ABOUT
Kali Tovar
Coldwell Banker La Costa · Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
WHO I AM
I didn't start in real estate because I had a plan. 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 I spent the next few years running 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.
I came back to real estate with something most agents don't have: I've been on every side of a property transaction. Buyer. Operator. Manager. The person who had to figure out the legal process in Mexico not because it was my job, but because getting it wrong had real consequences.
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.
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 make sure none of those unknowns became her problem.
I specialize in one market segment: foreign buyers and sellers in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit, in the $300K to $1.5M range. US and Canadian clients, fully bilingual, with five years of closed transactions and a system built to make the process legible from the first call to the last signature.
REVIEWS
What clients say.
Ours was a complicated closing. Phil and Kali were the right team for the job. From the beginning Phil even helped with staging as I was out of country. The fact that both are fully fluent in both English and Spanish made the whole process clearer and smoother for us. When it came to the technical side of the sale Kali just plain made things work. It would take too long to cover the hurdles I faced in this sale but these two battled through them all calmly and clearly.
Gordon Larson
We had an outstanding experience working with Kali Tovar at Coldwell Banker Puerto Vallarta. Selling a home in a foreign country comes with a lot of unknowns and extra steps, but Kali made the entire process feel manageable and straightforward. She walked us through every detail, anticipated questions before we even had them, and was there every step of the way. From the very beginning, her positive attitude and energy stood out. She is truly vivacious, and that enthusiasm translated directly into how she represented our home. We felt confident that she would showcase it in the best possible light and she absolutely did. She also showed a genuine excitement for the property itself, which meant a lot to us given its long and unique history. Kali combines professionalism with a personal touch that is rare. She took great care and attention throughout the entire process, and we always felt we were in capable hands. I cannot recommend her highly enough. Anyone would be fortunate to work with someone as dedicated, knowledgeable, and genuinely invested as Kali.
Romantica Properties
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Kali Tovar · Coldwell Banker La Costa · Puerto Vallarta, Mexico