[curlyonecurlytwo]

Hi ski,

This is curlyonecurlytwo, just booked my flight to Costa Rica for Monday June 26, 2006 until Monday July 17th, 2006 via Air Canada.

You are welcome to tag along with me, for the first few days, or longer depending on…

I will initially be staying at the Hotel don Carlos, a nice 33 room intimte boutique hotel in the old historical part of San Jose, Costa Rica, near my friends office and he is also my lawyer. He is single in his mid thirties I guess, and a wonderful guy.

I am a networker, so it would be my pleasure to introduce you to him, if you are a real-grounded-spiritually in tune person who knows!? (Damn, this guy loves puns. Gotcha.). Only you know who you are.

Look up the Hotel don Carlos on the web to find out more if you cannot find it email me and I’ll send the address back to you..

After that I will be touring the Central Valley. No reservations made now, as their rainy season has begun – in otherwords slow tourist season. And rainy season is like saying snowy season in Victoria, Canada versus Winnipeg versus Toronto versus Montreal versus Gander, Newfoundland are you getting the idea .

One recommendation is you go to Tilleys Endurables, (check them out at at the main store ask for Rohenie the assistant manager to outfit you with an investment in travel clothes so you can travel light, but be as fancy dresssed as you want to be, and have fun.

Like socks that are super good and dry in no time at all, undergarments, shirts, etcetera that make travleing easy and fun, since your luggage is light, and fashionable, wrinkle free, etceteras. Boy I sound like a commercial for them, and I am not even on commission.

Anyway, if you are interested in connecting with me, try my email address

Yes, Scott we will be meeting soon. Enjoying your book and looking forward to picking up the Legal one when I am there.

Chao Chao,

Kenny

Edited on May 05, 2006 00:59

[curlyonecurlytwo]

They both may be right!? Did you speak to them in English or Spanish? Did you give them both excatly the same information – from a written script? Did you ask them the exact same questions – from a written script?

These are not flippant questions. It is a technique I have taught others, as we tend to color our approaches the more information and opinions we get.

But believe it or not, confusion is very good. That is when one arrives at enlightenmnet. It is the nature of the human condition.

Roberto’ comes from an extremely solid business background. The problem, that even Scott mentions in his 124 tips and points, or his book or both is that immigration law is a moving target in Costa Rica, even though we might think otherwise. The personality and descisions of the bureaucrats inside the governemnt may varyu from case to case.Nothing is black and white, when special situations or cases arise.

I have a friend who is a brilliant judge. One day I asked her a question, and part of the answer was one dealing with conjecture and the witnesses state at the time of being crsseaxmined. In a case, an uneducated man, who did not present himself welll at trial was accused of something he had not doen. The same facts were slanted to different ways. In the end the judge had to decide based on the credibility of the witness. It was not the content that matters, as much as their sincerity and delivery. Go figure. A world that is not black and white.

A person I know in business, whose business is seasonal, is using his established business in the country he lives in as the basis of his cash flow needs to meet government requirements. This he was told by a lawyer is possible. I don’t know what happened in the end, but he wanted to have resident status befoore the change in laws, because of a rumor about what the affect wuld be, on his chnaces under the new laws. What he was told is NOT what the new laws apparently may do!?

Good luck, with your Gordian knot of a question and solution. May the answer and positive solution appear sooner rahter than later.

Adios.

[curlyonecurlytwo]

I am going to Costa Rica for a few weeks to two months from mid-June to mid-August.

If we connect fine. I suggest you take George Lundquists weekend safari, it is probably the best thing you can do, specially if you are insecure about travelling alone. The view from his home in heaven is to die for. Oh, him and his wife may have developed a taste for ice-wines, because of my friend Lous gift for them. Hint!

I hope to say at the Hotel don Carlos the first week I am there. It is near my lawyers office, and he and I have become good friends. Roberto is a great guy, single and in his thirties I would guess. (Okay so I am an unpaid matchmaker on the side. That is wat happens when you are single. And…)

Hotel don Carlos is located in the old historical part of San Jose, and is very nice and intimate. I stayed at the Best Western Irazu last time. It is a large hotel with a fabulous whirlpool waterfalls hot tub. Loved it and made a few friends there, whom I hope to surprise when I go back and visit the area. It is a good jumping off point, but not as warm and intimate as the Hotel don Carlos, a boutique hotel.

Also stayed at the Best Western Jaco Beach, and the manager there is a super young chap, who just had his first child. Actually his wife had the child, he is the father, just in caes you were not sure what I meant.

Okay, that is it.

Gotta go. Chao Chao, Kenny

Get hold of me at

PS George has written articles for WeLoveCostaRica. He and his wife are super folks. If you connect with them send them my regards. (Ken, the crazy Canuck writer/author, who likes laughing at himself.) And tell him when I see him this summer I gaurantee I will always be on his mind from then on. (Semi-inside joke.) In case you have not guessed, I love people, and networking.

The key is smile, laugh, and remember your journey is the garden for your soul!

[curlyonecurlytwo]

Hi,

My name is Ken. I have my temporary CR immigration number, and my papers are in San Jose. Started this process the first week of March, and my papers were in San Jose, by mid-April.

I dealt with Carmen, the Vice-Consul at the Toronto Consulate and Lina the Consul General from the Embassy in Ottawa, because I had an unusual request. They are fabulous people. Tell them I said so.

They really respect and like the lawyer, Roberto, whom I use. Considering this is the first lawyer I think they would both recommend, in San Jose, CR, ask them. Carmen is here 3 years. Lina 8 years. So that really says something.

