Nov 15, 2006 | Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
Over at Yo-Yo in Paradise, Tica Teri has a great photo on her blog this morning. A beautiful flat green space with a lone bull. Apparently next to a pig farm. These days, big green spaces, even ones next to smelly pig farms, are good for one thing and one thing only:...
Oct 30, 2006 | Cost of Living, Expat, Moving-To, Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®, Renting A House
We found a house. A huge house. A huge affordable house. With a fantastic view. Yes, on the gringo side of the valley. Trust me, I suffer appropriate guilt. But I’m close to the theatre and the boys are close to the Multiplaza and movies. And other teens. We are...
Sep 25, 2006 | Cost of Living, Culture Shock, Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
Moving to Costa Rica? I just did and, gosh, I already have a couple of opinions. Surprise, surprise. There is tons to consider, of course, but in the great scheme of Things To Know When Moving to Costa Rica, the two most important are Thing 1 and Thing 2. Thing 1...
Sep 25, 2006 | Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
Chris is moving to Costa Rica as soon as her house sells. Her writings on the trials and tribulations of selling a house are HYSTERICAL. Like today. And the posting before that. The Thoreau quote is so right on! She is funny in the face of a daunting task and makes me...
Jul 31, 2006 | Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
Becoming a real estate salesperson is NOT like becoming a brain surgeon. Being a brain surgeon requires skill and knowledge. Several years of schooling and experience. Money and/or the credit worthiness to go deeply into debt. I'm thinking it must require an...
May 13, 2006 | Real Estate, Recovering REALTOR®
In my other life, my previous life, before blogging and Costa Rica, I was a real estate broker. I guess technically I’m still a real estate broker, but I’m now in recovery. I still work with some of my property management customers in Key West, helping...
Mar 31, 2006 | Recovering REALTOR®
So we are at the new school, St. Cecilia’s, signing up the boys. The clerk asks me what I do for a living ("Qué es sue profesión?") I tell her I am a housewife because I can’t say sand sculpturess in Spanish. She types in "HOG" which is...
Mar 25, 2006 | Recovering REALTOR®
Rumor has it, we’ve retired. "Retiring" means choosing to quit your job and moving to another country… I guess we sorta did that. But it implies doing that without the need to ever work again. Uh, we didn’t do that. We aren’t...
