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[quote=”Scott”]I really haven’t had the time to look into this carefully yet but I’ve received a couple of frantic emails from Canadians living in Costa Rica …
Their concern is that Canadian law requires expats in Costa Rica who live in Ontario to spend 153 days per year in Canada, or they will lose their health care coverage in Ontario.
Supposedly if a Canadian living in Costa Rica (or any other country) stays out of Canada for more than 212 days in each year (even though they hold a Canadian passport), they will be treated as if they are immigrants or visitors to Canada and must re-apply for health care coverage and go through a THREE MONTH waiting period for coverage.
[b]Can any of our Canadian VIP Members please confirm if this is correct? [/b]
[url=http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/publications/ohip/travel.aspx]The Canadian Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is here.[/url][/quote]
I think this has been in effect for quite some time. I remember a lot of conversation in the mid-late 90’s when the Florida condo and 2nd home market took a big hit when the Canadian buyers disappeared from the market, reportedly for precisely this reason
I’m not a “Canadian member” but I think I am remembering this accurately.
[quote=”zittizzi”]I may just buy one there to leave at our home in CR.
Thanks for your response.[/quote]You would probably be much better off buying one from a much better selection in your home town (and less expensive) and bring it down with you.
[quote=”jmcbuilder”]The last ten trips to Costa Rica, I have never been asked for anything other than a valid passport. Last trip was last month. Have a good trip.:D[/quote]
Even if you get stopped by the Transitos for a “violation”, chances are less than 1% that they will make the connection!
Come & enjoy – and don’t speed![quote=”jmcbuilder”]In fact the mso is the ownership papers. Title allows certain rights including transfer of those use rights. Tricks are played on us all the time. In the US we don’t own our cars. It reminds me of a tax break about twenty years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The tax break was written so complicated that the irs would save 5 billion dollars because most people could not take advantage of the break they would qualify for.
It depends on what your definition “it” is (Bill C). Or what the difference is between on your birth certificate all capital letters used in your name or God given with just the first letters in your name used. There is a big difference.[/quote]
jmc – this is a very interesting discussion, raising points that I had not considered previously; however, I’m not sure how paying with gold, silver, diamonds, enriched uranium, plutonium or any other “precious” substance would have changed anything.
We would still be obligated to issue the MSO in the same manner, and likewise, the buyer would be obligated to submit that MSO to the state to receive title (i.e., the “bundle of rights” associated with the buyer’s use of the vessel on the water’s of the state where registered).
What changed?
VMC –
I remember your horror stories about the conditions in Playa Negra, and sorry to hear about your personal trials.[quote=”vmc”]Wow…thanks guys….I wonder if I got MARRIED if it would help…LOL[quote=”vmc”]
VMC, I thought I remembered this on your profile, so I went back to check & see – and yep, at least that part of my brain is still working, because it is right there ….[b][i]”I am married to a wonderful girl a little younger than I, and we now have our first Grandchild…How did this happen, I was just 18 the other day?”[/i][/b]
I also recall that you don’t allow much dust to settle in your tracks – You excitedly moved from the states to Playa Negra (couldn’t wait to get there), then after a week or two you up and moved to the mountains – so have you moved on in your marital relationship as well? If not, how could you get married again?
[quote=”jmcbuilder”]You as the dealer received the MSO but it then went to the state, not the end user. Correct. Why the state collects the mso’s I don’t know why.[/quote]
Actually it was provided to the purchaser, who in turn surrendered it to the state or country where the buyer chose to register and/or title the boat.
I have no idea why the state required the MSO either, and I imagine they would be hard pressed to provide the original or even a digitized copy if required to do so.
On that same point, we were asked by dozens of customers to provide a replacement MSO for those that were lost or misplaced prior to applying for registration or title, and all we had to do was contact the importer, provide a copy of the sales receipt showing the serial number of the boat, and we received a new MSO for the customer – no questions asked!
[quote=”jmcbuilder”]David, I was referring to US assets I don’t know about Costa Rica. If you purchase a car with greenbacks you don’t own that car. The car is used as collateral for the fed. You would own that car if you purchased it with gold, but you would need to get the origin of manufacture certificate from the dealer. I’m not talking about a title. I think that would be very difficult to do. Until the Fed is fully paid off all assets bought with dollars are indeed collateral.[/quote]
In the States of Florida and Texas (and others I presume) when you buy a new boat and pay for it with cash, credit card, check or whatever, the buyer receives the “MSO” (Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin) from the dealer, but (most of the time) only after the dealer pays the manufacturer or importer (in cash, with credit card, check or funds transfer).
