For a few years, they'd been circling the idea. A second home. A vacation property. Something for the family. Whatever you want to call it, they'd been thinking about it.

Mexico came first. They looked seriously. Nothing clicked. Then COVID changed the calculus entirely, the way it did for so many families who suddenly realized that time together wasn't guaranteed, and that the places where you spent that time mattered more than they'd thought.

That's when they were introduced to Adam. And that's when everything changed.

"The moment we walked in, I knew. It was the first property where I could actually see our family in it."

GoForth Owners, Scott & Tracey

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Why the Dominican Republic Beat Everything Else on the List

They'd looked in Florida. Put in offers along the Panhandle. It's a great market but it wasn't much easier to get to from San Francisco than Cap Cana. If you're going to travel, the Caribbean offers more for the effort. They also explored Belize, Cabo, and other parts of Mexico.

One of the deciding factors was something deceptively simple: the water. At most of the properties they visited, the ocean wasn't really swimmable. At Cap Cana, the water is spectacular. And when your daughter is a marine biologist, when the whole family scuba dives, when you travel with seven people who love the ocean, that's not a small detail. That's the whole point.

• Ocean Access: Swimmable, pristine Caribbean water — a deciding factor for active families who live in and on the sea.
• Something for Everyone: Golf, ocean activities, kids programming, 5-star dining. No one is waiting around for someone else's preference.
• Space to Actually Live: Not hotel rooms where everyone disappears. A real home where families cook together, eat together, and are together.
• 5-Star Brand Quality: The brand standard of a 5-star experience, without the stiffness. High-end, but genuinely livable.

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The Fractional Question (Yes, They Had It Too)

Like almost everyone who hears "fractional ownership" for the first time, they thought: timeshare.

But this is different. They own the property. It's theirs, shared with a small group of families with similar lifestyles and similar values. The math makes sense when you look at it clearly: a 3–4 bedroom beachfront home at this level costs what it costs. Do you really want to deploy that much capital into a property you'll use a few weeks a year? For most families, the honest answer is no.

What unlocked the decision was a simple thought experiment: what's the worst case? Even if everything went sideways, they still own the property. They could sell. They weren't stuck. That security, combined with the simplicity of how GoForth structured everything, made the risk feel like exactly what it was: manageable.

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"Even in the worst case, we still own the property. That was the unlock for us."

GoForth Owners, Scott & Tracey

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The Part Most People Don't Expect: How Easy It Actually Is

Setting up the LLC. Managing the property from thousands of miles away. Dealing with rentals, maintenance, things that pop up. For most people, that list is the reason they never pull the trigger on an international property.

With GoForth, it's handled. The team is on the ground. The ownership structure is simple. When this family arrives at their home in Cap Cana, they arrive. They don't troubleshoot. They don't manage. They just spend time together, which is the only reason any of this exists in the first place.

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The Real Reason They Did It

They'll tell you themselves: this was never really about investment returns. It was about what happens when kids grow up. When jobs and school and geography pull a close family in different directions. When getting seven people in the same place at the same time requires a plan, and a destination worth planning around.

A place where everyone wants to come. Where the kids want to bring their kids. Where cooking dinner together is the point, not the pregame. That's what they were buying.

The investment upside, the rental income, the appreciation, the offsetting of costs, that became real over time. They're open to it now. But it was always secondary to the thing that actually made them sign: the vision of their family, in this place, year after year.

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"We have a place in the Dominican Republic that we share with a couple of other families who have similar lifestyles to ours, and we can just pick up and go."

Scott & Tracey on how they explain it to friends

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What Made the Process Feel Different

The first time they visited a property with Adam, it didn't feel like a sales trip. It felt like traveling with a friend. They were building memories before they'd even bought. The team made them feel welcomed, not courted. Like family, not like a transaction.

That tone never changed throughout the entire ownership journey, from the Discovery Trip to signing, from setting up the LLC to walking through the door of their home for the first time. Easy. Comfortable. Exactly what it should feel like.