Buyers wanting to use the services of an RE agent will need to ask questions about the DR, how 'this and that' is done etc & I'm not sure how knowledgeable sreed is. Sellers will want someone with a proven track record of ability to sell. There are hordes of people dabbling in RE in the area, some well established, good companies, professionally run, others mom-and-pop outfits (2 couples for example) fairly recently arrived, knowing very little. Not only does the OP need to get the pulse of the industry he/she needs to learn about all the tricks in the book which the less reputable RE firms might pull on him, he needs to know who are the reputable lawyers and who are not, he needs to be able to explain processes like deslinde, he needs to understand how to form a company, taxation RNCs, NCFs etc etc. Loving the people and the land is regrettably not enough
. I also wonder how much he/she knows about the development and expansion which has already taken place in Sosua? The Cancun remark led me to believe that a study of the history of the area might be beneficial, for example.