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Even at $1,486/month like vbcruiser, if house is paid or not, is a bargain!!! You could not live in Puget Sound for the equivalent lifestyle for a bare minimum of $5,000/month w/ a 50+ mile RT commute. $110 for health insurance….I wish!! My company (am part owner) pays $800 for myself & spouse @ age 44/37. Independently it would cost $1,200/month. A semi-serious abdominal surgery is $50-$80,000 now + $1,000/day hospital!! No wonder medical tourism is so big. Assisted living complexes in CR shuld become a huge business.
Have it delivered to a friend or co-worker and sent DHL, Fed-Ex or UPS to their San Jose area office for pick-up by you. Person to person and no taxes.
Beware of the road to ethanol. Pure ethanol is what funny cars @ the drag strip run off of and burns extremely hot, much hotter than gasoline. This leads to a shorter engine life. It does burn cleaner, but it uses many food crops to make. Brazil is self-sufficient on sugar cane, but cane takes lots of land, which is not available on that scale in CR. Any grain can be used, but there is a rice shortage already. Palm oil can be used for bio-diesel, but do you want the enitre coast to look like between Quepos and Jaco or Manuel Antonio to Dominical? The only non-impactive material to use would be biowaste – all the peels, rinds and shells from all the fruit and vegetabes consumed. Make a fuel out if it, keep it out of the landfill. There is a power plant in Spokane, Washington than runs off biowaste.
Flex fuel is 85/15, but it will become a more genenric term. VW’s and older Mercedes diesels will run on straight vegetable oil ($600 pre-heat kit). The original Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil so farmers could be self sufficient and independent of kerosene or petroleum.In agreement whole heartedly! It is amazing how many property owners can’t produce a Plano or even let you survey at your own costs before puting down any money.
As far as construction, I am a commercial specialty subcontractor owner and an architect. Starting with the right agreements/contracts tied to time periods and performance or they don’t get paid is very beneficial. It is a simple concept to sell, you do your job when you say you get paid, if not we have a probleme and I will hire someone else. Also have termination clauses that limit their payment to the % complete + a max. OH&P margin. 22 years in business and I have been on both sides of contracts so I tend to favor the fairest such as the AIA or AGC.As apposed to here where they limit lot coverage with impermeable surface (drives, concrete roofs & decks included to 40% max. For a typical 900 m2 lot that is still nearly 4,000 SF of footprint!. For a 1 HA piece that = 43,000 SF, which would allow farms or stables. I live on a 5A (2 HA) piece, as do my neighbors and here are few homes over 4,000 SF. I would build in phases with separate permits and avoid the limitation.
Buccanero isa CR rum distilled in Escazu. All of CR’s exotic fruits make incredible drinks and completely mask the alcohol, which make them easy to over consume!
Depends on your persepctive. The Quepos marina is/will be very successful, but Quepos is bigger the P.V. The marina in Q is built by a firm from Bellingham, WA with a state of th art pier and anchor system. It will change P.V. in terms of bringing more people, especially yachtsmen. Could create a nice higher end waterfront community, but the downside is the dreaded multi-story complex. If they keep in low scale similar to the Emerald Coast in Florida’s panhandle (Seaside, Rosemary Beach, Watercolor), it can work. Your land values will go up, but so will the crime element. Overall, the local economy would benefit, but the impact to the snorkeling/sea life is a huge concern. There is always an up and down side, so it is up to the local community to participate, whether to exert influence or fight it all together. A responsible developer will involve the community.
This is potential interesting news and a good idea if the local municipality gets the resources. Still a huge house @ 500m2. The cut-off for architect designed drawings here in WA is 4,000 SF or 382m2 but all permit applications are handled at the local level, unless a body of water or wetland is affected, then the state steps in for an EIS. Hopefully they will treat phased attached living/multi-occupant units, including multiple casitas (3 o more) on one parcel of property the same as commercial projects. CRBuilder might know about this.
The best dog foods in he US ae the ones recommended and sold at cost by your veterinarian. We feed our 3 Natural Balance Duck & Potato, which is hypoallergenic. Another good hypoallegrneic brand is Flint River Ranch baked kibble. Most of the best dog foods are lamb, duck, venison, trout or salmon based, all of which have hypoallergenic properties. The potato or sweet potato that is used as a natural filler aids is a simple carb with vitamins that aids in digestion. Wild canines eat grass to aid in digestion. I disagree with the cooked meat slam, for salmon is excellent for dogs, but can never be eaten raw. NO SUSHI FOR DOGS!!! Cooked fish in general is extremely healthy for dogs as it is for humans with omeaga 3 oils, high protein, low fat and low cholesterol.
I have lived in Tripoli, Cairo, Denver, Phoenix, Anchorage, Seattle and visited every major city between Saettle to Cleveland to Miami to San Diego. I have felt the least safe in downtown Miami/Little Haiti and New Orleans south an east of the Quarter, but the only crime I have personally experienced was in my own neighborhood appox. 50 miles N of Seattle (burglary). The only violent crime I have witnessed was in the Mission District of San Francisco (awakened by a SWAT team on the roof below my hotel for multi-hostage/murder situation in 1986)and downtown Denver (shooting seen from office buidingin 1983) @ 2:00 a.m.. I have never been concerned for my safety in any way in Costa Rica, nor have I ever experienced crime, but I also have excellent situational awareness.
To add to postalx, has anyone heard of HughesNet coming to the area anytime soon, specifically Montezuma? We live 1-hour north of Seattle and recently got HughesNet since there is nothing else available out here in the “sticks” but dial-up. As a future resident and business owner in CR, fast internet access to me means something faster than DSL.
I am far from naive, but surrounded by the naive. I have lived on 3 continents during my lifetime from the extremes of north Africa to the extremes of Alaska and all places between. I have lived an international life, was raised as an “oil brat”, have a foreign mother and speak three languages, which makes my exposre to the world much more diverse than the “average joe” american. It would take a thesis to explain what I believe is wrong with the US, besides the obsession with power, greed and “we know btter than you” attitude. Our government is broken on all levels, right down to the local school districts and their idiotic, lack of common sense policies which trump actual education (3 children).
My list is long, but the list of where I want to live the 2nd half of my life and escape the daily inane insanity is between Panama & Nicaragua, while my current country still alows me to do so.It only takes 50.1% of the population to elect a President, especially if the electorate is in your back pocket. GWB was elected by the religious right/silent majority. I am one that belives a minimum IQ, fluency in the predominant language of the country and the same knowledge of US civics/politics required to be a citizen should be required to be able to vote.
The exact location I believe is Playa Bejuco and it was 410 acres +/-. Giselle Bundchen has a place near Mal Pais and there are several celebrities that live in the Montezuma area.
vb is right. You can oprn an account at one of the international banks like Scotia or HSBC or Barclay’s and have access to your $ in CR. If you really want to know the legalities of residency, business practices, criminal law etc., I recommend buying Legal Guide to Costa Rica that is advertised on this site. It is extremely useful.
Many S.A.’s have two accounts, one in dollars and one in colones. Transers between the two is always subject to the current exchange rate. The dollar has been falling against the colon over the last year, but in the last 10 days it has gone up. Ticotimes.net always has the current exchange rate.
