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[quote=”costaricafinca”]When you make the scouting trip, I would advise to check out the availability of rental properties until you decide.
If you are intending to apply for a residency status you should get your paperwork in order, as the financial requirements are changing in March.
pushing a wheelchair or even using s motorized one can cause ‘major headaches’…and pain in the ‘butt![/quote]

Thanks.

1) Renting is the plan. I just wanted to narrow down the initial search area.
2) I read about $60k going to $120k. Can this money, once deposited be used to buy a house?
3) I would have guessed about ease of movement with a chair. As long as vehicle rides to medical and entertainment facilities is doable, that will work.

Apprish on the info

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Thanks Tomasino,

Pictures are worth…………………..

Jelly

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Thanks for the information Lotus.

I’ve seen places in Fla that do pretty much the same thing. You buy in and a monthly fee takes you to ever increasing levels of care until you reach the basement where the permanent hospital is. 20 years ago it cost $60k to be there but the facility was huge and average life expectancies made it work for the owners.

I’m not sure I’d want to live in a place where the motivation to “churn” patients would be so lucrative.

Jelly

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What????????? x 2

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Scott,

*****warning, social commentary coming….Hahahaha**************

I live in one of the most expensive places in the US, a beach town, where we’ve seen people with more money than sense, drive up prices to point that locals can no longer live here.

I have participated in the escalation of real estate but it really bothers me that it takes at least a 6 figure income to buy a house nowadays.

Greed is a big reason I’m moving. To the extent that housing both here and now, apparently in CR, is marketed as an investment instead of a staple of life, gives me pause. Market forces themselves will provide a good return as long as the draw to be part of a different and, in many ways, a better lifestyle remains. I don’t see trading one rat race for another to be at all satisfying.

Progress has to be made, no doubt. Building developments without the infrastructure to go with them is lunacy and points to money as the only reason they get proposed. Asking for unreasonable profits from a property that has become untenable for some reason (the 40% who return home) can also be a pipe dream.

If I’m misreading the demand then I’ll gladly eat my words. I simply want a place to rest my heart and soul.

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Thanks to Tomasino and Lotus.

Scott: I think you’ve nailed it. Residences like those at the prices they want are good if there is no one around to support the person in need or they are “thrown away” by the family. I only want to know that such facilities exist. Why wouldn’t you create a virtual care home in place, if it could be done for less and with love.

I have remodeled our home to perfection for my wife but would go broke pretty fast if we had to pay $10k / month for 24 hour care.

It seems like all the reasons we would move to CR are, in fact, valid.

Jelly

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That’s good to know. About everything. I’ve been looking at the links…….Thanks

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Wow…….wow………wow

Very nice! Thanks

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Thanks Scott,

I actually just found a number of $1,500 US for a nursing home in CR, which is 1/4 the US cost but more importantly, the quality in the US is dismal unless you are able to find an small, intimate facility at twice the cost. This points to the real problem: there are few beds anywhere I’ve looked at any cost.

Affordable home care is the way to go.

Taxis are available of course, but it will be much easier if she can stay in her chair somehow instead of being moved to the vehicle seat.

Sounds like a great place to ride. I’ll probably get a dual-sport considering the roads. I had a Valkyrie and now ride a sport-tourer.

My focus for housing will be that all living for us be on a single floor at street level, with 3,000 or more sf and a view is a must. There must be room for her current caregiver who will come with us. She can be on a second floor or not. I do not care for the ostentatious display of wealth so those $1,000,000 houses are out. I will be looking in the $100,000 to $400,000 range. If you have something you know about, let me know. I be there during the last week of July, 07.

Note: Scott, I just sent you an email about losing this. I guess I found it again..LOL

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