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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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  Costa Rica People – How To Communicate with the Ticos

  On many occasions, I have been engaged in conversation with a Costa Rican friend or acquaintance when a very basic conversational miscue ...

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