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Originally Posted by venus
Bob
the place I am wanting to go see is a new commmunity, they also offer as part of buying a home through them the following
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To help make your life easier in Costa Rica, when you purchase a real estate in xxxx you also have the option to receive as part of your package:
Assistance with the residency process in Costa Rica
A Costa Rican Corporation (S.A.)
Help in opening a local bank account
Aid in obtaining a Costa Rican driver?s license
A cellular telephone line
Discounts for construction materials from Do It Center hardware store in Guanacaste
We do more than just make your purchase of Costa Rica real estate easy, we attempt to make adjusting to your new life here a breeze as well.
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so this sounds pretty good, hopefully I can go down next weekend to look at the area.
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venus,
It sounds like a good idea and a decent service. When are you going down there?
I'd be interested in hearing about your experience with them, if you decide to use them. However, being skeptical and cynical by nature, I would be very cautious about receiving and exercising the purchasing advice from such companies. I've lived in many third-world countries and have fallen victim of real estate scams. Heck, it happened to me in the states too. The most common structure seems to be of a larger group owning the smaller companies, and one refers to another. They conceal problems with the real estate, overprice them, and give misinformation to the foreigners to facilitate the sale of real estate "duds" basically. I'm not saying that all of them are like that, but based on my experience I've found that foreigners are often taken advantage of and a referral system as they described leaves them open to operating a parent company with both legitimate and illegitimate subsidiaries which can baton the operation to each other.
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