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Scott the Brit,
Oh my God you cad (I am liking you more all the time)! We were under the impression that you were spoken for. Maybe Costa Rica is the happiest place on earth afterall, a place where you can be married… and happy!
Unfortunatly for the gringo sucker who is going to pay me a pension I am ….
The problem is not the Americans themselves. The problems is the massive goverment.
Waht happpened to fiscal conservency.
I got all the mail from my friends against O bama and the other guy.
What I replied is – they are both the same – pick someone else to vote for.
That is the only way to change the system – vote outside the system. Don’t vote democrat or republican anymore.
The US has the mind, will and work ethic (too bad we have such an isolated culture) to lead the world.
The problem is we are too cumbersome. We have become a lethargic giant. Its big goverment and by the way the same big goverment the gringo followers wants to build here by participating with Tico goverment.
The Ticos have not paid 90% of their tickets (I bet the 10% represents grigo payments). Why? because the amount in punitive! Good for them. If thelaw is unjust then don’t follow it. Patriots don’t follow laws because they are laws. They follow laws because they are just.
Where have all the patriots gone, lomg time passes.
I think Scott does bash the US, and although I don’t buy into the conspiracy stuff, I applaud him for having the guts to post the things he posts.
isn’t freedom what it is all about?
Go Britt – exercise your freedom my lad even if at time I think you cross the line. But who am I to judge, I have crossed more lines in my life than anybody I know except well maybe Don Diego _ Go Z man too. BTW where the hell are you we miss you crumudgery!
From the Costa Rica consultant Phil Baker regarding wills.
FAQ REGARDING FORIGN AND DOMESTIC WILLS
Foreigners have two options: a will made by Costa Rican notary regarding assets in Costa Rica (domestic). The other option is to validate a foreign will with the Costa Rican government; in this case, an exequatur must be granted and sent to Costa Rica for approval and then duly recorded in the Public Registry. Recognizing a will executed in a foreign country requires embassies proceedings and the exequatur. This takes more time and is more expensive. Executing a domestic will is faster and easier.
The Costa Rica Civil Code recognizes two types of wills: The Open Will (public) and the Closed Will (sealed or private).
Open Will
An Open Will written in the presence of a Notary or written by the Notary requires three witnesses. If the grantor (testator) writes the will by hand, then a Notary Public and two witnesses are required. A Notary Public is unneeded if the grantor signs the attested hand-written Open Will and it is witnessed by four witnesses. If it is not hand written by the grantor, six witnesses must attest to it.Closed Will
The writing of a Closed Will follows certain requirements. Once signed by the grantor the will is sealed in an envelope and a Notary must draft a notarization on the envelope. The notarized statement must state that a sealed envelope containing a will was handed to the Notary by the grantor and that the grantor has informed the notary as to the number of pages contained in the will. It must also indicate that the will was written and signed by the grantor and whether or not it contains annotations or smudges. The Notary must record the proceeding in their protocol book (acta) and it then must be signed by the grantor and three witnesses.Intestate Succession
In the absence of a will or if a will is found invalid, inheritance follows intestate succession. The distribution of property and assets, in the absence of a will, depends on each case but usually if the deceased was married, the spouse inherits the major portion of the estate. From the total wealth of the deceased, the judge allocates the amount corresponding to conjugal property rights, and the balance is distributed between the legitimate heirs appointed by the judge. The Civil Code defines legitimate heirs as follows:First Degree: The spouse, children and parents of the deceased. If the deceased has no spouse, children or parents, the judge summons other relatives arranged in the following degrees:
Second Degree: The grandparents and other legitimate ascendants.
Third Degree: The natural brothers and sisters on the mother’s side.
Fourth Degree: The nephews of the deceased.
Fifth Degree: The uncles of the deceased.
Sixth Degree: The State. If the estate does not pass to the preceding five degrees, then the Civil Code specifically directs that the property must pass directly to the Board of Education in the district where the property of the deceased was located.Minor Children
If the property (or part of it) goes to a child, or children not legally adult (minor) the property can be registered under the name of the minor in the Public Registry; however, the minor is not able to administer the property. In this case, a guardian must act on behalf of the minor. A guardian should be appointed in the will, but if not the court can appoint one. The guardian priority order established at the Costa Rican Family Code is as follows: The grandparents are first; and in their absence, one of the brothers or sisters of legal age, and aunts and uncles are the third option. If relatives are unwilling to accept guardianship, the court appoints an independent guardian.These are frequently asked questions. Please contact us and we will be happy to have an attorney associate answer question specific to your circumstances and/or to prepare or notarize your will. Along with your will we urge our clients to consider a trust.
I used him to design my will and trust. He also has a copy in his files and we have a copy and Mr. Baker’s associate attoreny has a copy.
