Frequent Questions

After you bought your first trees, they will be visible in your account as a tokens, one tree is one token, we do this to make things more simple in case you want to sell your trees to other Treeconomy investor in an other part of the world. You will be provided with a geolocation of where your tree is being planned to be planted, then we start the planting process and we will be keeping you updated with the newsletter. You may also log in in treeconomy’s platform to check the financial status, pictures, co2 absorption of your trees and more.
After trees are planted, a Colombian authority (ICA) will do an audit to check the number of trees planted, geolocation, species and investors; After a couple of weeks the will show in their website certification of this plantation
Of course, your trees will be readily available for you to visit at any time, keep in mind they are yours.
Yes you do, when you invest in treeconomy you are required to sign a sales agreement with our organization. After planting your trees, we will be audited by a Colombian Government agency called ICA who will register the plantation in the national database and issue a certificate a couple weeks later. Both the sales contract and the plantation certificate will be mailed to you and also readily available on your account.
Treeconomy mix tree owners in some lots to reduce reforestation cost and increment your revenue, this also helps in distributing risk between everybody
Your trees will be planted in a selected land in Colombia, a country famous for its biodiversity and ultra favorable soil conditions. After your payment is processed, you will receive the GPS coordinates where your trees will be planted. The location will be readily available for you on your account.
Your trees will be planted in a selected land in Colombia, a country famous for its biodiversity and ultra favorable soil conditions. After your payment is processed, you will receive the GPS coordinates where your trees will be planted. The location will be readily available for you on your account.
Good news, for every tree you invest in, we plant two. The reason for this relies on how reforestation projects work in practice. In the early stage of plantations trees are planted very close to each other so they protect themselves from the adversities of the environment. During the third year of the plantation, we remove a share of the trees to make sure they are all receiving enough nutrients from the soil. We repeat this process again in year seven leaving only 50% of the trees originally planted.
Good news, for every tree you buy, we plant two!, this is because after we plant the first trees, 10% of them die, so we replace them, after the third year, we go to the plantation and cut the ones (25%) that are not growing well so they don’t wasted resources for the other trees, and by the seventh year, we do it again, the other (15%) assuring 495 trees per hectare at the maturity time. what is included in the price? Taxes? All expenses are included in the price, rent of land for 10-11 years, maintenance, web services, notary taxes, and transaction taxes. At the moment we sale the wood, we will transfer the money to you and depending in your country you will have to pay different income taxes.
Depending in the lot you invest, remember that you can buy trees from other Treeconomy investors, or we can have some lots already planted and ready for you to just buy, but in every case depends in the lot and time you buy, you can check it in the lot description after you click in “plant trees”
After your trees are cut down, our sawmill partner Central de Maderas G&S SAS and other sawmills in cases of needs will pay for the timber at market prices, you will receive 100% of the revenue and we will start the process again.
Treeconomy reforestation model not only thinks in the reforestation process but also facilitate logistics to make things easier to those sawmills thinking in getting a better sale price.
We are planting Gmelina that takes just 10 years to reach to maturity, it is one of the fastest in the market, but don’t forget that one of the speed reasons is Colombia’s incredible environmental conditions.
One hectare of Pine trees absorbs around 10 tons of CO2 per year, the equivalent of 8 cars of a normal crowded city, but it all depends in some conditions like temperature, quality of water, soil quality, exposure to light and climate. That is why Colombia is on of the best countries in the world for reforestation.
Treeconomy focused in maximize the stakeholders returns including you, for that reason our team is responsible to decide the correct time to cut down trees.
Yes, you can transfer your tree to anybody you want, you can even go to gift a tree and can select who you want to give it to and we well take care of the rest.
You will receive money when we sale your trees for timber, that means when trees get to maturity and the fulfilled their ecological purpose. You will be notified days before of this process and 100% of the revenue will be transfer to you, this is why Treeconomy is an amazing option.
Trees sales cost can be calculated by the timber volume, we will be sending you monthly updates of its grow so you can follow It in Treeconomy’s platform, also, in case you need to sell your trees to other T.I. they can visit the plantation to confirm our information.
We will sell the timber a market prices, for that reason, before signing a sales agreement, we will receive minimum tree offers and we’ll choose that one that is an average or above, remember that no always the most expensive is the best.
Every planted lot is registered between the Treeconomy investors, Treeconomy only owns the land but it will have a rental contract with the owners of the trees in that lot, so in case that Treeconomy goes in bankruptcy and somebody else buys the land, they will also have to wait until timber is cut down. And Central de Maderas G&S SAS, a 35 years old medium sizes company will be in charge of the operation and pay revenue to Treeconomy investors.
We already thought plan A, B and C to secure your investment!
The best way to grow your money is to save and invest some of it monthly, by doing so, you will have some interesting amount in some years that you wouldn’t be able to have in other ways, remember that each payment generates an extra revenue so the difference is that classic investment you just do onetime payment and subscription investment, you do small monthly
Yes, just go to the platform and cancel recurrent payment, it is so simple that you don need to contact as!
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