Costa Rica isn't one of those countries unfortunately.I agree with you Costa Rica is an amazingly beautiful country, although it's a question of taste.

My property is located in a C+/B- neighborhood has the following landmarks nearby: -1.5 miles from a major university with a popular D1 NCAA college basketball team-1.5 miles from a children's museum-1.5 miles from an art and nature museum-1.5 miles from a beautiful nature parkIt's the dead of winter, and I'm wondering who I can market and how I can best market my property to on Airbnb. 

Note I strive to minimize cash flow because it gets taxed versus other RE return are easy to defer or avoid the taxes.  

Thats kind of the beauty of thes exchanges.. you get to reposition your capital, ideally in a property that ticks more of the boxes you need.Now, thinking about older buildings.. some folks underestimate how well older properties can hold up if they’re in a good location.

It is a very well established market with solid, steady revenue, and it is beautiful to visit.

But, in the end, a HELOC is great to just have in case that beautiful day comes where I get a great opportunity.

However, as must as we strive for a hotel like experience we are not a hotel and we make that clear in listing and our welcome letter. 

The beauty of this is that intermediaries who work with me know that I make “fair” offers based on VERIFIABLE facts, that I follow through with completed deals unless important information was with held or information provided was false, and that there’s absolutely no value in presenting deals to me where the seller/borrower/investor is unrealistic, naive, or otherwise wanting to “test” the market.  

We focus on CapEX before beauty. as a realtor we understand selling or renting homes you have to make the home function, Roofing, windows, electrical and plumbing. after we address these we focused on beautify making sure the upgrades match the area and is forward thinking with color scheme, flooring, and flow.

Real estate is beautiful though because there are so many things to try and see what actually makes you happy .