Ah Finca, you were baiting me eh???? Well I know we have butted heads before, but is there anything more important than health? I see people all the time doting on the care here. Now, the care is not what I am contesting. It’s the surgeon’s ability and the support professionals. If they have not studied in the US then they simply do not have the highest education and gone through the most rigorous requirements.
David, the day to day lying, cheating and stealing that goes on here and may I say is culturally acceptable is nowhere near that of the US. Now, if you are talking about grand larceny and the huge amounts of money that are stolen in the US by politicians and banking professionals, etc, then that’s a different story – and not applicable to my point at all.
I sighted that regarding the propensity for Tico to cheat there way through school/ I just had a vet here cripple my daughter’s first cat because she didn’t know how to give an injection properly. Do you know how much training you have to be licensed to give an injection in the US?
Here you go into a pharmacy and unlicensed people give injections all the time.
See my point?
If you want the best the US is where its at.
Does anybody disagree with that?
For me and my health – I want the best. Period. So if it’s a significant procedure I am going back to the states.
All you others can tell yourselves all the stories you want about the “top notch doctors” but to me top notch is top notch and very few here are not top notch – in my never to be humble opinion.
Unforseen circumstances… Hmm – sounds like my friend who had the collapsed lung – they said “because” the surgery took so long that the anesthesiologist was unprepared..
I wonder who cuased the unforseen circumstances and why were they “unforseen” anyways. Aren’t doctors supposed to be prepaired for the unforseen, at least the ones with experience are.
All hospital are for profit money making rackets. They give you everything and charge well for it. The three hospitals you have mentioned have dramatically increased in costs over the years and the quality of care has gone down. Obviously, they do not need the patients (clients) as all three have made a ton of money over the last 5 to 10 years. I remember going to CIMA when they first opened and it was the best service I had ever seen in any hospital. Not so now.
Then they had doctors who had been with the CAJA for years with tons of experience, now anesthesiologist, surgeons etc go into private practice without the years of practical experience from CAJA practice. One of my friends went under the knife at CIMA and the anesthesiologist collapsed his lung.
I was there last year and all the employees had dour faces. Not so the first time, as then you never had to ring, because there was always smiling faces around asking if you needed anything.
I know someone who is in medical school right now in Costa Rica and they are not Costa Rican and they cannot believe the amount of cheating that goes on here. Many of their fellow students do not talk to her because she is a top student and will not participate in cheating and has threatened to turn anyone in that she catches copying off her tests. She has given people several warnings. They say that with texting Etc, the Ticos have cheating down to a science and the school does not seem to care. This is a culture of cheating; just look at the professionals in most other practices, especially lawyers, and you will see how it goes. This cultures lies and steals more than any other culture I have been in except maybe Mexico, but even there the lower economic class is much more honest than Costa Rican lower economic class.
This whole line about CR doctors being as good as US doctors in a bunch of bull. They are second rate compared to the US. If I need to go under the knife, the only way I would do it here is if it was an emergency and I had to. Otherwise, I would be on a plane back to the US so fast it would make your head spin. So, you can tell yourself stories to make you feel more secure that Costa Rica has world class doctors (and there might be a few), but the majority are mediocre by US standards.
I find the above to be accurate and a good sumation of what to expect living cost to be here. The only thing I can add is the quality of items, service and labor is [u]usally[/u] below ones expectations, that is unless you have been living here so long that the bar has been drastically lowered. With lower expectation you will find yourself at times plesantly surprised. Anyways it a good coping mechaniam.
Just got off the phone with the Hacienda Matapalo salepeople. They say they have over 200 clients – whatever that means and they are halfway sold out! Right.. The build out is 2 and a half years. I think its VERY QUESTIONABLE.
I pressed her to find out what has been built and she said “nothing” but it will be… Have I heard that somewhere before – ah Pura Vida strikes again!
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wspeed1195
The people, the countryside, weather, etc, etc, etc – there are many positives to living here, but if your expectations are that you will be compensated when things go wrong, well be prepared for a let down.
The only way you can get thing done right in this country is to withhold the final payment. Fight fire with fire by delaying the final payment for a month to see what goes wrong and when you find out refuse to pay it until it is fixed.
If you pay in full and you have a problem, good luck.
Now I lknow somebody is going to write in and say, so and so did this and it wasn’t right and we paid in full and he came back to fix it, Ha! The exception to the rule, not the rule.
If someone gets frustrated enough to use this forum to hurt the reputation of an honest company because they lost a key and a wrench, then just how do you think they will handle it when their new lawn mower is ruined by the gardener because he never change the oil?
Or the maid uses chlorine bleach on their colored clothes, or does not understand how to use one of those “Gringo washing machines” and never bothers to adjust the water level. So she washes a full load with minimum water and double detergent and walla – whoops there goes $500 worth of clothes! Ha!
