Lake Arenal, Costa Rica
SOLD
H24 Lakeview home on village main street has income potential - $69,000

This duplex with a view of Lake Arenal and Volcano Tenorio National Park is ready for sale. The budget bungalow is located in the town of San Luis, Costa Rica, with a population of around 300. Enjoy a spring climate year round, not too hot and never cold. Bright and clean, this 1600-square-foot house is ready to live in or ready for the remodeling that is often done to Gringo-ize typical Tico houses. There's a carport and nice back yard with fruit and palm trees.

The house was previously owned by an extended family who converted it to a 14-room duplex with many temporary walls. The walls can easily be removed and the resulting very large space reconfigured as you wish. There are two kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and utility rooms plus what we might call a "bunch" of bedrooms. As many "Gringo" buyers of "Tico" homes have done, you can redesign it as you wish, including putting on a second story, as Gringos are doing who recently bought the house above this one.

The house has income potential as a rental, if you'll be spending only part of the year in Costa Rica. You could come down for the windsurfing season or for the summer and rent it out the rest of the year. Located on the paved road that goes through the village of San Luis to Tronadora, the building also has potential as a restaurant or other retail use.

From the tidy back yard there's a nice view over the house of Lake Arenal. The 1600-square-foot house is located by the main road through the pretty village of San Luis.
From the tidy back yard, there is this nice view of Lake Arenal and the mountains opposite. There's room to build a bigger home.
Here is the refurbished, solidly-built home in San Luis, a village newly popular with North Americans.
There's a carport and productive fruit trees. Beyond the tidy back yard is another Tico house being remodeled by recent American buyers.
Beside the carport is a variety of fruit trees as well as several palms.
Above the back yard is a home currently being remodeled by new North American owners.
Here is the hallway leading to the living room in the right half of the home. The living room in the left side of the duplex in San Luis.

A hallway in one side of the duplex leads past three bedrooms to the living room.

. Here's the Lake Arenal view living room in one side of the duplex
Down the road lies the center of the village of San Luis leading to small stores and two restaurants. From the front of this San Luis duplex, here is the view of Lake Arenal and the woods below San Luis.
Downhill a short distance is the center of San Luis. Nearby are small grocery stores and two very nice restaurants.
Uphill the road leads to the town of Tilaran, just 10 minutes away. A bus stop is right across the road from the house.
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