Aerial view of a turquoise bay on the Guanacaste coast of Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a different game

David Alfaro, agente RE/MAX en Costa Rica
Know me

I didn't move here.
I'm from here.

Almost every agent you'll meet in Costa Rica arrived as a tourist. They fell in love with the country, stayed, and got a license. Some of them are genuinely good at this. But there's a difference between learning a place and being from it.

I was born on this coast. I speak Spanish with the man selling the land and English with you. I know which builder cuts corners, which lawyer actually returns calls, and which street loses water pressure in March. Nobody taught me that. I just grew up here.

I work with RE/MAX, but I focus exclusively on the Guanacaste coast, Playas del Coco, Playa Hermosa, Playa Ocotal, Potrero, Flamingo, Tamarindo and Las Catalinas. That focus is deliberate: it's how I actually know every builder, every lawyer, and every street here, instead of spreading thin across a whole country.

And I'll tell you when a place is wrong for you. That costs me deals. It's also the only way this works.

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