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'New Video' - Living Modular in Costa Rica 🏠 Modular Homes as an Option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfUPPO9sE9Q

A month ago we toured a factory in Cartago that will make the modular homes for Johnny's community project in La Fortuna. Travel Costa Rica Now received a ton of emails indicating they didn't really care about the 'community' per se but were interested in the modular homes. Fair point. This is just a short follow up video to that video (links below on the tour of the factory and Johnny's Community Project videos).

Write to us at [email protected] for more INFO on these modular homes and/or the
Retirement Community.

The Community in La Fortuna-

- 7 different modular homes
- quality materials (life span of the homes are 100 years)
- they will be on stilts to be off the moisture of the ground in Costa Rica
- made to endure heavy rains, high humidity, earthquakes and mold.
- this company does A-Z (foundation, moves and builds the home, electrical, plumbing EVERYTHING, no middlemen messing things up.
- homes are ready in about 4 months (very fast for Costa Rica)
- since they are made in a warehouse, the rainy season does NOT delay your home

QUESTIONS about this community email us- [email protected]

Sequence of videos about the Retirement (Assisted Living) from the last one uploaded to the first-

Jan. 14th 2023 Modular Home Factory- https://youtu.be/el1DdlqHniQ
June 14th 2022- https://youtu.be/6XlgfZygHK0
May 10th 2022- https://youtu.be/n4OO-cBcTkA Out at the Site PROGRESS
April 26th 2022- https://youtu.be/xl0Q_CO1LXE Q&A video.
April 15th 2022- https://youtu.be/kJWVHQmNnjw A Great Idea (first video)

This is BIG, this is HUGE, Johnny has had this vision since 2007. Now the stars have aligned and it looks like this project is a really happening- 240 homes on like 110 hectare (1 hectare is 2.47 acres). This is going to be an almost all inclusive community. Organic farming, grass fed cows, chickens, vegetables, stores and also hot springs in the community so the grand kids have something to do and much more. This community is about a 9 minute drive from La Fortuna central and about 20 minutes from Lake Arenal and it's in the shadow of the Arenal Volcano (good shot of this in the video). This is obviously a big project but it is going and we're pretty excited. Obviously much more info coming as it changes as I'm sure there will be many questions.... which we will try to answer as this community progresses. I am not trying to sell you anything I just believe this is an interesting and needed project and it is geared to gr**gos without the 'gr**go pricing'... but remember, Costa Rica isn't for everyone but this project might appeal to some of you.

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Build or Buy Your Dream Home in Costa Rica? retire, relocate, expat life in Costa Rica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB47xhRZlr8&t=258s

00:00 Start
00:55 Who should buy land and build?
03:26 Problem with building
03:50 Who should build in Costa Rica
05:00 Looking to build on the BEST budget possible
07:30 Evaluating the Real Estate Market
11:45 What everyone that builds says about their experience
12:55 Matt's experience of building his own house in Costa Rica
14:25 Coming down here with enough money but going over
budget
16:49 Home Depot, Lows, construction big box stores

Who should be buying in costa rica real estate versus who should be building

Hey guys i'm michael alan from Travel Costa Rica NOW .com and we're talking real estate
We're gonna be talking to Matt from www.lat10realty.com He's a real estate agent up in the Guanacaste area (Tamarindo).

I can tell you that i wouldn't be talking to him unless i believe he had some integrity and some honesty and as i've gotten to know him i believe it even more. He's the expert in this subject.

We're going to be talking about who should be buying in Costa Rica real estate versus who should be building...building versus buying pre-existing and maybe some of the shortcomings in both or who should be doing away.
the people that i would say you should definitely buy land and build instead of buying existing construction it's going to be few people that i say that to. obviously as a real estate agent there's a big benefit to me buying existing construction so that comes with the grain of salt.

We've discussed how many people come to costa rica and leave two to five years down the road. The cost of construction today is almost unanimously across the board unless you are an absolute miracle is going to be greater than the cost of existing similar construction that you could find because that churn that brings people to costa rica buying property building their dream home and then leaving in two to five years that creates inventory and motivated sellers that have accrued with time especially in the fall out of the 2009 - 2010 crash and currently in a market hiccup like the one we're going through. you can expect a ton of sellers to enter the market and right now. buyers are not coming down. so literally to replace most of the homes that you'll see on most real estate website is going to cost less than what it would cost to build it today and in lots of cases, with motivated sellers you could get something similar or comparable for far less than what it would cost to build today. driven by the motivated sellers also inflation and the rising materials costs with time. costa rica is getting to be a more expensive place to do business for contractors.

it just seems like building is just fraught with so many possibilities of things going south very quick and it's like to me at least the first thing that somebody should be kind of understanding the construction of things, knowing a little bit of things, maybe lived here long or something because just to go ...

who should actually buy and build?? construction is fraught with peril all over the place and you can have a horror story in the world basically. and in costa rica it's even more so / the people that should build here are only the subset of people who can either do everything 100 percent themselves and build a home from scratch, doing it themselves or the people that have the money and the time and the wherewithal to find a good contractor because they do exist. and if you're in that set where you can't , you can afford to hire one of the good contractors, there are developments that have engaged builders who are brilliant. those people can give you the house you want on the timeline they say and the budget they give you, and if you have the money to be able to hire that person and yes there they do exist here

if you're looking to do things on the absolute best budget possible i would highly suggest that buying land and building if you're not part of those people who can do it all yourself its going to end up costing you more in the long run. if you come down with that idea of i need to save as much money as possible and you start looking around for contractors they're all going to give you their bids and as a budget oriented client you're going to be looking for the contractor who gives you that good number and they're frequently in costa rica the contractor who's not going to do that good job so even though it's a harder bullet to swallow if you're coming down with x budget for costa rica i think that you're right in that category of people find something existing that you can afford with your budget because a piece of land is a hypothetical thing that you can afford with your budget. .. if you're saying i want to get land in a house for three hundred thousand, got the land for 40, now i need the contractor to finish at 260. and it's not going to ...it's not going to. That's around the world.

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