Your Best Investment Opportunity in Guanacaste… Ten Minutes from Costa Rica’s Best Beaches… 48 Minutes from the Airport…
Welcome to The Oaks, Tamarindo - The Golden Coast
An exclusive gated community, The Oaks Tamarindo is ideally located in La Josefina, five miles from Tamarindo and less than ten miles from Playa Grande, Playa Conchal, Brasilito and Flamingo, in the heart of Guanacaste’s Gold Coast.
The Oaks features spacious 2 bedroom condominium units built with exquisite attention to detail. Personally tour top quality construction that you can see and touch, surrounded by native oaks, over 70% of which have been carefully preserved, a rarity in this zone.
The Oaks is ideally located on a new paved asphalt road that takes you directly from the Liberia international airport to your home in just 48 minutes. You are just outside Tamarindo, where you can enjoy the active night life and attractions without having to live next door to them. Or you can easily drive to the best beaches in the area, including Playa Grande, Playa Junquillal and Playa Negra, or visit Flamingo, Brasilito or just north of Huacas, where you can enjoy nature tours, ATV tours, a monkey park and a zip line tour. If you have extra visitors, they can stay at the brand new Marriott Resort and Hotel at Haciendas Pinilla that opened for Christmas 2008.
A brand new supermarket outside Tamarindo, the AutoMercado, adds city grocery shopping to your conveniences. Or you may not want to leave. The two semicircular pools with infinity edges and underwater fibre optic lighting, Weber barbecues and ranchos, a children´s pool, an adult semi-Olympic lap pool, and a yoga and Tai Chi pavilion beneath native trees used by resident howler monkeys may be all you need the first day or so. And on the same hill as The Oaks is Panacea, a yoga retreat that offers day spa programs by reservation. Just ask our concierge.Take advantage while you can of this unique opportunity to enjoy Costa Rica's beauty for under $200,000.
What Is An Environmentally Planned Community?
First, you start with land that is not environmentally sensitive to begin with. You also buy enough land, in this case 31 acres, so that you can design a complete community for people, plants and animals, not just a lot on which to put buildings. You do not build in an estuary; you do not build on a beach for endangered turtles; and you do not cut down mangroves.
Second, you study the land so that, as you build, you do not create soil erosion; you do not clear the land in order to build your buildings. Instead you build around native trees, saving over 70% of them in the construction area, not just in a separate "nature preserve".
Third, you study pathways of native animals, such as howler monkeys, and create biological corridors so that roads do not break up natural paths for feeding.
Fourth, you install utilities underground, including electric lines and fibre optic cables. The number one cause of death for howler monkeys is electrocution by overhead lines.
Fifth, you treat wastewater up to 98% purity and use it for irrigation, so that you do not waste precious well water.
Sixth, you conserve water by designing rain water capture systems to conserve water from the rainy season into the dry season, offering low flush ecological toilets (high pressure) and front loading washers that are more expensive but save both water and wear and tear on clothes.
Seventh, you install fluorescent bulbs in common areas, reducing electricity usage and costs, and reducing maintenance fees.
Eighth, you keep thinking. Something new will come up.
The Oaks Design
The Oaks offers two bedroom/two bath units with over 980 square feet of total construction area and almost 900 square feet of living area. Each unit has a private covered parking space.
Each unit enjoys high 9 feet 4 inch ceilings, with soaring cathedral ceilings and attic storage with third floor units. Third floor units also enjoy a semi-private outdoor patio area, technically a part of the common elements and therefore not artificially expanding the unit’s size.
Because each unit is located on one level, the units use space to maximum effect. The two bedrooms are of virtually identical size, ideal for renting or sharing with another couple. The large bath attached to the second bedroom has a special privacy door for the toilet area, functioning as a bath and a half. Ground floor units have a private garden, technically a part of the common elements.
Because we have observed various and inconsistent methods of calculating the number of square feet or square meters within a condominium unit in Costa Rica, we show you our floor plan measured in the three most common ways: from interior wall to interior wall, mid-wall to mid-wall, and outside wall to outside wall. Actual measurements may vary slightly during construction. We will adjust your purchase price on a dollar per square foot basis in the event of a variance of 2% or more from plan to construction.
