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Two days are totally adequate. That will give you plenty of time to see these areas.
I would like to suggest that you find a competent person to give you a tour of these areas and show you those amenities and the towns.
There is a place I like to stay near Naranjo, with great rooms, a thatched roof bar and a good place to eat. It is the Rancho Mirador along the highway, just West of Naranjo. If you don’t have a place to stay, I have a great place in San Ramon, La Posada. I have yet to find a great place in Grecia.
Let me know if you have questions or need contact information.
Much warmer weather, elevation, bugs and prices of real property are a concern for the Quepos/Jaco/Parrita/Manuel Antonio. South of Quepos the roads are horrendous, until you reach Dominical. There is a real decent road from Atenas/San Ramon to that area, which is to be rebuilt to a much better rood.
Pura Vida and Cheers
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 27, 2006 15:14
My goodness Mustardgirl. You have a lot of questions to answer.
COST IS ALL AREAS ARE DEPENDANT ON MANY FACTORS: VIEWS, ACCESSIBILITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, WATER AND ELECTRICITY.
Atenas is the most expensive
Grecia falls next in line
San Ramon area is the lowest, but is starting to increase in value.CLIMATE VARIES GREATLY AMONG THE THREE.
Grecia has more humidity increasing warmth
San Ramon center is about 3,000 elevation and cooler
Atenas is a drier climate.
You will need to visit all of these areas during different times of the year to see the various climate changes.AMERICANS
Grecia has the highest concentration of USA citizens
Atenas fall at second for USA citizens
San Ramon has the lowest of all threeSERVICES AVAILABLE
San Ramon is probably on top of the list with a hospital, University, movie theatre, bi-lingual school, shopping mall and most of the Costa Rican banks
Grecia is right behind, but no mall or university or larger hospital that I know about. Traffic in town center can be terrible, especially during cane harvest with the big tractor trailer units traveling right next to Parque Central.
Atenas will be a quieter town, but still on a major road to Jaco. No mall, university or major hospital that I know of…You really need to visit these areas and include Naranjo and Palmares in your search. These are all nice areas.
I prefer the San Ramon area.
Pura Vida
Bill MaesTwo legged deer huntin’. (Redneck slang spellinng I think)
I don’t know how the men get away with this cultural anomaly. There are several friends I have that I am friends with their spouses. There have been many occasions that these men do plan trips to circumvent the marital obligation and go huntin’.
It is a very difficult thing to understand. These wonderful spouses never say a word.
– Do you think they suspect or know?
– Turn a blind eye?
– Know what is going on and don’t care?
– Where taught from birth that this is okay?Scott Benson… What does your wife know and think about this extracurricular activity for Ticos (Gringos)?
Cheers
Bill MaesRico will meet you at the airport, when you walk out of the terminal.
I have rented many times in the past, until I received my own ICE number with my Unlocked T-Mobile phone:
http://cellulartelephonerentals.com/
Never, ever a problem with Rico and his company.
Tell him I sent you and he will scratch his head and say who… He would remember my face.
Cheers
Bill MaesI have not found a way to setup a cell phone while you are out of Costa Rica, unless you have a friend in Costa Rica set it up for you. That Costa Rican friend will need to have a cedula and a water or electricity bill to get a phone.
Most of the information that you will need is in this thread:
https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=674#4746
Ask any questions.
Pura Vida
Bill MaesThis is something you need to ask your abogado in Costa Rica.
It also depends on how the property is held and how you structure the contract.
It is recommended that the two parties, to a real property sale, have seperate abagados. These two can design a contract that will work for both parties and be iron clad for both.
Pura Vida
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 26, 2006 09:09
See my e-mail and do what you must.
I am not full of anything except honest and fair dealings. Reporting only what I know as truths. Alerting your guests and my friends to what I believe and know as the best for them and everyone.
Sincerely
Bill MaesPORTION DELETED BY BILL MAES
Pura Vida
Bill Maes1) Don’t pay anything upfront for a deposit or rental. If the company can’t work this way, I suggest going to different rental agency. Any reputable company would use your card to hold the vehicle and you would be able to cancel when needed.
2) If you don’t like the vehicle when the drop is made, DON’T PAY.
3) Have a contingent rental company available. For a few dollars more you will have peace of mind and a reliable vehicle. There are many rental agencies in the area that would love to rent a vehicle to you.
Pura Vida
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 25, 2006 16:48
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Jose:
Well put Jose. I advise this same way.
Go ahead and rent from whomever and make your own decision. Any percentage of disgruntled customers gives me reason to find another company to give my business. Customers are earned with reputation, clients return and refferals with good support and product.
