We just bought a house in Sosua in July 2007. We did our research on the Internet and then started contacting real estate agents. The first ones we tried to deal with were through Coral Bay but they were in no hurry to get back to us or give us the information we were looking for. We then got in contact with Jim Belair from American Realty. He got back to us immediately and answered our numerous questions on each and every piece of property as well as different areas we were interested in. All that started in the spring of 2007 and when we finally went down there to look in July he met us and spent an entire week showing us the places we were interested in. He did not just show us the places he took the time to point out various problems with different areas and different houses, even ones we liked. We finally settled on a house that was not as expensive as some others we liked and that would have given him a higher return for his work after he showed up problems associated with the more expensive places, mainly security and water table problems. He helped us with our dealing with the lawyers etc and even after we had made our purchase and come back to Canada, he continued to do some running around and keeping in contact with the lawyers and previous owners.
I have dealt with many real estate agents here in Canada and have never had anything remotely like the service Jim has given us. It has come to the point where we now consider Jim to be a good friend of ours and visit with him when ever we get to go down to our new house. I will add his web link to this note and I hope you will take the time to check it out and at least talk to him. We are sure you will be happy if you do. Another thing you could do would be to put Jim Belair into the Search box at the top of the page and check out what people have said about him in the past here on DR1.
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