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This single story home (1506 sf. + parking for one car) is detached, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, home office, living room wall / entertainment center along with a built in office and a semi-private terrace. In addition, it has a vaulted ceiling in the “great” room and two skylights. The covered entrance way is suitable for two chairs located next to a covered garden area. Once through the impressive front door, you enter the “great room” which houses the kitchen, dining room, office and living room. Upon entering, there is a built in wooden hutch surfaced with granite—it matches all the built-in furniture in the great room. There is a clothes washer and dryer off the 2nd bedroom. It may also be used for storage.









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Total Area (Sq Ft):1738
Total area (Sq M):161
Bedrooms:2
Bathrooms:2
Floor(s):Single Floor
Type:Attached
Furnished:No

Weather: The trade winds are blowing; the weather has changed.  Overcast some of the time but mostly sunny.   We're irrigating on a regular basis.

Little Theater Group: On Sunday a small group went to the last production of "The Caretaker".  It was very well acted and quite enjoyable. 

Residency:  One document I needed was delivered this week.  I reviewed it and in three pages, there were 15 errors. Many of the errors were typos but one was significant because my passport number was WRONG.  In a country where any excuse to not do something is the norm, I had 15 excuses.  Obviously I returned it for fixing.  But the point here is, that you cannot assume that documents are prepared accurately. I've seen so many times transpositions, miss spelling, wrong dates.....I have become my own control / inspection person.  My police report arrived but we are now waiting  for Lita's.   Both applications were made in the same envelope but seem to have become separated in Ottawa....one result was sent to our home address in Toronto which is the one we are now awaiting...; mine for whatever reason, was sent to our Miami forwarding address--that is the one I received. It could be that we are nearly there.....ready to submit all our documents for translation and then into the Residency Application System where we will be issued a number and wait, and wait, and wait.....and where they will probably lose at least one or more documents which will have to be resupplied, and who knows what other events will occur....One person on site has been waiting 2 yrs. 4 mo....and counting.

Bye Bye Birdie:  One of Lita's pericos flew away.  We had been telling her she needed to allow me to clip the wings.....didn't happen.....birdie went bye bye......  now she realizes she was wrong.....too late....

Real Estate Market:  The Tico Times had an article the beginnings of life in the RE market.  While I didn't find it very  informative, it was interesting that the article even appeared.

A couple banking stories: A friend related to me a story of how he was recently called to the Scotiabank and grilled by two US IRS people.  His account was / is quite active and they wanted an explanation.  He also told me a story of a similar incident at a Panamanian bank where IRS agents approached the banking wanting a look-see at an account..The banker made a phone call, and the story goes that he informed the IRS people that it was their lucky day, they were being given a one way ticket back to the US and would be promptly escorted to the airport.  Should they want to return, they were advised that they would be arrested and jailed.  They were wished a nice flight.