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  Turning Your Dreams into Reality in Costa Rica

  Anyone can sell real estate by putting up a website and posting listing but I believe that something is to be said for firms that have been ...

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  Look To Europe For America’s Future

  President Franklin Roosevelt responded by banning private ownership of gold and silver and imposing a "Wealth Tax," boosting the tax rate ...

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  Building Costs in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica

  Our house was built to schedule because we had a motivated crew whot knew what that were doing. Although our builder was from Colorado I ...

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  Living in Costa Rica – Our visa run to Granada, Nicaragua by bus.

  Our arrival presented a new problem -- how to pay for a taxi when we had no Nicaraguan money (cordobas). The driver took us to an ATM, but ...

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  San Isidro Labrador’s Parish Church. American artist Scott K. Wimer investigates…

  San Isidro Labrador Parish is a structure of formal aspect of Neo Gothic style, a copy of late French Gothic. It is called "neo" because it ...

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  How Did I End Up Living In Grecia, Costa Rica?

  My name is Jeanetta Taylor Owens, born in Omaha, Nebraska a bunch of years ago. My husband, Charles, was a military man and he had been ...

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  Building Your New Home on the South Pacific – How to pick a builder

  Before you even start looking for a builder you need to know how much your home is going to cost to build. This requires a lot of ...

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  Chasing Your Dream. How we started our own vacation rentals business in Costa Rica.

  Like many people, our first trip to Costa Rica was for a vacation. It's a big world; we figured we'd make one visit, cross it off our ...

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  Taxes in Costa Rica… Are like rivers they “flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full…To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again”. (Ecclesiastes 1:7)

  As most of you should know by now (I hope), President's Chinchilla administration has proposed some new tax laws. The most ambitious was ...

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  SOLD-Two Affordable Grecia Homes For Sale For Only US$150K. Live in one and rent out the other one.

  This property features two different units that can be sold together or separate. The total lot size is 200 m2 and the top home offers just ...

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