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American looking for information about Puerto Rico
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Cost of Living in Puerto Rico in 2020 by Loïc
Hi everyone, Every year, we invite expats who are living in Puerto Rico to share their experience and tell us more about the average price of products and services in their town, city or area, so that we can help future expats planning to settle ...
Cost of housing depends on what part of the island, how close to the beach and how many luxuries you want. I bought a comfortable mountain top home with an ocean view, updated the 2/1 main floor, 2/1 cabana, added pool, paid cash at about 1/3 of ... Read More
Time Is Here To Buy by mrtibbs
Hello all, So the time is upon us to buy and we will be in Puerto Rico (our home away from home) in a couple of weeks to start looking at properties. Initially, we were going to make a cash purchase but have decided it'd be wiser for our ...
The realtors have very little to show as are usually only seller's realtors on the island. They don't have a good MLS and so each transaction has to be negotiated for commision so it's not like in the states where each party gets 3% and ... Read More
Renovating a house in PR by taryna
Hi everyone! I am back on here. We went to PR in November and even though we got rained on just about every day we still loved it and are now considering buying our vacation home there. I've stalked Zillow and Points2Homes for weeks and have ...
All is possible, island time is about the same as mountain time (found that when redoing a Colorado home). I bought a dated home in Aguada mountain with ocean view...as an interior designer I can change anything in a home but can't change the ... Read More
Rincon neighborhoods. Buying a place by CoachCon
Hi all I'm jamie. My husband & I are looking for a place to retire! We fell in love with rincon & are looking for a condo, townhouse ( preferred) or residential. I want to be in walking distance to the beach & to walk to the plaza. ...
Many for sale properties are not listed by an agent. Check with www.livingpuertorico.com as my daughter, Sara, lives in Aguada on edge of Rincon and has done much research on the housing opportunities and she has friends that are selling direct, I ... Read More
Retiring in Puerto Rico by Priscilla
Hello everyone, Why did you choose to retire in Puerto Rico? What are the advantages compared with your home country? What were your main considerations when deciding to move? For example, taxes, ease of transferring your pension, etc.. Are ...
In the research of how to retire from a small business I was running into the stone wall of taxes...so much capital gains & ordinary income taxes on money that already had taxes paid on it over 34 years that it was seriously going to cut my ... Read More