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	<itunes:summary>Ben, Rod, &amp; guests consider the ever changing news, information, ecological issues &amp; availability in Costa Rica real estate. Monthly talk shows &amp; videos.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Memo</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2010/04/the-memo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: the  following is not necessarily what some sellers of Costa Rica real estate want  to hear.
It was sometime in 2008 when the world changed.  Our globalized economy demonstrated, for the  first time, the extent to which we (all us humans) are interconnected.  When one falls, we all lose our balance.
Some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Real Estate Chit Chat</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2010/04/costa-rica-real-estate-chit-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A free flow of some of the latest goings on in Costa Rica's southern pacific zone and the business of real estate there.  There appears to be a licensing requirement coming for Costa Rica's realtors.  Also, a full bodied MLS is in the works (finally) for Costa Rica.  It appears that the legal provision of a trust is, at present, not available in Costa Rica.  And finally, about reading Spanish language websites in English.]]></description>
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		<title>Did Taxes &amp; Tourism Blow Costa Rica Real Estate Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: In The Rearview Mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2010/01/2009-in-the-rearview-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rod &#38; 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&#8217;ve written. 
   First off is Rod
If you subscribe to the idea that life is a series of ups and downs, then last year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confusion Around Costa Rica&#8217;s Luxury Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I get this great e-mail from some super in-the-know real estate guys the other day that answers a number of my questions regarding the new Luxury Tax law.  After this &#8220;clarification&#8221; I post to my Facebook page and Tweet the news where I stated &#8220;I have determined that the new Luxury Tax in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s New Luxury Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/10/costa-ricas-new-luxury-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/10/costa-ricas-new-luxury-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything that I know about it (which ain&#8217;t much).
There is a new law that has now quietly come into force in Costa Rica.  It is being called the “Luxury House Tax” or a facsimile thereof.
I now have it on good authority that there is mass confusion about this law by the few that have even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrimp n&#8217; Street Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/05/shrimp-street-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guys in the Zone heresay service: I thought that I&#8217;d behave like a blogger this morning and so I cruised the Costa Rica news &#38; real estate blogs.  The following are my findings along with some current gossip:
The PRETOMA (Programa Restauracion de Tortugas Marinas) website
The US Department of State`s Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of Sean McGraw</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/in-memory-of-sean-mcgraw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/in-memory-of-sean-mcgraw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very much in keeping with the theme of Costa Rica real estate, I thought I&#8217;d take advantage of the liberties afforded me as the owner of this blog and write about the death of a professional associate, and a friend, Sean McGraw.
Sean died Tuesday night, March 24th, 2009, in a car accident.  He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Question on Everbody&#8217;s Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/the-question-on-everbodys-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/the-question-on-everbodys-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Land For Sale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How would you describe the current “crisis” impact on the local economy and on Costa Rica real-estate in general?
Yesterday I made the trip up to San Isidro de el General to take care of some things.  I was to meet Rod and Lindsay for lunch at &#8220;Mexico Lindo&#8221;, an amazing genuine Mexican food restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yodel Naked&#8221; Sweeps the Globe</title>
		<link>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/yodel-naked-sweeps-the-globe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.costa-rican-real-estate.com/2009/03/yodel-naked-sweeps-the-globe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some are touting the global phenomenon of Yodeling Naked as the possible solution to the many divisive problems now confronting mankind.  Originally developed as a privacy measure for property in Costa Rica&#8217;s remote southern pacific zone by none other than us here at Guys In The Zone, &#8220;Yodeling Naked&#8221; has swept the globe.  [...]]]></description>
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