1) Don’t pay anything upfront for a deposit or rental. If a company can’t work this way, I suggest going to different rental agency. Any reputable company would use your card to hold the vehicle and you would be able to cancel when needed.
2) If you don’t like the vehicle when the drop is made, DON’T PAY.
3) Have a contingent rental company available. For a few dollars more you will have peace of mind and a reliable vehicle.There are many rental agencies in the area that would love to rent a vehicle to you.
Jose, I am happy you have returned from your “European Vacation”.
I will see you the 11th October 2006.
Cheers
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 25, 2006 16:51
If you don’t have the property in the corporation name, then I would move on and start another corporation to place the property into…
With the slow court system in Costa Rica, it could be a very long time and a lot of money to persue the vagrant abagado.
Cut your loses and find another lawyer to get a new corporation.
Read this article from AMCostaRica about corporations:
A clever clause can dodge the probate mess
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa RicaNow there is a new way to duck messy probate in Costa Rica.
Thanks to an avid reader with a ton of patience, a limited liability company called an S.R.L. in Costa Rica, is now even a better vehicle for holding assets and succession planning. Most professional people do not know this secret.
Limited Liability companies are great for holding properties and manging businesses, but if there is only one manager and the manger is taken by death, a long legal struggle can take place.
If there are multiple managers, the liability company runs the risk of internal confusion and sometimes theft.
Technically, S.R.L. stands for Sociedad de Responsiblidad Limitada in Spanish. An S.R.L. is equivalent to an L.L.C., which stands for limited liability company in other parts of the world.
Two or more people form the business structure and hold shares in the organization. One person usually manages the company, but there can be more than one, many in fact. There is no limit to the number of managers a limited liability company can have.
As flexible as a limited liability company is, if there is only one manager, his or her absence, as in death, would freeze everything in the company until there was a shareholders meeting. In many cases the manager is the majority shareholder further complicating matters.
If the limited liability company has more than one manager, too many bosses tend to mess things up as a rule. More importantly, one of the managers could go wild and sell off all the assets of others. It happens.
In succession planning, some parents make their offspring managers and create the same problem. The kids go nuts and sell off all the assets of the parents.
Now it is possible to make the second and subsequent managers’ positions conditional based on succession.
The secret is simple but it took the Registro Nacional more than three months to approve the language. It goes this way:
In the constitution of the limited liability company in the clause outlining management there are two parts. One is listing the managers and the other is outlining their powers in the company.
One seeking to use this trick should list all the managers in this section giving them all the same power to manage the business affairs of the entity. However, after this is written, at the end of the clause, one should add a section stating that if the first manager is not available or incapacitated that is when the second manager can take the place of the first not before. The same can be true for a third manager. If the second is unavailable, the third can take the place of the second.
Actually, the end of the clause on managers can be flexible. Another option would be to have manager two and three act jointly in the absence of the first.
In the clause, it is important not to mention death. The Registro Nacional at one time accepted the word death as part of the clause but will no longer do so. That’s why it rejected the setup of a limited liability company for the avid reader, who wanted to pass on assets to a third party in case of death. Fortunately, the reader was able to wait three months while this new concept of managerial sucession got approved by the technicians at the Registro.
The essence of the legal language is to substitute not replace someone in the management position. However, this works perfectly in the case of death avoiding probate in the same step.
For example, Pete has a property in Costa Rica and puts it in an limited liability company making himself the manager. Pete with foresight makes his son Pete Jr. a manager in his permanent absence or disability.
Pete dies. Pete Jr., as manager, can move any assets in the limited liability company to another one that he controls and does not have to go through probate to do so.
Probate is a thing to avoid in Costa Rica, much like it is in other parts of the world. Usually, it is a long road filled with legal potholes. Big ones.
It is possible to setup sociedad anonimas or S.A.s, a legal structure like a corporation, in a similar fashion, but it is much more difficult because S.A.s always have a president, a secretary, a treasurer and a fiscal. They are a more complex type of an organization usually answering to stockholders.
Cheers
Bill MaesPORTIONS DELETED BY BILL MAES
My heart goes out to you and your wife.
Renter Beware…
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 25, 2006 16:49
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Pura Vida
Bill MaesTry these rental cpmpanies:
http://www.crtropicalrentacar.com (I rent from them when needed and their rates are negotiable and reasonable. Turn the volumn down)
http://www.servicecarrental.com/
http://www.economyrentacar.com/DefaultFlash.aspx
http://www.unique-travels.com/index.html
http://www.puravidacars.com/ (US$84 more a week for a much larger and safer Galloper is a no brainer)Happy renting, but not from Dean.
Cheers
Bill MaesEdited on Sep 25, 2006 16:45
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