Was there around a year ago and saw all the infrastructure, the World Cup, the nice people, great place to live.You're living in a good market.Gino

The overwhelming majority of those people are bums that can barely afford a cup of coffee.

Message me and we can go grab a cup of coffee

Dirty work, not fun work, but will get you inside a lot of homes, maybe help you learn Spanish, and help reinforce how picky you want to be with tenants. 

If people don't want to deal with long-distance landlording, I think that's totally fine.Jeez, I really feel like I'm going through the Spanish Inquisition over basic stuff everyone does all the time.

Or you could get even more creative and find someone who wants to learn to play the piano or speak Spanish and you can be their teacher. 

I am licensed in PR and know agents if you want some names of english speaking agents who negotiate in PR Spanish. 

When all is done I head to the office and and put in 4 hours of time, 2 cups of coffee, an avocado dip, lemonade and 46 miles travel on the clients bill.

Even better, she is bilingual and speaks fluent Spanish. 

I've run the numbers on homes in our price range within a 3hr drive radius of our zip and they just don't make sense as rental units.I'm fluent in Spanish so other than the financing problem maintaining a rental in Costa Rica vs another market in the USA that requires a flight is fairly comparable from my perspective.Its funny because buying a sub 70k house anywhere in the US would be so easy for us.