Only if you are a nice person, tell Roberto the crazy Canuck writer/author sent you. And I mean nice! Respectful. And fun!!!!

Treat Carmen and Lina with the utmost of respect, they have very demanding jobs, and once everything is in San Jose at the imigration ministry, it is out of their hands. They are no longer involved. Also send them my regards only if you are a nice person.

I too am single. And in another posting I kidded Scott about setting up a Singles Were Are New to Costa Rica thread. There is a Canadian Club in San Jose.

I will be there for a few weeks to two months between June 15th to August 15th, staying the first week only in San Jose.

So if you want to connect, get hold of me… eeerrrr, no hugging we don’t know each other well enough, yet.

Have fun. Chao Chao
Ken at

Applications for potential friendships being taken at that address. You must come equipped with a sense of humor and a smile!
I am 54, single/divorced, with lots of natural long curly hair, two great grown kids, and hope to move down there the sooner the better. Age is irrelevant, in terms of friendship, as is marital status, sexual orientation and all the other anal stuff of North American Western Societies. I am 110% heterosexual. (Okay, so I would or would not be a good accountant. I guess it depends on your orientation.) Sorry folks, I love puns. They are prune juice for my mind, body and soul.

All that matters is ones spirit!

Edited on May 03, 2006 02:02

[curlyonecurlytwo]

Ask Scott Oliver. I deal with Roberto, in San Jose. He is fantastic for me. But again each individual has their own quirks and needs. A lawyer good for one, may not be suitable for another. 3 Lawyers you have tried already indicates something. What I do not know.

Email Scott with a simple direct question. Minimal info and direct request. Scott may know the best lawyer for your specific needs.

I started my process March 2006, and because I follow up, and am very diligent, my immigration papers are already in San Jose. I now have a temporary CR immigration number as of two 1/2 weeks ago, mid-April. Focus. Clarity. Listening to what I was being told. Doing my homework on the consulate web-site for my area. And doing it exactly as requested, means I am on the right path.

Now it is up to the immigration folks in Costa Rica as too how long I will have to wait, to get my final papers. This is where the right lawyer is very important. Make sure you have one who is responsive to your needs. But if you want them to educate you, understand time to them is money, and high maintainence clients should pay through the nose, becasue why should the easy ones have to subsidize the high maintainence ones, who take a lot of the lawyers time up with educating them, and can be very draining. Also make sure you do not waste their time, with babble.

I have had clients who I have had to turn away because they wanted too much of my time and were too draining, and not willing to get the years of education I have, to be able to do what I do. On the other hand, I had a lawyer pay me what he thought was an exhorbitant fee, for one hour of my time. Another lawyer told him I knew what no one else knew and was the expert in the specific area of his incompentence, or as one might say lack of knowledge.

Being direct, egoless and not taking anything personally on my part, in as many matters as is possible, is what makes this process so much fun and it is so easy.

Good luck. Bueno sertes. Chao. Chao.

[curlyonecurlytwo]

Best deal I found so far, was on the Air Canada web site and this was off season travel – around $650 to $700. I plan to be in San Jose within the next few months. Relocating there permanenetly within the year.

If you found better airfares from Toronto, please keep us posted. Travel tips that save $’s appreciated. Also need Costa Rica air fare saver ideas to Dorval Airport in Montreal so I visit my Mom and sample the food.
Chao Chao Kenny

[curlyonecurlytwo]

Hola Scott,

Yes. Roberto Umana and George the gentleman who sent me to him are two very fine folks. The universe is very kind to me. The connection to George and then Roberto was made within 2 days of arriving in Costa Rica.

Chao Chao, Kenny

Edited on Apr 25, 2006 23:47

[curlyonecurlytwo]

Hola Scott,

Should I really bother with buying new appliances here and shipping them, rather than buying them in Costa Rica?

Are the savings that great?

I plan to buy an apartment, very soon, before I move down permanently.

Any web-sites of wholesalers, retailers or ways and means to get the best VALUE, notice I did not say price, but value – they deliver what you buy idea, and… Well I hope I have asked clearly enough, to meet my needs. I am very lazy and have become an armchair self-educator with the net, doing as much homework as is reasonable and possible.

I guess there are many places that offer what I need in terms of good quality appliances, and I would assume they do not all have web-sites in English or even have a web-site.

So a list of those appliance retailers/wholesalers in or around San Jose, might be very helpful to everyone.

Also a good reason for them to advertise on your excellent site.

Chao Chao, Kenny

Edited on Apr 25, 2006 12:19

[curlyonecurlytwo]

My 20 year old daughter will be travelling to Europe this summer. Possibly alone. When this article is posted PLEASE make sure it is PROMINENTLY promoted so I may pass it onto her. I also siged up to be kept informed of any posting to this thread.

She may also go to Israel, and other Middle Eastern countries, which really concerns me at this point. But hey she is 20, beautiful, independent and stubborn!!! I would not want her to be any other way than the ways she is. I just want her to come home safely, before I move to Costa Rica. ¡fo! Phew!

Gracias. Concerned Daddy,who has been there and done that. Now I know why they say your children are your parents best revenge.

Scott, your web-site and these forums are great.

I am REALLY looking forward to getting your Ultimate Information package and the free CD about the apartment real estate project.

Don’t take this personally, but your web-site and the weekly newsletters are causing me to have a Pavlovian response.

I salivate everytime I see SCOTT OLIVER and a WeLoveCostaRica newsletter in my emiail inbox.

Keep uP the good work!

Chao Caho, Ken

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