It's all about figures and Costa Rica doesn't and won't have the mass tourism to make the numbers work.

These beach towns are historic vacation rental markets and rely heavily tourism.

Notre Dame has turned a corner in the past 3 or 4 years and has really embraced the community.

We live in a vacation city in the mountains of NC, robust tourism, and around 4 million visitors annually.  

Overall I am thinking that tourism traffic is still in a recovery phase but will eventually pick up (Take a look at this article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/money/2018/04/03/news/puerto-rico-tourism/index.html ).

There are still homes here that would meet your critiera (3 bed / 1.5 bath home with a $200K budget) depending on the neighborhood you select...though most will need some repairs or updates.SA has a relatively strong/stable renter pool thanks to solid economic growth, a large military footprint, and steady tourism.  

Anyone that EMBRACES the fact that she "dabbled" in witchcraft years later is an idiot...pure and simple.

This is what our country was founded upon...I'm not sure why you are arguing against it instead of embracing it, and thanking whatever god you might believe in that you have these amazing, wonderful, fantastic things call rights under this absolutely awesome document called the Constitution.

My father owned tourism based businesses, and liquidated a few years ago, his contacts got him onto a group who buy property management rights, they offered him a buy in to the next property, a resort on the Gold Coast (one of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia), this investment (which was thoroughly looked over by his accountant and lawyer) over the past 3 years has been netting him on average 18% per year, passively.

There is probably a niche market there (and maybe a lucrative one for the right person and situation) but I quit doing seasonals in my area early in my landlording career.In my area, 3-4 month rentals are in demand in some time frames during the year (summer tourism, legislative session e.g.), but having done a few short term rentals early on, it just did not pencil out well for me.