@Courtney Radmall Congrats on the awesome WIN!

And also find which method of finding sellers interest me the most and always try to have a Win Win Win situation, for sure.

We root for each other and learn from our wins, losses, etc.

In Costa Rica, pretty much only foreigners can afford them, and mostly wealthy foreigners who don't care to pay top dollar for a property.If you look at the return performance between Costa Rica and Mexico, Mexico win hands down both in terms of rental income and capital gain.

It ends up being a win-win situation for everyone.

It's our belief that one of the larger risk factors is if a REIT or regional player drops a 70k-200k sqft facility down the street.

A strategy that has been a win for me and a win for the contractor is to have the contractor go and pick up material then I pay by phone once the contractor is at the contractor's check out.

Now neither the attorneys that market these awkward, convoluted, expensive and administratively burdensome constructs, nor their victims who can't wait to jump into them at any price to prove to the world that they are a chest thumping real estate "player" would ever even begin to contemplate risk mitigation through the excercise of basic business due diligence activities. 

But I'm an advocate of the easy win on that first deal.

You win, they win, I win.