http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf76qGmVZw8
I’m not the cyber guru that Ramiro is and i could not figure out how to get this video to open on this page but I believe that if you cut and paste the link into your browser it should work. This video portrays the directions one would get and how an expat would interpret [...]
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You might have already seen the news in the states or maybe you read the paper online like I do, or you were there when the big one hit. Whichever of these you fall under, Thursday was a very memorable day in Costa Rica.
There was an incredibly strong (6.2) earthquake that made the world shake [...]
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Two to three times a year we pick up the paper or read online that another fugitive has been captured in Costa Rica. The last bad guy was picked up in Playa Garza last month. This one was a convicted child molester.
Tom Noel Mastin is the latest of several fugitives that have made their home [...]
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The Gringo never even saw it coming
The legal right to steal: A valid power of attorney
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
A U.S. citizen returned to Costa Rica in February 2003 to find his lawyers living in his Pacific coast villa. They had taken all his possessions and burned them to complete the takeover.
A [...]
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IRS Winning friends among local bank officials!
The sign of things to come: Banco Cuscatlan now requires citizens or resident aliens of the United States to fill out a W9 form for personal accounts at the firm’s banks in Costa Rica.
Why? Because Citigroup bought Grupo Cuscatlan from Corporación UBC Internacional S.A. for $1.51 billion in cash [...]
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World Pet Travel/Guardian Angels CR and many other pet transporters have encountered problems recently with people contacting us and asking for help with their international moves for their pets.
Just this week Frank and Susana Wheeler from London England, new to Costa Rica, refused to pay for the services that they requested that I have been [...]
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Let the seller beware!!! Do NOT EVERY list your property for sale with a Realtor under an exclusive listing. There is no MLS system in Costa Rica contrary to what your Realtor may try to tell you there is not and never has been. Some Realtors work together and combine their listing but that is [...]
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A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. This sign was posted in a restaurant in Limon. And for those of you that don’t speak Spanish, it basically says, “No smoking Marijuana in this establishment” I can think of a few dozen other places that could use a sign like this.
Maybe I should start a [...]
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Beware of bad information in books and on websites as it is abundant. There are several people in Costa Rica that will give you out of date or incorrect information about all sorts of things related to your move to Costa Rica.
One example is ARCR, if you are a member, you are paying them for [...]
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Over the last several weeks there have been several people, mostly Americans that have been deported for living and working in Costa Rica illegally.
The most recent was a woman working in Guanacaste as a realtor living here under a tourist visa. She was kicked out of Costa Rica and will not be allowed to return [...]
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