Our little House on the Hill...maybe?

So, here's a picture (with some photoshop additions ;-) Nice touch, Sebastian) of the little house on a hill above Cabrera.  I've been looking at this house listed on a few real estate sites since spring of last year. It was listed around $120,000...then $110,000...and then magically, the day we arrived 

in Cabrera, it was reduced to $75,000! That had to be fate! So, still reeling from seeing the possibilities of the unfinished property, but having no idea what the sales price would be, I called Sebastian at DRcoastalproperties and made the appointment to see this house.

We met at his office on the main road through Cabrera and it took about 10 minutes up a coliche road and down what seemed like little more than a path to the house.  It was built as the model house for a development by the owner and sits in an odd lot set back from the view.  The other 9 little lots are easily discernible by short rocky walls that have been built already.   But, for whatever reason the owner did not complete or didn't sell all the proposed houses and now it's little more than a rock-wall-strewn field.                                              

But, that's why the price is right!  The setting is nothing to crow about, but the potential is there and proximity to the little town is key.  It's about a mile from the main road and restaurants/grocery store.  That's important, because I would like the option to walk or take a mountain bike for a few items here and there.

Thomas will tell you I was NOT impressed.  There is an active termites nest in the front door, and trash (just papers and folders) in piles on the floor of one of bedrooms and in the living room.  But, structurally, there's nothing wrong and it's not dirty, just in need of some finishing touches.  The photoshopped foliage gives me some great ideas on how to break up the monotony of white, white, white...which is a good color for a house in the tropics with no shade from any trees around!