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Posted Jul 20,2006 4:55 AM Ben Cart
I have lived in San Ramon for 15 years and have owned property on Lake Arenal for about 10.My lake property is in El Castillo which is on the southeast side of the lake. Its view of the lake and Volcano is unmatched and it is only 30 minutes to La Fortuna.
The volcano blocks out the westerlies which make the rest of the lake too windy. I recommend the Arenal Observatory Lodge or the Hotel Linda Vista Del Norte as places to stay in this area.
I chose San Ramon over Grecia for many reasons some of which are the following, the hospital, the University of Costa Rica, its proximity to the beach, and its great views of the Pacific Ocean.
Grecia has none of the above. Good luck with your quest.
The following articles lsited below will give you some useful information and I would encourage you to contact the veterinarian Dr. Molina who I’m sure will have people that he knows who can help you fly into Liberia instead of San Jose.
Costa Rica Pets – Veterinarian Tips on Importing Your Pets
Costa Rica Pets – Documents Required
Costa Rica Pets – Top ten pet tips to ensure a healthy, happy & stress-free trip
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comI really do wish this was a simpler topic because there would be so many more people willing to buy property in their IRAs
Unfortunately it’s not simple (you can NOT live in the home you buy in your IRA for example although you ‘may’ be able to rent it from your IRA) and the paperwork does take some time but there are experts out there who are willing to help
I would suggest that you take a look at the two articles below and contact the author Glen Mather of Entrust for more information:
Costa Rica Real Estate in Your IRA.
Costa Rica Real Estate in Your IRA – Tapping into your Personal Land Bank.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comThis type of a transaction was not covered because it was practically unheard of in Costa Rica until a couple of years ago when a few Americans started buying and selling land to people and ‘helping’ them with their payments.
They probably call it “in-house financing” do they?
I would NOT recommend this at all and unfortunately there are now dozens of ‘developers’, many of whom do not seem to have any experience ‘developing’ offering similar ‘deals’…
Why don’t we recommend this?
Please tell me! If a company like this decides to leave the country anytime within the next two years for whatever reason, what exactly will you have to show for the monies that you have been paying them all that time?
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comThe biggest DIY type store we have here was built by a group from Venezuela called EPA.
They have a massive store in Curridabat and a new one just opened in Escazu which I have (unfortunately I HATE DIY – love to cook but hate to fix/repair) visited a few times.
I can NOT find a Costa Rican website for them but their main corporate site is at
Best wishes
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comThere is no Home Depot here but believe it or not Home Depot does export/deliver to Costa Rica
From
For more information and to order a free Exporters Catalogue*, call The Home Depot International Sales Department today at (954) 922-9731 or send an e-mail to THD_Exports@homedepot.com.
Scott Oliver
Everybody you meet will be an ‘expert’ in whichever area you have a need. They are trying to be helpful and many do not fully appreciate the responsibilities that will follow…
I would encourage you to have a written legal agreement with whomever you hire – preferably their corporation but if not, with the individual as a ‘consultant’ and NOT as an employee.
This agreement should specify exactly what you expect from them and what they in turn should expect from you. Have a ‘probation’ period so that if they prove themselves ‘unqualified’ after 60 days, they KNOW that you may replace them.
Hiring them as ’employees’ has an enormously different legal connotation and unless you really like paperwork, I would stay away from that …
It may sound overblown to you but even for this fairly small matter, I would recommend you speak with a Costa Rican attorney who understands the very complex Labor Laws here.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comExcruciating pain is another “compelling reason” and tends to make treatment in a foreign country very much more urgent and appealing.
Incidentally, in Saturday’s La Nacion (page 4A) there was an article about medical tourism in Costa Rica being up 15% in 2005 versus 2004 and how the savings for foreigners from the USA are “substantial.”
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comFascinating background… I very much appreciate your insightful comments MarilynSunshine but I think we’ve come to a logical conclusion to this now …
Scott Oliver
Most attorneys would tell you not to touch property that’s not titled or, correctly titled. You could be messing about with attorneys for the next ten years trying to clear that up…
There’s plenty of land for sale in Costa Rica.
