If you are already living in Costa Rica, invest there. You know the area, so you should know where the best locationas are, and you are there yourself to watch over your investments.

[[[......do you honestly think Donald Trump and other real estate leaders haven't found it possible to guarantee themselves 100% or even 1,000% or more?......]]]]]

There is no difference at all between Donald Trump as an investor and any of us. The figures he works with are bigger, and he has more experience. However, he puts his money at risk just like we do. In fact, Trump has occassionally failed and made an error and lost millions.

There are very few secrets or tricks to real estate. If you are searching for the secret of riches that nobody knows except for the very rich, you are going to be searching for a very long time. There are very well studied laws of economics that determine how real estate is going to react, what is going to be a good investment, what will hold it's value, what will never pay it's own way. Anyone with an elementary education and a calculator can figure out whether or not a project is worth investing. And that is exactly what Trump does: he runs the figures, just like anyone else does.

There is nothing you can do in the field of investing that does not involve some risk. The safer the investment, the lower the rewards. The more risk, the higher the potential of the rewards (but no guarantees.)

If you want safe, put your money in a passbook savings account in the USA. It's guaranteed by the federal government. You can't lose. The only problem with such safety is the interest paid is currently less than 1%. No risk at all, very little gain.