Roof structure enclosed in galvanized iron and covered with traditional colonial tiles
Double-paned aluminum windows for heat and noise protection
Iron handrails
Privacy gardens surrounding most ground floor units
Floors
White porcellanato PEI4 ceramic floors.
Porcellanato is a word of Italian origin that is associated with tile that possesses a high degree of toughness and durability. Porcellanato is classified ISO 13006, indicating material compressed to an absorption level less than or equal to 0.5%. It is obtained from base materials of great strength, and then submitted to a heat and pressure treatment greater than that utilized for the production of conventional ceramic tiles. Porcellanato type PEI resists abrasion and scratching. Porcellanato type PEI4 is more scratch-resistant than conventional ceramic tile of the same PEI. It is also heat-resistant, friction-resistant and resists expansion as a result of flooding.
Living Area
Solid hand-crafted cedar entrance door
Halogen spot lighting with outlets permitting low-energy cool lighting
Ceiling fan with or without light
24,000 BTU Carrier mini-split air conditioner
Venetian stucco accent walls
Two lighted corner niches
Lighted wall with acrylic finish and niches
Elevated platforms for surround sound system
Kitchen Area
5 linear meters of cabinets, computer shelf and wine rack, all hand crafted from Costa Rican cedar
Granite countertops with breakfast seating area and four hand-crafted cedar stools
Double stainless steel sink with waste disposal and top quality faucets
Hidden cable TV outlet, for high speed internet connections and placement of wireless router
Hidden antenna for wireless alarm system
Built-in cedar storage closet surrounding refrigerator
Overhead lamps and halogen spot lighting with outlets permitting low-energy cool lighting
Laundry Room
Cultivated marble sink for hand washing
Outlets for side by side electric clothes washer and dryer
40 gallon electric hot water tank
Bedrooms
Solid cedar closet with beveled mirror
Overhead lamp with fan
Halogen spot lighting with outlets permitting low-energy cool lighting
9,000 BTU Carrier mini-split air conditioner
Venetian stucco accent walls
Sliding glass door with recessed track leading to patio or balcony
Cable TV outlets
Personal safe in first master bedroom
Elevated platforms for surround sound system in first master bedroom
First Master Bathroom
Jacuzzi tub with shower
Tempered glass shower door
Open lower cedar wood cabinets
Marble countertop
Cedar upper cabinet with built-in lights and mirror
Hair dryer
Second Master Bathroom
Open lower cedar wood cabinets
Marble countertops
Shower with tempered glass door
Separate toilet area for privacy
Built-in mirror with indirect lighting
Others
One privately owned covered parking space per unit
Ample guest parking
Gated entrance and 24 hour security, with on-site monitored alarm system
Underground electric and fiber optic cables
Paved brick parking areas
Sidewalks with indirect lighting
Three infinity edge swimming pools and two barbeque areas
Children’s playground
Outdoor Vita fitness course
On-site concierge, porters and maid service
Adjacent nature area with lake, botanical garden, hummingbird sanctuary, butterfly pavilion and biological corridors
Careful attention throughout to energy and water conservation
Furnishing Options
Fully furnished (approximately $17,500) or mix and match furnishing options, guaranteed at developer’s cost, including:
Stainless steel Frigidaire kitchen appliances, or equivalent, including dishwasher, refrigerator, oven, glass top electric ceramic range, white front loading clothes washer and side by side clothes dryer. While more expensive, a front loading washer uses half the water of a top loading washer and is easier on clothes. Total cost approximately $3,000.
Complete living, dining and bedroom furniture package, including if desired modern sofa, futon and chairs from world famous Scandinavian furniture brand BO Concept, total cost approximately $8,500.
Complete soft goods package, including high quality mattresses, bedding, pillows, linens, towels, kitchen items, everything except your toothbrush, total cost approximately $2,000.
Two 42 inch wall mounted flat screen plasma TVs, Samsung or equivalent, DVD player, high quality cable connections, fully installed and tuned, total cost approximately $4,000 (or less, prices are falling.)
All information presented here and in these sites is proposed and is subject to change or elimination by the Developer at any time without notice. The questions and answers on this website are for informational purposes only. All questions and answers proposed are subject to any change without any notice.
