Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes Have you had this dream: you’re sitting on the balcony of your luxurious condo on a Costa Rican beach, sipping a piña colada? Well, this is a pretty common dream for those who live through cold winters year after year. Thousands of snowbirds fly down every year, to enjoy their…
Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes When moving to Costa Rica, and without being here, apartment hunting is not so easy. Finding the right apartment can be a bit challenging at a distance. Especially if you have never been to Costa Rica before, you probably don’t even know where to start. Not knowing your options and…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Making a real estate investment can be very rewarding. Yet it’s also fraught with a lot of challenges and risks. Especially if you decide to do it alone. There’s a belief among real estate investors, almost taken as gospel truth, that you can never go wrong with investing in real…
Estimated Reading Time: 8 Minutes If you plan to live in Costa Rica, you better get used to the fact that plants and trees will play an important part in your life. They say, “stick it in the ground and it grows”. That’s because we have so many volcanoes here. Volcanic eruptions have deposited the…
Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes Many real estate deals go sour because buyers do not know how to make an offer on a property. Often, that happens because the buyer hired an incompetent real estate agent or because the buyer goes FSBO. Often buyers don’t realize that they are in another country with different rules,…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes A tenant-landlord relationship can be exceedingly difficult, even if the landlord-tenant law is clear to both parties. Disputes are quite common and unfortunately, in Costa Rica, it is costly for either party to take the other to court. I always keep interesting articles on my computer, this one was written…
Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes Are you planning to have your next adventurous vacation to Costa Rica? If so, then get ready for your new experience! Are you looking for an adrenaline rush or want to relax and unwind? Then this list of adventurous and fun things to do in Costa Rica will surely help.…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Bringing the right talent into your team can significantly impact your Costa Rican company’s performance, especially if your business is people-dependent. Many businesses are moving away from systems that are highly dependent on the capabilities of their employees. Nonetheless, there are still processes and transactions that can only be consistently…
Estimated Reading Time: 12 Minutes Is buying a business in Costa Rica a smart move? Or should you start one from scratch? If you plan to move to Costa Rica, you will need to create an income, right? I know, it’s not so easy to do business in Costa Rica. But don’t worry, we will…
Estimated Reading Time: 7 Minutes Did you buy property in the middle of nowhere and now you hate the place? Don’t hang yourself, walk away! How can you stop yourself from buying a property in hell, though it looks like paradise? Buying Costa Rica property in the middle of nowhere is easy, selling it again…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Are you planning to enter University in Costa Rica? Do you want to gather as much information as possible before you travel? Costa Rica is a beautiful country and offers some great options to enter university. My own brother-in-law, who is from the Canary Islands, did medical school in Madrid…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Did you know that real estate agents seldom list foreclosed property in Costa Rica? Unusual, isn’t it? Real estate licensing is not mandatory. This is the reason banks do not use real estate professionals to sell a bank-owned property. Only in a buyer’s market, some banks ask realtors to register.…
Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes Why use escrow in Costa Rica real estate and how does it work? Some foreign buyers of Costa Rica real estate just assume that this works the same as it does back home. Wrong! Let’s start at the beginning. In Costa Rica, local buyers, as well as sellers, do not…
Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes It’s funny how I found The Ultimate Guide to Buying Property in Costa Rica online but it’s not really a guide to anything. They advertised it on every Facebook group they could find. I read the whole article, but… It’s just another stupid article by a newspaper that didn’t even…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Did you know there are quite a few Poles moving to Costa Rica? Many have lived part of their lives in the US. But, they’re still Poles. We all have that life that we all dream to live after retiring. Many people want to live at the beach or enjoy…
Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes How can owning a Central Valley condo be a great idea for a thalassophile? Well, once you live at the beach in Costa Rica, you’ll realize you’ll have to get to the Central Valley more often than you think. Although the larger cities around the beach areas offer more services…