www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Right now the strategy should be low ball, low ball, low ball. Promises of cash can sway a lot of minds with the market as it is right now..

I will vouch for Big Mike as the coolest cat in Costa Rica!

MK,

Whatever happened I have PM'd you. Did you buy it

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Livin' & Lovin' in Key Largo....oh....And the one in The Keys, too!

The two biggest idiots in Costa Rica: 1) The guy who says don't buy anything in CR. 2) The guy that says it is easy to make money on property in CR.

You spend all day running around with some unlicensed (not that that means much mind you....) dweeb; the price on everthing is pretty much all jacked up due to the fact you're from the USA; people is right proud of what they got and the price they will sell to 3rd cousin on Papi's side is NOT the price which will be quoted to you (NO SALE is better than a LOW SALE, right? )

Instability throughout the aged infrastructure (what there is of one) is both a good thing and a bad thing....but in the short run (10 years???), it's going to cost YOU the property owner.

Best factor in the purchase of security services and a % of your monthly budget for repairs to break-ins and attempted break ins, blah, blah, blah.

Rent, rent, rent. Penetrate the infra-structure; deal with locals; learn, learn, learn and PERHAPS THEN it might be time to even consider purchase. It is not a cake walk.

Oh....whatever you do...don't buy on or near the beach.....buy as high up as you can get...as in in the mountains.....

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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

I think you may be right. Rent, rent and then rent. Once you have lived in a place for a while you really come to understand that advantages and disadvantages of a place and the true value of the land.

Yes renting is the best choice at this time.

OK, I get the fact that you want to sell the land. Lots of issues and the US Embassy website just addresses 3 of them as the most popular. Squatters seems to be the number 1 issue and I doubt that has been reformed thru the legislature as its a populist move and appeals to the campesinos. Squatters can gain title to land that they squat on if they do it long enough. Hire a guard you say; well, it used to be that say guard could have the same rights if he worked there long enough. Lots of payoff potential. The other is exploitation; the government taking ur land. Used to be popular near the national parks. I forgot the 3rd one as the first 2 scared me off. Hope that helps.

http://sanjose.usembassy.gov/proprigh.html

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“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” And we are the guys that keep them in Eggs & Grits

There's one of the reasons that CR will never escape the 3rd world country label. This is a fucken joke.