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Originally posted by @Lucas Carl:I don't think we have any SA experts here on the STR forum but I could be wrong.

In this post, I share with you the pre-construction investment benefits in the Dominican republic in the tourism sectors like Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, Sosua, and others.Among the benefits of acquiring properties on plans are the following:1- Capital Gains: the increase in the value of a property over time, due to different factors, such as accessibility, location, within the urban environment, services and infrastructure, and urban and architectural value.2- CONFOTUR tax benefits: law 158-01, which establishes tax benefits for real estate investors in the country's tourism sectors, which grants the benefit of tax exemption for 15 years.a)- Real estate transfer tax 3%.b)- Real estate asset tax (IPI) 1%.3- Financing available with an interest rate of 0%:Which works depending on the policies of each project, it normally works as follows.a)- the unit must be reserved from $2000 onwards.b)- They are given an approximate period of 21 days - 30 days to complete the downpayment 20%.c)- it is financed in monthly installments without interest until 50% of the value of the property is reached at the time of delivery 12-24 monthly paymentsd)- the remaining 50% can be financed with a bank or you can pay it cash.4- Resort administration: which guarantees monthly profitability and a return on investment which we could talk about by a zoom meeting..Thank you

@David Hill thanks for the post!  

In this post are goal is just provide great information for local and long-distance investors.

Found this post as I myself would like a York/OGT place, but the numbers don’t make sense.

Originally posted by @Peter T.

I've seen in other forums people posting to watch out for county liens, back property taxes, HOA debts, IRS liens, quiet title process etc.  

What should you look for before deciding if a property is a STR or regular rental You are given great advice in all of the previous posts.

That's alot to unpack in 1 post.