When people think about doing something in retirement a B&B or a small Boutique Hotel comes to mind rather quickly. Most feel that if they have people skills and a sense of hospitality needs for travelers, it can be a good business with a minimum of start up training. While this is true, in the past it was not so easy. Marketing ability was the key factor in success as is today so one needed a lot of this experience or savvy.

Today, it is much clearer and easier with advent of Internet marketing, a good Hotel ranking systems (trip advisor) and websites. To really have an immediate impact and improve performance the following can take an existing business and improve the business by large percentages.
Simply embark on a program of personal community interaccion with travel agents and tour operators, area taxi drivers, bar tenders etc. Add this effort to your web site marketing, Hotel ranking and existing customer base and you will have a winner. The best part is that you will have a lot of fund meeting all the contacts in the areas, adjusting to the new lifestyle, making new friend, enjoying the cultural changes and making the extra income.

Here is an example of a couple of good deals at present that one could take advantage of in this market. In both cases they have need to return to their Country for unexpected things that happened in families.
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This one was just reduced to $339,000. It is located in Costa Rica Prime Retirement location, Atenas.  Atenas is set in beautiful Mountains all around. It offers a nice home with pool, good income (recorded) best climate anywhere and many ex patriots in the community. You don’t have to sell anyone on the area. In fact, you probably already have heard about it or been there. It is only 20 minutes from Escazu in the Capital of San Jose with all it’s world class health care, great super Malls and fine dining of every imaginable type. Also, going the other way 45 minutes to the beaches and attractions of the central Pacific.  See this beautiful Atenas Bed and Breakfast here.

This one adds Ocean to the mix. It is located on one of Costa Rica white Caribbean beaches which offer great diving and all the water sports.

It has been reduced drastically to $325,000. This was originally $495,000 and was price right then. It is one of the nicer Boutique Hotels on the Caribbean side.  Owner has emergency need to return home very soon.
See this Costa Rica Oceanfront B&B

Buy a B&B such as these - Live in it as your residence - Budget your time and profit requirements together to maintain a comfortable balance of keeping active, relaxation and discovering the new culture and lifestyle activities.

We have various opportunities in most of our locations across Costa Rica .  If you wish to look into this great alternative, call us and we can give you good counsel on areas and product available that matches your budget and lifestyle objectives.

Toll free 888 581 1786 and in Costa Rica (506) 2293 2446 ask for Robert

Lake Arenal is a wonderful very large man made lake with choices, but you need to choose the right area…….

Here is why the south west is the best area of beautiful Lake Arenal

• It is 22 miles from the Volcano but still see the majestic symmetrical shape in the distance
• It has 50% less rainfall and is green all year round
• It is 5 minutes from the beautiful small town Tilaran with 4 super markets and all services
• It only 20 minutes from the new Hospital in Canas with all it’s services as well
• It is only 1 hour and 15 minutes from Liberia, the hub th north and the international Airport
• It is only 1 hour and 30 minutes from the famous Guanacaste beaches
• It is only 2.5 hours from San Jose, the Capital with it’s multitude of shops, restaurants, Hospitals and more
• For one of the most famous Restaurants in all of Costa Rica 30minutes at Nuevo Arenal (the Gingerbread house)
• Only 1 hour from all the hot springs and famous Arenal Volcano in the town of Fortuna.
• Pricing is very comfortable. Example nice lake view home on 1000 sq meter lot for $155,000
• This is an unbelievably good area for  Retirement or Vacation Home Investment or just plain long term investment.

See it in all it’s beauty and splendor here.  (it takes 10 seconds to open as it will scan for virus)

To make a complete tour of this beautiful part of Costa Rica with it’s marvelous views give us a call at  888 581 1786 ask for Robert.

If Costa Rica is an option for your retirement or investment, please check things out.
You need  this.

Please contact us directly NOW at 888 581 1786 and ask for Robert or Steve.

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Expanding our sales force
We are offering sales positions for various areas of Costa Rica and seek experienced sales or motivated individuals with a good marketing sense.

We seek
Associates that have the ability to become well versed in our philosophy of client care service and who will strictly adhere to the company’s code of ethics.  We require that you clearly understand the reporting policies and your role in client database procedures that accomplishes this. 

The Company: 
We are country wide with franchises or sales agents in all areas suitable for retirement and investment. We are completely data base driven utilizing the best technology to serve our sales force and clients alike. We specialize in the retirement and vacation home markets and feature our Lifestyle Real Estate Tours.  We prioritize use of our systems and marketing programs. The company is very well known and our business model is quite unique. We are found very high in Google for all search terms that relate to our business objectives. 

