The Guys just got themselves certified! Rod & I are now card carrying Costa Rica real estate agents. Imagine that.
I know – you’re saying: “I didn’t know that there was such a thing”. Well, in fact there isn’t, yet, but there is about to be, and so we have joined a number of our peers in anticipating the coming change to the U. S. (and elsewhere) model of licensing for real estate agents.
The organization is called CBR or “Camara de Bienes Raices” (Chamber of Real Estate). Perhaps you’ve seen the CBR logo around on various websites. You’ll be seeing it on ours as well now. It is a 4 day course of 8 hours a day. We did it, enjoyed it (for the most part – butts are a little sore.), met & networked with lots of people and now feel just that much more entrenched with our chosen industry in Costa Rica.
CBR has proposed a law that they feel will become adopted this year of required licensing of Costa Rica real estate agents. Our position is that this will be