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Harper City and Cape Palmas seen from above

About us

We help people come back to Harper City.

Finding a family house, renting somewhere to stay, building from the ground up, or making something of land that has sat untouched for years.

Most of the people we speak to are not in Liberia.

They are in Providence, Manchester, Toronto, Hamburg. They have a house in Harper their grandmother lived in, or land from a father, or a plan to build something one day. What they do not have is somebody on the ground.

That is the whole job. We are in Harper. We can walk to the plot, photograph the boundary wall, sit with the county office, meet the contractor, and tell you honestly what a thing costs before you send money for it.

Distance is the problem we solve. Everything else — the rentals, the house models, the land, the farming advice — comes out of that.

Harper, Maryland County

On Cape Palmas, at the south-eastern corner of Liberia, where the coast turns. A town of old mission houses, a lighthouse, and a great deal of land that has been waiting a long time for somebody to come back to it.

What we do

  • Find the house you grew up in

    Many people know the street and the tree in the yard, but not an address. We start from the satellite map and work backwards.

  • Somewhere to stay

    Places to rent in Harper, whether you are visiting for a month or living here while your own house goes up.

  • Building

    Three house models you can build as they are, or a design drawn around your land and how you want to live.

  • Land and farming

    Buying land, clearing it, measuring it, and working out what grows well on your particular plot.

How it works

  1. Tell us where you are starting

    A few questions, one at a time. Your childhood home, or land you own or want.

  2. We learn what you actually need

    By the end you have shown us the place and the plan, so nobody starts the call from nothing.

  3. We speak

    You pick a day and a time, we call you, and we go from there.

Where would you like to start?