Luxury Means More Than Just Price. Corrugated Tin Roof Homes & Lifestyle Magazine…

I was genuinely trying to help him avoid an embarrassing situation, but when he called me an ass*ole it dawned on me that our conversation was perhaps going in the wrong direction.

You see some people confuse luxury with price….

After beating around the bush for too long, I tried to explain as politely as possible that although he was asking $630,000 for his new, six bedroom “mansion” like home, it would not be fair to him, or to our VIP Members to feature his home on our site when his kitchen looked as if it came straight from the front cover of Corrugated Tin Roof Homes & Lifestyle magazine.

Although I did not mention my thoughts about the magazine …

Sometimes I can be too direct but there are only so many hours in the day and just because someone wants to try and sell a house to our VIP Members for a relatively high dollar amount does not necessarily qualify it as a luxury home.

The American man had paid his money for this house to be featured in our successful For Sale By Owner section and as requested, had emailed some photographs but – and I am sorry to be blunt – they were bloody awful photographs and this was brought to his attention…

In more diplomatic terms of course.

Luxury means more than price.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (I am British after all) the word luxury means “the state of great comfort and extravagant living” and you can easily buy a luxury home in Costa Rica for half the asking price of this house but that’s my opinion.

What’s your opinion? Does this kitchen look like a good example of “great comfort and extravagant living?”

Our FSBO customer had his money immediately refunded and I can’t help but think that he is also one of many culturally unaware people who mistakenly believes that just because someone speaks with a British accent that he is acting superior to the person he is speaking with…

That’s never my intent, there’s little one can do about my British accent and although I normally feel intellectually superior to most forms of microscopic algae, sometimes I even wonder about that …

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Written by Scott Oliver, author of 1: How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa, 2: Costa Rica Real Estate Scams & How To Avoid Them, 3. Costa Rica’s Guide To Making Money Offshore and 4. ¿Cómo Comprar Bienes Raices en Costa Rica, Sin Perder Su Camisa?

Andrew Makarik

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Andrew Makarik is the main editor of WeLoveCostaRica, a fan of this sunny country. He is also a loving husband and a has a lovely daughter. By being a devoted family man and the biggest Costa Rica fan, he wants to make more people feel at home there. WeLoveCostaRica unites people and helps them find new home or a new travel destination. This website is a friendly community where everyone can find not only information, but also new friends and travel pals. Andrew is also passionate about IT and programming, so he himself maintains a friendly atmosphere in this cozy environment of WeLoveCostaRica.com.