Well I guess it’s as sure as it’s going to get so here is the scoop: We signed a contract to buy a place in Rincon!
A few weeks ago while I was sleeping Jack (Cassie’s Dad who recently passed) came to me in a dream. We were in Puerto Rico on a sunny day on top of a hill. It was on the west side of the island and I could see the ocean from where we were. I don’t remember all the details about it but a few things stood out.
- Jack was waiting for us in Puerto Rico or already had a place.
- The house reminded me of playground equipment for some reason.
- The place had an ocean view.
When I woke up I told Cassie about the dream. I had been waiting for Jack to visit me in my dreams and he finally did! I remember telling him something like: “Well if you already had a place in Puerto Rico why didn’t you tell us!!! This would have been so much easier!”
Fast forward a week…Maybe a week and a half. A Realitor calls me while I am at work. I met him in PR when I was down there last time and we looked at a property. He said that the sellers of the property wanted to extend an offer/price. They knocked $270,000 off of their inital asking price! Well I told him that I’d have to ask Cassie, but I am pretty sure we would make a deal.
Here are a few pictures of the place. I have some video to upload later on too. There is a main wood house, a small studio concrete guesthouse and 4 acres of land.
This place meets nearly all of Cassie and my criteria. It is a perfect compromise really. It has some land to move around/build on, it’s located in Rincon and it’s affordable. We really like Rincon because it will be an easier transition to move to, there is the possibility of making our own rental/vacation home business there, and there is a lot of great events and things going on. When I looked at this place before I didn’t take it too seriously because they were asking so much.
The house is a wood treated place which is good and bad. It’s good because we will have a place to stay while we are down there. It’s bad becasue we are planning to eventually take it down and put up a concrete house of our choosing. I like this though because it is more of a ‘pay as you go’ option. We don’t have to take out a major loan, we can design it how we want it and it has something we can use now.
Both of us are SUPER excited about it, and even more certain that it is the right decision. The down side is that we have a contract on the other place near Isabela. We are going to break the news to that realitor soon that we had something totally unexpected come up that will prevent us from purchasing that property. There isn’t much money on the line so it is something that Cassie and I are willing to let go and chalk up to the cost of the other place.
This place in Rincon is going to require a lot of work and improvements to make it what we want. That’s fine though. We are looking forward to the challenge (as we’ve done before with our rentals)! And in the mean time, we can enjoy the sunset over the ocean from our literal dream home in the tropics- which will make it all the more worthwhile.