Scott Oliver
The Alta Hotel has a nice elegant restaurant. It’s located on the old road from Escazu to Santa Ana, their wood smoked giant shrimp were delicious the last time I was there…
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comThank you senta – Well spotted!
The full article can be seen at: I have no idea how long that link will remain active …
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Need an operation? Here’s
your air ticket to … IndiaBY JANE H. FURSE
DAILY NEWS WRITERDon’t look now, but that operation you’ve been putting off may be outsourced – to India.
American companies are encouraging workers to travel to India and other countries for costly medical procedures, Business Insurance magazine reports.“It saves you literally tens of thousands of dollars,” said Bonnie Blackley, benefits director at Canton, N.C.-based Blue Ridge Paper Products.
A heart valve replacement, for example, that runs between $68,000 and $198,000 in the United States costs only $18,000 in India.
Blackley said that although her company’s survival depended on keeping medical costs in check, local health care providers “offered no extra discount or anything.”
So she contracted with IndUShealth, a “medical tourism” company that specializes in arranging employee travel to accredited hospitals and board-certified physicians in India.
Because of lower labor costs, India, Thailand, Singapore, Mexico and Costa Rica could pose some stiff competition for U.S. medical providers.
“We’ve globalized every other industry. Why not health care?” said Ted Nussbaum, director of North American health care consulting at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Stamford, Conn.
But Chuck Kelley, medical director at Outrigger Enterprises Inc. in Honolulu, told the magazine it will be hard to persuade employees to travel abroad for medical care.
“Health care treatment is a very personal issue for Americans, and when they are sick, they want to be close to their family and in the care of providers they know and trust – even if they are not the best,” Kelley said. “They will settle for inferior and more expensive treatment to be home.”
Companies like Blue Ridge plan to give their employees a financial incentive to go abroad by offering to cover them and their dependents for any out-of-pocket costs.
Originally published on July 17, 2006
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Scott
Thank you for your kind comments Keith.
The internet is full of wonderful information but unfortunately, there is a lot of garbage out there too… For busy people with little free time on their hands, it is sometimes difficult trying to decide what’s good information and what’s bad.
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comIf someone reads those comments in that ‘article’ very quickly they might understand it in the same way that you did Mr. Gale however, as you have probably realized by now, that same ‘news’ source includes other sensational headlines about people like United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton & Governor George Pataki who supposedly “teamed up with suspected fraudster Jerry C. Nims whose Bermuda-based business failures have cost investors millions of dollars.”
And you will also find Senator Bob Dole mentioned as “caught up in a criminal investigation into an alleged fraud.” You might note the ever present words – ‘suspected’ and ‘alleged’. I don’t believe that Senators Bob Dole or Hillary Clinton have since been convicted of fraud.
I don’t have a problem being associated with people like Senator Bob Dole but, I am not comfortable in the same company as Senator Hillary Clinton.
I have no idea what happened to any of those banks mentioned, if anything but, I think we can all recognize the fact that if I had actually been involved in a “massive bank fraud” – incredibly serious offence – I would not be a free man today!
But I am free, as free as a bird because I was not involved and I’m loving living here in this wonderful little big country called Costa Rica.
Let us move forward and try to continue with more constructive dialogue that will benefit our VIP Members who are obviously interested in many things to do with Costa Rica real estate.
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.comWe will indeed set the record straight and you will stop saying the article was put out by “bank regulators.” It obviously was not, they are very much more carefully with their ‘allegations.’.
The article you quote from is NOT from “bank regulators”, it is from a man who writes for his own site and who had previously been thrown off the island of Bermuda for sensational reporting about different companies, my former employer included.
If you are going to quote your sources, please get the source correct.
And again, **Since I was never involved with that bank, whatever they did has absolutely nothing to do with me… **
Scott Oliver
WeLoveCostaRica.com
