The story behind Casa Joy
A tool for owning a home in Costa Rica, built by someone who needed it.
It started with a stack of receipts
Owning a home in Costa Rica is wonderful. Keeping track of it is another story. Bills don't arrive in the mail here. The electricity is due when ICE says it's due, the water is a different account at AyA, property taxes live at the municipalidad, the marchamo comes once a year, and the HOA wants a transfer by the 5th. Some of it you pay at the bank, some through an app, some in cash to a person you know by first name. Miss one and things get cut off — or quietly accrue fines. For years my system was a folder of paper receipts, a camera roll full of screenshots, and a lot of WhatsApp threads. It worked until it didn't.