Just wait until the gardener washes that new Toyota with a Scothbrite pad! These people will go ballistic! They will want to ride their bicycles back to the good ol US of A just to be around people that can use appliances and understand what a can of Pam is for.
I can just see them trying to sue the maid for fraud because she said she knows how to cook without salt or sugar, but man, she must have used ocean water to make the Gallo Pinto, and MM, MMM how about those Costa Rican lemons? – sure are sweeeet! I could make bio disel from the leftover grease on some of the plates maids have prepared for me.
Oh and wait until the neighbor throws an old tire on the burning trash! Ha – they will probably call SETENA! Costa Rica is defiantly not for everybody especially those who feel they are entitled to things working perfectly, and if they do not – they want to be compensated.
Please let us know if you get your car rekeyed, you security wrench replaced, and the undercarriage engine cover repaired or replaced.
Oh and if you don’t (and I seriously doubt you will), after your law suit to recover damages has come to a conclusion 2+ years later, and by some miricale you do get a judgement, let us know when you collect that judgement, that is if you haven’t gone home yet…
It will cost more than the original retainer not to mention what the attorney will cheat you for, to take it to court.
Oh and one more thing, excuse me for doing you the favor of trying to open your eyes to the reality of living here.
And of course “Pura Vida” and good luck!
I paid $400 to have my car insured from Port canaveral to Limon.
Like I said you have your skivies in a knot for very little considering all the things that do and will go wrong in Costa Rica. Remember Pura Vida Happens. No I do not work for the shipping company but you are so typical gringo with the attitude that people in Costa Rica are going to make you whole after you complain. You ain’t in Kansas anymore and although you can fuss and fume and bang the table all you want that doesn’t play here.
I know you itellectually understand this, but can you accept it?
The ansewer to that question will determine if you can make it here or not.
Costa Rica is not for siisy who cry foul for whatever small reason.
Just wai until you get involved in a court battle here, or even try to get compensation or even a fair bill form ICE or the AyA. If this shipping episode has you playing the “Ive been wronged” card, just you wait.
I suspect after several month you will be thinking “Jeez, that guy on the fourm was right – Pura Vida happens everywhere here…”
Prepare yourself or don’t cancel that return ticket!
I meant the we Ship CR people.
Regardless of your idignation, I think you are out of line to hold then responsible for an extra key to the point of wanting you car rekeyed. That US entitlemet attitude does not play here. If you think it does, than you just started your first Costa Rica university course “Head Banging Without Recourse 101.” Most people that take this course Ace it – and then return home.
BTW – They could have not stole your key and merely copied it! You never know is the point.
Say this Today in Inside CR
“Points or not points, the is the discussion of the legislative commission analyzing the reforms to the Ley de Tránsito that was inherited by the legislative assembly which calls for, among other things, [u]a reduction in the high fines[/u] and point system that went into effect on March 1, 2010.
Francisco Chacón, legislator for the PLN, said that next week the commission will be hearing arguments from the Ministro de Obras Públicas (MOPT), Francisco Jiménez and representatives of the Jueces de Tránsito (traffic court jusdes).”
So do you think this is why people are not paying because they are waiting to see a reduction in the punitive fines and the draconian law.
Really, I find driving here intolerable at times but come on – the amount of the fines for Ticos to pay is harsh punishmen at least.
It reminds me of the States where every little infraction is $500.
Worth it to whom?
Well it seems it was not worth it to you. Nevertheless, it was worth it to me. I brought a car in because I wanted the extra safety features and the larger engine that was not available here. I wanted what I wanted and I paid about the same for it, and went through the hassle. And it was a hassle.
Really when I shipped I left one key. I did put a second set of floor mats which were stolen. But that was about it.
Regarding anything stolen I believe that is between you and the fright company that shipped the car. If you want to hold the CR people responsible for having a car rekeyed, I think you are out of line. Who is to say that someone could not have copied your keys? So a missing key is no big deal.
I think you are being too finicky. If you keep up this attitude of expectation here in CR, you will probably end up wishing you had not moved here.
You need to be realistic in the land where Pura Vida happens. Things go wrong here and I exclaim Pura Vida daily! And I am not talking about the tranquility and environment! Excrement happens frequently and you would be wise to take David’s advice regarding counter excrement measures! LOL
You bought your Toyota in the States amd shipped it here. That voids the warranty. The Toyota dealer here will not honor your warranty.
So you saved $2,000? Really – what is the Toyota Warranty worth?
To me it is not worth it. And what about the time, damage and agravation of it all? Better to buy new here.
I would have never left a spare key. I think that was your negligence for sure. Only one key is necessary, and you shipped two – that was your bad.
