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Will do, pal, That is why I got on this site. Fact is though, you don’t know me well enough to make predictions about my future or capabilities. You don’t know me at all. To give you a synopsis, re my vitae: I am a former very successful treasure hunter. We (Treasure Salvers Inc. found a Spanish ship sunk in 1622 and found in 1988. That was 10 years of hardship and 5 lives lost.
I later lived 4 years in small villages in Vietnam when few tourists were allowed into the country. The list goes on and on. I am one of the very few survivors of such ventures. I survived MUCH worse conditions than here. I will easily last in Costa Rica, unless I just get tired of it.
Your response completely avoids a simple question. Please do not lecture me on “cultural differences” since I have lived in multiple cultures. Your response is vacuous, naive and avoids quintessentially easy question. It burdens the original interrogative with vastly unrelated topics.
No “sorry” necessary Scott, I agree completely. As originator of this discussion I hate to say it but I have gotten a few comments that “trust” is necessary in CR. I say B.S to those remarks. They beg into relating to cultural differences. In the USA, for instance, do immigrants, especially illegal ones defer to the “It is their country?” political stance. Of course not. They congregate in language related communities and make demands for change. So,, we should not follow their lead? Having said that, I think all those who recommend relying on cash up front because of the cultural differences are among the most naive people I have heard from. Business=agreement, trust is reserved for love and friendship.
Hi People, I’m glad to be a part of this forum and group. I may have worded my question a bit awkwardly since the responses have been in reference to various topics not directly related to my central question: I am concerned about an attorney I have retained to complete my purchase of an expensive condo. At first he said he would take a check. Then I got an e-mail from him to the effect that I should destroy the check due to problems with his using the check. We had a meeting and he said he only does business using cash for payments. We are talking about circa $1,000 down and another $6,000 upon completion of the transaction. I asked the forum if this sounded like a viable way to run a business. I am fortunate to have maneuvered my self into the status of a multimillionaire. I got several posts about my responsibility of selecting who I TRUST to do business with. My retort that is that I do not nor have I ever based my business transactions on trust. In my humble opinion only a fool does that. Many of those fools are broke.
I might add that I am all too often asked by other professional services to pay in cash, e.g. a Los Suenos Doctor’s office. OK, how long can one pay in cash? It depends on how much they have brought into the country. The limitation is $10.000. If that runs out, there is virtually no way to get money from the US to YOURSELF in Costa Rica unless you have a bank account here, and you cannot have that until you have a residency permit. It is a bureaucratic catch 22. My days of spending cash for large transactions are over folks. People I know and love have my TRUST. Business people or professionals have neither my trust nor CASH.
