Feb 18, 2010 | Education, Real Estate
Last week I spent four of the longest (and, surprisingly, some of the most interesting) days of my career in the real estate course offered by the Cámara Costarricense de Corredores de Bienes Raíces (Costa Rica's Chamber of Real Estate Brokers). If I'm going...
Jan 22, 2010 | Real Estate
Seriously desperate. Not I'm-a-real-estate-broker-looking-for-a-sale desperate (like in regular real estate sales' pitches), but two honest-to-God I'm-a-seller-and-gotta-sell-this-house desperate. So seriously desperate, the sellers said I could say...
Oct 16, 2009 | Real Estate
I promise not to bore you with all the listings on CostaRicaScout.com, but here is a 10% price reduction on an already well-priced brand new Costa Rica mountain property: 3 bed/2 bath, 1650sf, 3/4 acre lot, spectacular views, hour from the beach, hour to my...
Sep 23, 2009 | Philosophy, Political Blah-Blah, Real Estate, Religion, Spiritual Stuff
After Monday’s long post, which clearly took me hours to put together, my dear Key West friends Pat and Viktor wrote me saying I must have too much time on my hands. Whoa nelly, I wish. If I had plenty of time, I’d be blogging. But the truth is, I have too...
Jul 5, 2009 | CR: Working, Real Estate
I did it. I’m taking a massage course from the Costa Rica School of Integrative Massage. Three days a week, 9a-2p, for 12 weeks, $10/credit hour. If I do all 500 hours required for licensing, that’s $5,000. Since I don’t intend to be licensed in the...
Jul 2, 2009 | Donations, Indigenous Societies, Real Estate
Speaking of Costa Rica real estate and abandoned projects, Scott Oliver has an excellent list of questions to ask your salesperson here (you'll need to sign in but tons of good information). If you are moving to Costa Rica and looking for real estate, this is a...
Jun 25, 2009 | Guanacaste, Real Estate, Theatre
We're livin' the life of Riley down here in lazy Costa Rica. Even without a plugged nickel to our names. How we manage this, I'll never know. But I'm not going to ask too many questions and I'm not going to look at the balance sheet....
Nov 11, 2008 | Real Estate
Go here and surf around these real estate deals… oh my goodness, some of these homes are CHEAP. There’s a house in Costa Rica up in the hills behind Alajuela with two acres of land for $27,000. And a U.S. house with land for $7,000 total and 52 bids! Ok,...
