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 their upper budget limit of $200,000 for raw land, to their purpose for the purchase: they hope to relocate to Costa Rica in the coming years, a consideration of their experience will likely be a help to other who are looking to buy land in Costa Rica.
Using the Internet, Mr. Smith did the research on the Dominical and Uvita area real estate agencies and their listings. Mrs. Smith studied the geography of the area and what the various zones are called. They wrote to me asking for 3 references, which in fact isn’t so representative of what most prospective buyers do, but I think is a very smart idea.
To digress for a minute, all us real estate folks down here in Costa Rica are not licensed. There is no policed, nor enforced, procedure for buying land in Costa Rica. Consequently,