Building a House in Costa Rica 🏠 Do's and Don'ts Pitfalls, Should You?

#buildingahome #houseconstruction #dreamhome 'Building a House in Costa Rica 🏠 Do's and Don'ts Pitfalls, Should You?' Jillian has been living in Costa Rica for 9 years now. She bought some land (a little over an acre) in La Fortuna Costa Rica about 5 years ago, with the intention to build something. Well, it's happening. She and her partner, Arturo, are building their dream home. Neither Jillian or Arturo knew anything about building or constructing a home. However, they have heard all the horror stories of others who have tried to build but had horrible experiences, mostly because their lack of due diligence on the front end of construction. I, michael alan of Travel Costa Rica NOW have often advised people NOT to build if they didn't know or understand how Costa Rica works. Needless to say, Jillian did her homework. What does she say about hiring an architect? A project manager? Where is she getting her materials for her house, importing them from the US or buying them locally? Have they made any mistakes thus far? Things they would do different if they had to start over? You will see their house in this video and it's about a month a way of completion. So, if you thinking about living abroad, living over seas in Costa Rica and you're also thinking about buying property (land) and building your dream home... Check out this video, 'Building a House in Costa Rica 🏠 Do's and Don'ts Pitfalls, Should You?'

Who should actually try to build in Costa Rica?? It should be said, that construction is fraught with peril if you don't know what you're doing and there is horror story after horror story from those that we ill prepared to build in Costa Rica. 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 and architect, because they do exist. And being in Costa Rica, monitoring the construction, daily, is a MUST.

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