I am in Tamarindo, Costa Rica this week taking the classes for the National Association of Realtors (R) designation for International Real Estate. This consists of five 8 hours days of classes on International Real Estate. Today was day 2.
If you are a Realtor thinking about International Real Estate, I would strongly encourage you to take these courses. There is so much information to learn and my instructor David Wyant is really awesome. David is a retired IBM executive who lived in France and London for a while during his career at IBM. David has literally been all over the world. Also, I was very pleased to find that most of the people attending this conference had similarly interesting stories. One lady has lived in Athens for 12 years and now moved to the Boston area. A gentleman from Scotland lived in Zambia working in copper mines but relocated to North Carolina. A single mom of Cuban heritage from Miami is moving back to Costa Rica. An English lady who lives in North Carolina once lived in Saudi Arabia. Two or three Canadians are in the class. People speak English, French, Greek, Spanish, and Russian. The common factor seems to be that all are xenophiles.
About 5 of those attending are Realtors (R) in Costa Rica. (Yes, that is correct. The Costa Rica Global Association of Realtors is associated with NAR.) In addition to our class work, the local Realtors (r) have arranged for us to take several property tours. We are getting a crash course in the Costa Rican real estate market, the economy here, the infrastructure and geography. We are meeting developers and local property management professionals.
Tamarindo is on the Pacific coast. As I am here this week, the temperatures have been in the 90s. No rain. (although this is the dry season) A beautiful sunset every night. This is truly a wonderful place that everyone should visit.
Enough for now. I will try to do more later in the week. Maybe even get some of my pictures up.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
David
David W. McCoy
Associate Broker
Commonwealth Commercial Real Estate
10444 Bluegrass Pkwy
Louisville, KY 40299
ofc: (502)379-6005
cel: (502) 905-5274
e-mail: DMcCoy@ccre.biz
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