Welcome to Costa Rica FIRE, where we share our experiences of pursuing a life of financial independence, early retirement and location independence. We write about real estate, travel, and of course, Costa Rica and FIRE. Below you’ll find our best highlights, and please remember to subscribe to our newsletter so that we can keep you up to date!
Top 10 – Our most popular posts
- Career Change After 40 Brings Me To Costa Rica – how we picked Costa Rica as a location to prioritize in our retirement.
- Cash Out Refi or HELOC – why we decided to do a cash-out refi when buying our first property in Costa Rica.
- Collecting Seashells In Tamarindo – with amazing beaches come amazing seashells!
- Costa Rica – Why We Chose The Gold Coast Over The Southern Zone – In our first trip to Costa Rica, we evaluated these 2 regions for our real estate purchase.
- Financial Bloggers Share What They Have Learned About FIRE And Personal Finance – The insights are so varied – proving there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to financial planning and FIRE
- How New Tax And Corporation Laws In Costa Rica Will Affect Real Estate – Three new tax laws were introduced in Costa Rica in 2019
- Is Real Estate In Costa Rica A Good Investment – the thought process around why buying real estate in Costa Rica.
- Options For Financing Real Estate – all the financing options we considered when we first purchased real estate in Costa Rica.
- Tamarindo – Why We Chose The Convenient Center Over the Quite Hills – the criteria we used to make our first Costa Rica property purchase
- Why We Passed On This $400,000 Vacation Rental Property – Digging into the numbers about why this $400,000 vacation rental in Costa Rica did not work for us.
Real Estate
Check out episode 773 of the Real Wealth Network podcast, where we talked about how we approach investing in real estate.
- How We Got Started – the story of how we started out in real estate and bought 15 properties in 15 years.
- 3 Investment Rules We Broke – when we purchased our first duplex, we had to break a few of our own rules.
- Researching Property Managers – finding a good property management company is not easy – here are the questions we ask.
- Finding Helpful Connections – you’d be surprised how we made some of our real estate connections.
- Turnkey Is Not Completely Turn-Key – we own several turnkey properties and share our experiences.
- When It Rains It Pours – owning real estate is not all fun and games, sometimes you get hit with expensive repairs
- Real Estate Resources I Love
FIRE and FIRE Lifestyle
- Crazy Rich Asians Screening – and other perks of the FIRE lifestyle.
- FIRE Is A Useful Career Planning Tool, Whether It Is A Fad, Paradox, Or Here To Stay – Aiming for FIRE is a great way to build a solid career.
- FIRE Lifestyle – Tips For Digital Nomads – thinking about becoming a digital nomad? We outlined some things to consider.
- FIRE Resources I Love – a sampling of FIRE books, blogs and podcasts
- How To Negotiate Flexibility At Work – you don’t need to wait until you are untethered from a traditional job to live the FIRE lifestyle.
- Our FIRE Trial Run In Jacksonville – we found ourselves without kids for a couple of weeks so decided to do a FIRE trial run.
- One Question That Saved Us Years On Our FIRE Journey – focus on the *how* rather than the *what*.
Travel
- 100 Dreams Of Travel Destinations – all of the places we want to visit!
- 12 Days In Arizona – Amazing Things To See And Many Sites Are Free – everything we did on a 10 days trip to Tucson, Phoenix and Sedona
- Seven Skills That Give Us The Time And Money To Travel – if you want to add more travel to your life, consider these skills.
- Philippines Trip Days 4-5: The Goodwill Part Of The Trip – we traveled to the Philippines to visit a non profit that we’ve been supporting
- Plan Your Trip Around Low Tide – with such a wide beach disparity between low and high tide, plan your trip carefully.
- England Holiday Highlights – what we did on our seven day trip to England.
Costa Rica
- Costa Rica is Awesome – May 2019 Roundup – news about the country, from deforestation to environmentalism to medical tourism
- Costa Rica Is Champion Of The Earth For 2019 – the country received the highest environmental honor from the United Nations
- Costa Rica Roads Made Of Molasses – That sweet smell early in the dry season might just be molasses covering the roads
- My 12 Favorite Restaurants in Tamarindo – all the places we love to eat.
- Happy Guanacaste Day – this holiday celebrates the annexation of the region we visit to Costa Rica.
- Costa Rica Is The Perfect Location For The Freelance, ‘Gig Economy’ Worker – if your work location is flexible, Costa Rica is a great place to work.
