Kali Tovar

I've been on every side of a property transaction. Buyer. Operator. Manager.

For a few years I ran a fixer-upper building conversion into a boutique hotel, twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Managing employees, guests, payments, eviction lawsuits, occupancy monitoring, reconciliations. The kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up on a résumé. I resigned in December 2024 and came back to real estate, having had to work out the legal process in Mexico not because it was my job, but because getting it wrong had real consequences.

I specialize in transactions where the obvious path is not enough. Incomplete records, a financing route that does not fit, cross-border coordination, answers that contradict each other. I investigate what is holding the file up, map the options that are actually open, and coordinate the right professionals so you can make the next decision with clarity. US and Canadian buyers and sellers, fully bilingual, five years of closed transactions in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit.

What I do differently is document everything. Market data. Legal process. Closing costs broken down line by line. Most agents in Puerto Vallarta sell the lifestyle, and the lifestyle is real. But the buyers and sellers I work with are making decisions that involve hundreds of thousands of dollars in a country that isn't theirs. They deserve the numbers, not just the view.

None of that was the plan. I didn't start in real estate because I had one. I started because I got fired.

It was 2020. I had a son, no salary (real estate agents don't get one), and a mother helping me keep things together while I trained. I picked up side work to survive. I studied law for three years until the pandemic forced me to choose: university, my son, extra work, or real estate. I kept two. The market exploded. I met my now-husband. And then came the building conversion.

One of the transactions that stayed with me was Casa Romántica. Karen had spent years managing her father's properties, handling guests, operations, logistics. Casa Romántica was the last one. Selling it meant closing that chapter and starting the next one, traveling the world with her husband, finally focused on themselves. Selling a home in a foreign country comes with unknowns. My job was to explain each one, document what we had, coordinate the notary and the paperwork, and answer her questions before she had to ask them.