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David,
Thanks for your, as always, helpful reply, The “new” 2004/05 vehicle was a typing error – we might have an opportunity to purchase a used 2004 or 2005 Isuzu diesel pickup from a friend that is going to trade it in on a bigger one and just wondered if someone could give me an idea of its value.
I appreciate the info on the Terracan, I understand this is its’ last year of production and it is now being replaced with the “SantaFe”, which has a $32 to $40,000 sticker price here in the US which might take it out of the range that we want to spend.
Just how bad is the insurance and “marchamo”? Is the marchamo a % of the current value of the vehicle?
Ruth
Alvaro-
You evidently are a better man than I – tried all the usual google and yahoo searches using every combination of words I could think of and the closest I got was a phone number for the San Jose office. Thanks for your assistance.
RuthThe French press is a great idea – no electricity for this trip (only 10 days) when we move down in September will get a generator if ICE can’t provide us with power. Candle light & lamps, battery powered music & Costa Rican nights – who needs electricity!
It was never intended to be racist – the idea of 12,000,000 people from ANYWHERE moving to Costa Rica is scary!
Love Paraguay as my second home but unless things have changed a great deal, don’t think even they will be too bothered with the Chaco Paraguayo – you will be safe there!
I realize you are right, can’t do the Mr. Coffee thing because we will have no electricity and frankly while I agree the Costa Rican Choreador makes wonderful coffee, I don’t always have the patience to wait for it to drip through (especially first thing in the morning!)
Thanks for the imput.
Scott –
1) received the map, IT IS GREAT! Far better than anything I have found so far and we have quite a collection.2) I know lehmans well, but didn’t want to do the whole shipping & customs thing. We are comming down next week for 10 days and will be camping out in our almost finished house but have no idea when electricity (could be days. months, years??) will be available – have used kerosene powered fridges in the past and while I don’t love them, they do work. Will keep an eye out in our travels, if I find something useful I will let you know.
Ruth
Rita,
We are just completing a small house at Aguacate on the opposite side of the lake. While we haven’t seen it since it was started (do have photos) feel that he price was reasonable. We have seen other jobs that Minor (our contractor) has completed so feel confident he will have done a good job for us. I don’t have a phone number for him but if you get in touch with Jim & Rene at Rico Realty at cinco esquinas, they can tell you how to get in touch with Minor and Jim can recommend a good architect. Also have seen the work that Willeke & Kees had done at their B&B in Tronadora (B&B Monte Terras), their contractor did a good job and they were very pleased.
Good luck,
RuthTerry,
Did someone from La Suiza get in touch with you about accommendations? Suggest you have a look at the north end of Lake Arenal and out toward Tenorio & Miravalle Volcanos – our experience is that there are almost no mosquitos at the higher elevations. (The wind probably blows them away!). If you don’t mind being a little off the beaten track there is an area around Ricon de la Vieja called Nueva Zelandia that is just beautiful.
Ruth
Have read somewhere that there is a largeish French Canadian settlement between Dominical and the Panama border, cannot remember however where I saw that information, might have been on the ARCR forum.
Lawchik-
You go for it girl! Depending upon where you decide to buy and if you find a reliable (probably one recommended by Scott, although there are others out there) real estate agent they will probably either check on you property for you or know someone reliable who will do so for a small fee. This should prevent any problems with squatters. Have fun with it.
Best of luck.
RuthIn 2003 we decided we were going to retire to Costa Rica and came back and set things in motion, while we got our California properties sold and the money became available (which did not happen until 2005) we watched the type of property we really wanted (a 100+ hectare cattle ranch) being priced out of our range.
Last year we purchased two smaller properties as investments, we are now building a temporary house on one of them and have the other up for sale. The idea is that at the very least the property we have is appreciating at the same rate as other properties in the area. I would buy now, even if it isn’t you final location.Good luck,
Ruth
Sorry for the delay in replying – the area is basically cattle country, both dairy & beef. Down on the lowlands between Canas and Liberia along the Pan American Highway a lot of rice is grown, but there are no main crops grown in the hills around the lake.
Prices in the area are all over the place, they have gone up a lot in the past two to three years because new developments are going in around the lake. We have two properties one close to the lake with a lake view at $3.50/sq. meter ($15,500/acre) and another about 40 minutes out of Tilaran with a view of Tenorio Volcano at $1.20/sq. meter($4,444 per acre). Lakeside properties are considerably more.
Hope this helps.
Ruth
David & Scott,
Somehow I missed your posts until today – the 31st. I really appreciate the imput and will put it to good use – Mauricio sounds perfect and since we speak excellent Panspanglish (that’s Paraguyan spanish mixed with Southern Californian mexican-american english/spanish), I am sure we can get along.
Thanks again, you both always come through for us.
Ruth
