When I first arrived in the heart of Costa Rica’s Southern Zone, Ojochal was a tiny place, just a few stores at a crossroads. As always, I took a closer look. I explored down thickly forested roads and got into the hills, combed the beaches…and I found some fine restaurants run by passionate expats intent on serving the best and freshest food.
In Costa Rica’s Southern Zone demand is sky high and climbing. It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth. Vast tracts of primary forest run down from the mountains to a coastline hemmed with magnificent Pacific beaches.
It’s one of the world’s most beautiful bookshops, a stunning Neo-Gothic mix of stained-glass windows, elaborate wood carvings, and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
That’s what it costs to scour the world for killer opportunities. I’m on the road six months out of every year. My team too. This year so far I’ve been scouting in Asia, all over Europe and Latin America…and there’s a lot more travel coming.
I’m writing to you from Ireland. Close by is the harbor town of Cobh where pastel-colored houses are stacked up steep hills and a cathedral towers over the ocean. Cobh is popular with cruise liners. It was the last stop of the Titanic
When I arrived on Tulum Beach in 2004 it was down a dirt road. I found miles of stunning white-sand beach, a few rustic palapas and the warm waters of the Caribbean.
RETA members who got in on that deal are already sitting on paper gains of $52,492 to $60,465 depending on which of the condos they locked down.
It was a straight-up RETA deal, just the kind that our RETA-edge gets us…off-market, insider…we got in before anyone else at a much lower price.
Last Valentine’s Day I brought RETA members our first-ever deal in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
If you got in on this deal you’re already sitting on big gains… $52,492 $60,465 depending on which condo you locked down. Those are huge gains in value in less than six months.
If Alfredo Aleman had known 12 years ago how much sweat, tears and eye-watering amounts of money he needed to achieve his dream in the Bay of Panama he swears he would never have started.
I’m so glad he did.
Wednesday, July 22, 2019 – Pull up a map of Spain and Portugal’s southern coasts. Now, draw a thick line from Malaga in Spain to Lagos in the west of Portugal.
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