Our Technology
Our website, coupled with the power of MSN, Yahoo!, Google, and numerous other marketing entities presents our portfolio of homes to those interested in Vacation homes or Retirement in Costa Rica. The combination of technology and personal sales service creates a platform for effective home searches and also results in the most qualified buyers for your property.

Contact:  Robert at 1 888 581 1786 toll free  or 506 2293 2446

Atenas is a very popular Real Estate choice
for retirement and relocation alike…..

Atenas, Costa Rica is a very popular choice for Costa Rica Retirement or Relocation.  It’s year round excellent climate, proximity to everything (20 minutes to the capital and to the 50 minutes to the Beach), makes this a prime location.  More, the location usually offer gorgeous mountain and valley views.  The small town of Atenas is bustling these days with all it’s new population.  It is a prime area for people seeking semi retirement and wanting to have a business. Atenas has all the services for living comfortable, good internet, television and major health care services only 20 minutes away.

Here are a few examples of what you can find. 
1614 sq ft home with beautiful views, 2 bedrooms with computer/office space $249,000
2282 sq ft home with pool, beautiful views, 2 bedrooms plus computer/office space $329,000
These two villas are built on 2 adjacent lots, setting up a perfect family complex would make would make a
perfect family complex or, 1 residential and one rental for income. Price $ 550,000 for Both.
4400 sq ft home with nice infinity pool, 3 bedrooms, 2 pavilions, computer/office space, one acre lot
with great mountain views $585,000

Fully serviced Lot of over 4 acres fronting public road $165,000

This project emphasizes Bali-inspired tropical architecture, featuring open floor plans, peaked roof lines, deep covered decks and patios, inside/outside features and visually-open wood-and-glass walls. The community is unique in terms of tropical architecture in Central. The  site is mountainous with fantastic panoramic views: to the northeast, the Atenas Valley with Póas, Barva and Irazú volcanoes in the background, to the southwest the Rio Grand Valley and to the east, the Central Valley with thousands of lights coming alive at nightfall.

Access to the project is by a good public road from central Atenas (2km).  It is located inside the Cerros de Atenas protected forest reserve, dotted with a luxurious vegetation, including many specie of precious trees like the Guanacaste and Matapalo, flowering trees such as the brilliant orange Poró and many fruit trees including mangoes, limes, bananas, papayas and oranges. A wildlife corrido extends from the Rio Colorado, and carablanca monkeys, sloths, anteaters, and birds including toucans and trogons are regularly seen from the villas.
This particular project focuses on land development and creation of residential communities in Central and South America. They are a boutique land developer creating investment value for clients along three themes: nature, architecture and culture.

We have sold a great number of homes in the area and for people looking to retire in this climate we always feature Atenas Real Estate on our Lifestyle Real Estate Tours.  
Call us for more on Atenas 1 888 581 1786 Ask for Robert

During the craze when everyone was buying with equity loans and hoping to flip for a good profit, Developers would promote their wares as if anyone buying will see a nice gain every year (we were on board as well) .  Further, when asked if they would handle their re sale, the answer was, definitively, yes.

One such case our Company experienced was in the Pacific where we applauded the quality location and promise of Golf and flag Hotel.  We confidently sold our good client in good faith, a luxury unit strictly as an investment.  When it finally finished and was ready for sale, no attempt was made to sell it for our client.  We tried as one Real Estate Company to move it for him with no success. Finally the client got caught in the recession. His business was hit hard and he dropped the price incrementally and finally arrived at $ 120,000 off what they were selling for at the time and they still didn’t let anyone know about it even though they sold a number of the new units of an asking price of $495,000.  Imagine if one of these clients heard about this one, how fast they would have went for it.  It was a better location also.

I personally wrote the Company principal reminding them about this very unfair treatment and of course, got no answer at all.

Here is the flip side We have been selling Real Estate in Atenas for a number of years and worked a lot with Roca Verde, a Developer partnership of two men that had carefully selected the property and plotted it to get good sized lots with great views.  It is basically all sold out but for about 5 lots and the new phase will open soon.

What prompted me to write this was the contrast in attitudes of these two projects.  We just added a new person to our sales staff, Patricia Ugarte and our Listing Manager, Kathia took her to see all of our Atenas properties that we market.  When they got to Roca Verde they received  a good presentation of what the owners Norman and Jon had left for sale. They had 2 homes under construction and a few lots left. Later,they very graciously asked Kathia and Patricia for business cards so they may pass them out to people who wish to sell their homes in their project.

That speaks volumes to me even though I personally would have expected that from these gentlemen,  I have been around many deals with them and never recall a problem with repair, delivery or quality.  They are hard workers, business men of the first order and gentlemen.  I wish them well.

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