Costa Rican Housing, Real Estate Investments & Rental Property

The hiring of housing is accessible and abundant in Costa Rica. Except San of the Jose center, the rents for houses or apartments are reasonable-half or less the cost in the United States. According to the place and the personal taste, a small house or a large apartment usually rents for some hundred dollars per month. A house or an apartment luxurious can go for $800 to $1500 per month or more. The majority of the latter of the houses and the apartments of superior-end have all approvals of house: large rooms to be slept, a spectacular sight, swimming pools, gardens with the fruit trees, bathrooms with warm water, kitchens, dining rooms, a room of laundry and even quarters of good, since the assistance is if not very expensive in Costa Rica.

In the range lower by $300 than $700-you can intend to find of both at the house or the apartment with three rooms in a vicinity of the middle-class. Since the majority of wages of Ricans of coast less than $150 monthly magazines for the rent, some hundred dollars should rent a pleasant place to live. The majority of the houses and apartments accessible are not furnished. However, you can usually buy a complete household of the pieces of furniture of somebody who leaves the country. In this way you can save the money. The majority of these cheaper places will not have warm water. In the shower there will be probably an electric device which heats water. If there is no one of these devices, you can buy for approximately $30 and have installed it for some dollars.

By seeking a place, recall you to check the telephone, the shower, the size of cabinet, the boxes of kitchen, the exits electric, the lighting equipments, the toilet, the taps and the pressure of water, the locks, general safety of the building, windows and the state of the furnace, the refrigerator and the pieces of furniture, if furnished. Look at the ceilings for the indicating escapes and spots.

Moreover, control for the noise of the traffic, signs of the insects and rodents and as what the neighbors are. Enqu�rez you of the proximity of the buses and the availability of the taxis. Have anything which you sign translated into English before you the sign it. Only you do not sign do not include/understand not based on the word of the owner of the honor. You should realize that by law the owners could raise rents where the contract is in the columns a maximum of 15% annually. On the one hand, of the contracts in dollars can only be increased once every three years. There is a publication which you can buy who explains in detail how the laws of hiring of the country function (Ley de Inquilinato).

The rooms in the houses usually rent for approximately $100 monthly magazines. We know several foreigners who live in this way of saving the money. As we mention later, before the decision to live in Costa Rica in a permanent way, it is an good idea to rent a place initially or to find a true real estate agent which can show you around and to guide themselves by the process of purchase. As you just saw there are a series of options and scales of price of hiring to match any taste or budget almost. However, for gringos, the prices are generally much higher.