We owned a small boat company for 8 years, sold 100’s of boats per year, and never received or paid for anything with gold, so you can get the MSO without paying in gold!
[quote=”davidd”]anyway enough of my rant before the mods delete my posts again.[/quote]
davidd – are you saying that you have had a post deleted by a “moderator”, or that you have had posts “deleted”?
There is a difference![quote=”maravilla”]if you got all of that done, including the $700 deposit to deport you, then you got the bargain of a lifetime because in 8 years i have never heard of any person getting this job done for so little. are you sure the first $350 ea you paid wasn’t the filing fees? because normally you don’t pay the deposit to la migra until you go get your cedula — and that $700 is for a one-way ticket out of here should they decide to deport you to miami! jajaja i would ask your lawyer just so you don’t have a big surprise the day you go to la migra.[/quote]
Maravilla –
I did it all myself and from the start to receipt of “Resolution” from Migracion, we have spent:$30.00 – State of Florida (apostile of 2 documents)
$45.00 – State of Texas (apostile of 3 documents)
$240.00 – Consulate of Costa Rica, Washington D.C. (review and approval of 6 documents, the extra document being my Social Security Benefits letter)
$90.00 – mail services, including courier express delivery from the consulate to my daughter’s home near Atlanta and from her down to San Jose.
$120.00 for translation
$150.00 to a service to submit everything to Migracion. I chose to do this because I wanted to make sure it was submitted and received correctly, and apparently it was because we received our Entramite documents that same day.That is under $700 total for my wife and I. It’s not brain surgery although it may drive you crazy doing it. After looking at what really needed to be done I just decided that I didn’t need to pay a large fee to get it done.
Sure, it takes a number of hours to gather the information, but I would have had to that part even if I used a service. Same with getting things notarized, I had to be there in front of the notary because they were notarizing my signature attesting to the documents being “true and accurate” because they were “form letters with electronic signatures” on them (benefits letter, background checks, etc.)
So if you have the time and are willing to invest it, it can be done on your own.
We now have the Resolution documents and have made the deposit to CAJA, so this week we’ll make the required deposits to BCR. The little Migracion office in Nicoya has two very helpful employees that have indicated that they can arrange our “interview meeting” for us.
I’ll keep you posted!
My experience for our primary residence more with construction deals rather than maintenance. As we were building our house I was asked by our neighbor (lead guy in a group of 7 lot owners) if wanted to share in the costs of paving (concrete, 7m wide) the access road to our gated entrance (sorry Sprite!). Of course I said yes, even though several others along the way said no even though they knew thay would greatly benefit from it.
Anyway, I paid my share (over $6,000 USD) and consider it some of the best $$ I spent in the development of my property. Every time that I drive up that road, I really appreciate the opportunity that I was given to participate.I think by now it is pretty clear that everyone has a different idea of what needs to be done and has different experiences when they did it, so I would rely on your “good attorney’s” advice and follow his direction – UNLESS he/she is NOT an experienced immigration attorney.
In that case if I were you I would find another “good attorney” that does do immigration work.
I would suggest that a good attorney could find common ground for a negotiation that would be beneficial for both sides.
Obviously, the annual tax income to the municipality over “x” years will far exceed the cost of the permits. Also, if the municipality chooses to demolish the residential units, then that is an immediate, out of pocket expense that the municipality would have to initially bear although they may place a levy or lien on the property that would have to be cleared (paid) before the property could be sold or transferred, or a new permit issued for new construction – perhaps years down the road!
I just have to believe that the municipality could be made to understand that they are much better off collecting all (or even some) of the past due permit fees in addition to enjoying the ongoing income stream from property taxes.
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I hear ya Bill! For some odd reason we got moved from an 07 classification to an 09 classification even though the house doesn’t have many of the “items” listed in 09.And I agree – the reader with two houses on one deed got very poor advice.
[/quote]John – who “moved” you? It is a “self appraisal” and the owner, or the representative for the owner, determines the classification, does the measurements, details the items. etc.
