Costa Rica – 1999: The year that I arrived here with my family.  There just weren’t that many Gringos, or foreigners of any flavor really, in Costa Rica’s southern pacific zone.  Many of the foreigners that were here shared a similar idea.  Land was so cheap that you could buy several hectares (one hectare = 2.47 [...]

For those with construction experience and a desire to build houses in a foreign country, this where there may be money to be made. The crystal ball formula is-- buy a cheap ocean view lot, no more than 10 minutes from the Costanera (our paved coastal highway), and build an affordable house with a swimming pool. The main question we anticipate from potential builders is...

Access to fresh drinking water is already one of the “big three” infrastructure necessities (along with electricity and good roads/access) when looking for property in this country, hence the motivation for this article...

Costa Rica Real Estate Listings I just received an e-mail from a reader that shamed me into sitting right down and writing. I have read your face book page and articles on the tax issue there. I had been planning to take a trip in March in the hopes to travel to Domincal and Uvita nd look [...]

Rod & I have decided to write a few words about the year just past. We did so without consulting each other or giving any clues regarding what we’ve written. First off is Rod If you subscribe to the idea that life is a series of ups and downs, then last year [...]

I’ve put these videos here, mainly just for fun.  But if you check them out and you think you’d like to come stay, please visit our vacation rental website at www.FincaSollaSollew.com. Click to Play A walk through of this soul touching, ocean view, Costa Rica vacation rental. Click to Play A video walk through of this magical, [...]

Click to Play A video walk through of this magical, ocean view, jungle villa. Located between Dominical and Uvita on Costa Rica’s southern Pacific coast.

When we first moved to Costa Rica in 1999, my son Neil was 11 years old and my daughter Hannah was 15.  In those early days, after coming home from a visit to the town center, maybe to the grocery store or whatever, they would complain “Dad, why do they stare?” The [...]