in.
4. The prices of property has sky rocketed so much that they find it very
tempting to sell and take this huge amount of their share and look at short
time gains and book their profits little realizing that in future the prices
will be much more.
5. Then again many Goans have settled for good abroad maybe in USA, Europe,
New Zealand, Australia etc. and only go on holiday to Goa. In this case they
would prefer to have an apartment which is easy to maintain and look after and
their purpose of having a holiday is served.
6. As a Goan friend of mine said, having ancestral property sadly today is a
curse - meaning it is a cause of so much ill feeling, enemity and fights among
families.
I repeat ideally ancestral property should never been sold but the above are
the harsh realities today.
Camilo Fernandes
From: Arwin Mesquita <arwinmesqu...@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Goanet] Foolish Goans Selling Land
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I am extremely disappointed to be aware that there are so many Goans
foolishly selling their ancestral land so as to purchase temporary
luxuries, BMW's, Audi's etc no wonder sales of these cars are rising in
Goa. Some are selling land to move into Apartments. What will they do with
this cars some years? Are Apartments better in the long run than your own
estate? These Goans could have their prime land and have the luxuries they
desire if they applied a little common sense, did some hard-work; but it
appears that all they want is easy cash by selling land to outsiders;
Land/Houses that their forefathers worked very hard to attain. The same
thing was done by the East Indians in Mumbai and now many Lazy Goans are
doing the same. Instant large sums Money seems to be the immediate Goal and
I suppose when that runs out, who/what will they sell next!!!
Then you have the Parasitic Builders whose main job today is to negotiate
with joint stake holders of Land, so that they can strike a deal, buy the
property and bring up the monstrocities so as to sell to majority from
outside the state. Builders need to understand that whatever they do has an
impact on the environment/society and they can't destruct at Will!! And
these Land stake holders who agree are blinded by the greedy builders via
one thing; again Instant Cash!! Why do you think many Outsiders are paying
large sums of cash (Largely Black Money) to the Goans? Goans will reap
what they sow if this pathetic attitude is not changed!!
Arwin Mesquita, UAE
