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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
 (TBT) Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly approved a law this week which will impose a luxury tax on houses with a value of more than $182,000.
Under the bill a $300,000 house, excluding the value of the land, would attract an annual tax of $750. The owners of a $500,000 home would have to pay $1250 a year. The tax on a million dollar-home would be $2500.
The tax, which would be in place for ten years, is over and above...
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
 (TwWW) Model Leda Artevia Rojas struts her stuff in Tamarindo Thursday September 11, 2008, in a dress made entirely from coffee bags.
Organizers of Tamarindo’s first Trashion Fashion show say they have raised more than $4500 for the town’s recycling program
Tamarindo Recycles presented Trashion Fashion, an event to raise awareness and funds for the Tamarindo Recycles committee.
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
 (By Garland M. Baker Special to AMC) A personal trip to the Parrita-Quepos area to look at property and meet with real estate agents turned out to be an invaluable experience. The real estate slowdown is quite evident, but there is good news for well-informed investors. Today’s deep discounts are tomorrow’s profits.
For sale signs are everywhere. Property prices have dropped on some real estate 50 percent or more. Some people have walked away from the houses they were building before completion and assigned them to real estate agents...
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
 (Andrew Cohan for HVS) The Costa Rica Mixed-Use Resort Pipeline: Sustainability and Changing Market Conditions Costa Rica's Pacific coast has been a target for tourism investment.
This article examines status of the development pipeline in light of sustainability considerations, and explores how sustainability will be incorporated in feasibility analysis.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
 (By Devon Magee Special to TTT) TAMARINDO, Guanacaste – Residents here are voicing concern over strains that growing development has placed on the community and the environment.
Once accessible only by boat, Tamarindo, on the northwestern Pacific coast, is now considered a bona fide surf city, rife with the growing pains characteristic of urban expansion. Its setting in the middle of Las Baulas National Marine Park, a leatherback turtle nesting sanctuary, has made development especially tricky.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
 (APMT) SETENA has two months to execute the resolution of the Plenary Commission of SETENA (No. 652-2007-SETENA). On July 23, 2008, the Administrative Contentious Tribunal in San José reached a verdict, stating that SETENA has two months to execute the Resolution of the Plenary Commission and submit a report to the Judge.
The Judge has to revise the documents sent by SETENA, and determine if the actions undertaken comply with the compromises stated in the resolution.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
 (TBT) Shipping containers are starting to give new meaning to the term mobile home.
With a growing global surplus, and an equally exponentially-growing architectural interest in the things, building with containers — not-so-lovingly referred to as “icons of globalization” — is greening up future living.
The only disadvantages lay in the limits of your imagination, says owner...
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
 (Letter to the editor of TTN) Costa Rica is such a beautiful country and we have come down a couple of times from California to enjoy its wonders. This trip, we decided to rent a condo for three weeks because the value made sense for our family. We could get three bedrooms and a kitchen, cook when we needed to, and enjoy the amenities and save our money for the multitude of tours that we wanted to take part in around the area. So far we’ve been to Rincon de la Viejo for the volcano mud, horseback riding, a canopy etc.
Yet, we are very upset ...
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
 (TBT) The Tamarindo Association, which for more than a decade has been trying to control the popular beach town’s rampant growth, is under threat this week through lack of money.
Town officials have told the Association’s Executive Director, Federico Amador (pictured), he must leave his post at the end of the month because it can no longer afford him.
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