Our Costa Rica vacation home is nearly complete.

Build Your Own Vacation or Retirement Home Part XXV. 25 weeks and US$75,713.18 invested in construction so far.

Scott Oliver - June 2009

The weather has continued to be remarkably wet which has prevented us from doing any more work in the garden and has also made the access road to the property very, very muddy.

The new grass is certainly getting enough rain.

To complicate matters further, it would appear that there has been a serious rupture in the relationship between the maestro de obra (the foreman) and the rest of the construction crew.

Juan Carlos is probably one of the sweetest - and hardest working - human beings you could possible meet and, if what we have learned in the last week is true, he has been very much taken advantage of by the others which has been very disappointing for us...

Some flowers have already been planted.

Since Juan Carlos took out a mortgage on his home to fund the purchase of a some expensive equipment like a portable sawmill for their construction company, we will be visiting an attorney with him next week to try and extract him from what could be a risky scenario.

We had hoped to have the kitchen stove all hooked up for a our first night in our vacation home. Unfortunately we were given the wrong adapter in the hardware store to connect the stove to the gas tank so we were unable to cook.

This is our "entertainment centre."

We could have gone out for dinner but made do with a salad mixed with a can of red salmon and some wholewheat toast - Yup! We have a toaster - not quite the fillet mignon dinner we had planned - although it was still quite tasty accompanied with a lovely bottle of Argentinian cabernet ...

We are very pleasantly surprised at how incredibly quiet it is in this area and this morning's sunrise was simply breathtaking ...

Build Your Own Log Styled Vacation Home - My costs in USD so far:

Construction began during the first week of January 2009 and as of the 26th June 2009 the total cost so far in building this vacation or retirement home in the country has been US$75,713.18 plus the cost of the 5,000 square meters of land.

Some flowers have already been planted.

Written by Scott Oliver, author of How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa and Costa Rica's Guide To Making Money Offshore.

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