http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com Understand how it works, avoid the pitfalls, and be a part of some of the best living on Planet Earth. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:14:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received the below e-mail last week and have been working with "Jim" (name is changed to protect...).  His situation is one that I think a lot of folks will be able to relate to. Reading through your blog it appears that purchasing a home or property in the southern ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/12/gotta-b-rich-buy-land-in-costa-rica/ Wouldn’t it be nice to have a crystal ball that you could rely on to foretell what was going to happen? In the present “down” condition of the world’s economy, everyone is guessing what is going to happen. If one were to guess correctly, there is no doubt some opportunity ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/11/bens-predictions/ I bumped into a developer today that told me of some inspections that are going on in Costa Rica's southern zone. Since this is all just now happening I'm only able to report on what I know and have found on some news sites on the net. There was apparently a large ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/10/development-inspections-underway/ So we wanted to remodel. Full scale, plumbing, electrical, tile, roof and so on. One of the big motivations for the remodel was the bat problem we had. We had lots of bats living up in the attic. I know, as you read this you are ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/09/building-practices-costa-rica/ The Costa Rica real estate market is an immature market place. What I mean is that we are WAY early in the cycle. If you think back to Boston 200 years ago, I suspect that you’d find that there were large parcels of land for sale there. These were bought ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/08/costa-rica-real-estate-good-investment/ I think that in every real estate transaction that I have been involved in here in Costa Rica, the buyer has opted to use a Costa Rica corporation to purchase the property. I have explained the pros and cons various ways when asked, but I don't think that I have ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/08/costa-rica-corporation-clarity/ Perhaps the most common question I hear in recent months is: “how has the recent economic downturn in the U. S. impacted real estate in Costa Rica?” As a broker of real estate in Costa Rica, I work with investors from all around the globe as they search for ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/07/us-economy-affect-on-real-estate-in-costa-rica/ June 6th, 2008 Step 1 of the construction process in Costa Rica really is that you have determined the cost of building what you want and you have determined that you’ve got the funds necessary to achieve your objective. But that is not what this article is about. This one is about ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/06/building-in-costa-rica-step-1/ A great example of how to go about buying a piece of land in Costa Rica I thought that it might be interesting to catalogue the recent visit, well actually the current visit, of The Smiths. Their visit is very representative of what are perhaps the bulk of my presentations. From ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/05/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-costa-rica-real-estate-guy/ I was out with a client the other day. We had set up the appointment via e-mail. I had helped with getting him set up with a car rental, and we had spoken extensively via phone regarding what he was looking for so that I could have a presentation ready ... http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2008/05/the-problems-in-costa-rica-real-estate-caused-by-not-having-an-mls/