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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Get to Know your Real Estate Professional at the Beaches Section

Meet Mr. Tim Fenton and BLUE ZONE Realty International in Uvita, South Pacific Coast.

Unfortunately, none of my emails were answered. Shortly after returning home to Canada, we suffered one of the larg- est total loss house fires in the region that we lived in. This experience was both traumatic and life changing for our family. My real estate and property man- During this trip we discovered the Southern Pacific region of Costa Rica, and without a lot of planning or even a lot of discussion, we ended up buying a resort in Uvita. We returned a short time later with our children, and we pur- chased our home in Cinco Ven- tanas. By September 2012, we were living in Costa Rica full time, and starting our new lives. With more than 25 years of working in the real estate industry, it just made sense to share the joy and the wonder of living in Costa Rica with others, and hence Blue Zone Realty International was founded in early 2013. agement legal consulting practice had afforded us a nice lifestyle, but in a mat- ter of a few hours, while we were out of town, all of our possessions were simply gone. While we were trying to piece our lives back together, my mother-in-law in-

sisted on taking our children to her home in New York and encouraged us to take a week away to clear our heads. With heavy hearts and a lot of hesitation, we returned to Costa Rica. Did you move by yourself initially or bring your family down with you? Where did you live before coming to Costa Rica? Our family moved to Costa Rica togeth- er, and we relocated here from Ontario, Canada. Do you recommend the move to Costa Rica as being better for a Retiree or is it equally good for a younger family who is able to work remotely or does not need to work? Do you see this as a good desti- nation for the Digital Nomad? Although a large number of our clients purchase a home in Costa Rica with the intention of using it as a vacation home and not moving here full time until they retire, a greater number of people have decided that moving to Costa Rica full time is a viable option for them. Several companies in the United States, Canada and Europe have allowed their employ- ees to work remotely during Covid which made the idea of living and working re- motely a reality. I am excited to see that there is likely going to be a new immigra- tion status in Costa Rica that will make it attractive for digital nomads to live and work in Costa Rica.

M rr Fenton, please tell us how you decided to come to Costa Rica and what made you decide to stay and to become a leading Real Es- tate Broker for High End properties at the South Pacific Beaches? We first visited Costa Rica in early 2012. On one of our last days of vacation, we rented a car and decided to visit the hot springs and Arenal volcano. During our drive, we encountered a sloth crossing the road, and while at the hot springs a toucan landed just a few feet away from where we were sitting. These two wild- life encounters had us hooked, and we started wondering what life would be like in Costa Rica (once we retired). I have worked in real estate since 1990, and so I instinctively sent emails to a few brand name real estate agencies be- cause I wanted to satisfy my curiosity.

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