Stillsmokin21
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Ive always wanted to move to costa rica....wan
Rest is for pussies. I don't have to do anything with the import business. I pay people to run it. Building homes is fun and I definitely enjoy it. But I'm not some huge developer. I do 1-2 projects (12-16 month builds) a year and have a few that I am holding onto as vacation rental properties. Have a few girls that work for me and manage those. Labor is cheap in Central America. I'm on the jobsite a few hours every day if that. No need to be. I have good people that I trust and a business partner who helps out with that end of it. Honestly, I spend most of my time sportfishing and travelling. I fish 10-12 WBS tournaments every year in the Easter U.S., Caribbean, and the Pacific Coast of Central America. I used to have a thread about sportfishing till it got erased during the hack. If you like I can throw up some pictures of some of the homes I've built and some pretty crazy sportfishing photos? Up to you. Drawing up a plan for someone on a simple sketch software that we use everyday takes me all of 5 minutes. It's a software program we use to layout design ideas before we autoCad them. Figured I'd actually give something back to this community as I have taken so much knowledge from it.So you build high end homes to order and you run an import company that imports everything other than refrigerated goods? what do you import? You also offer to design other peoples grow rooms in another thread. How do you have the time man?
Rest is for pussies. I don't have to do anything with the import business. I pay people to run it. Building homes is fun and I definitely enjoy it. But I'm not some huge developer. I do 1-2 projects (12-16 month builds) a year and have a few that I am holding onto as vacation rental properties. Have a few girls that work for me and manage those. Labor is cheap in Central America. I'm on the jobsite a few hours every day if that. No need to be. I have good people that I trust and a business partner who helps out with that end of it. Honestly, I spend most of my time sportfishing and travelling. I fish 10-12 WBS tournaments every year in the Easter U.S., Caribbean, and the Pacific Coast of Central America. I used to have a thread about sportfishing till it got erased during the hack. If you like I can throw up some pictures of some of the homes I've built and some pretty crazy sportfishing photos? Up to you. Drawing up a plan for someone on a simple sketch software that we use everyday takes me all of 5 minutes. It's a software program we use to layout design ideas before we autoCad them. Figured I'd actually give something back to this community as I have taken so much knowledge from it.
Let me know if you wanna see what REAL sportfishing looks like.
Depends on what your price range is. Plenty of affordable stuff down here if you are willing to give up a few comforts of the U.S. PM me if you are really interested.Any ranches in your neighborhood for sale?
I could see an entire community moving into your hood from here.
Costa Rica has relatively low income taxes and no sales tax. Also very low property taxes and no social taxes. They do have VERY high import taxes though. It's their way of taxing the wealthy because it's usually only the wealthy that are purchasing imported items. This affects almost everything that is imported. Mostly electronics, cars, and building supplies. For example; Toyota Tundra fully loaded in the U.S. $50k, in Costa Rica $80k. PS3 in the U.S. $300, in Costa Rica $600. It's like that for TV's, shoes, sporting goods, etc... I can't tell you how but I have the ability legally to import items without having to pay those taxes. In the beginning I used it to import all of our construction materials (drywall, meter mains, electrical cable, power tools, appliances, plumbing fittings, etc..). This gave us the ability to build for almost 40% cheaper than our competitors. Which meant I could sell the homes I built much cheaper. Then we starting importing things for friends and other developers; pretty soon it became a full blown business. Now we import roughly 30-45 shipping containers a month. Average markup after shipping costs is 32%.Sure post up your designer homes and fishing pics will be a nice change to bud porn. What do you import and what are the margins like on the things you import?
Thanks man. Anytime you can make it down just let me know. We'll get you out fishing for a few days. I'm on the water a lot between fucking around and fishing tournaments. Be more than happy to drag you along. Show you how the pros do it.holy fuck you lucky SOB lol. damn dude i wanna move down there now to. im a hardcore fisherman and pothead you got me excited bout fishing haha. man you own 2 bigass boats thats awsome i have a small boat but nothing like niether of yours. you really got it made man. im very impressed. i think i might be more impressed with your boats than your grow room lol.
That's really fantastic man. I'm happy for you. Ecuador is a beautiful country and you will love it. Best of luck to you.phillipchristian Nice setup you have there! I've wanted to move to Costa Rica for a long time but missed the "window" on the really CHEAP land prices. I know it's still MUCH more affordable than anywhere in north america .... but not quite cheap enough for my pensions For the last three years I've been researching other "retirement" digs. I've made my mind up... I am bound for Ecuador in the next two or three years (the missus and I are going there this fall for a "fact finding" trip).
KUDOS to you for finding your place in the sun! Hoping to find my own soon
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Thanks man. Anytime you can make it down just let me know. We'll get you out fishing for a few days. I'm on the water a lot between fucking around and fishing tournaments. Be more than happy to drag you along. Show you how the pros do it.
Sorry you didn't get to see the pics. You missed one hell of a show. I don't ever post pics of my rooms. It's called security. Go start a thread about it and find out how many guys don't. You got a tent in your closet or a corner in your basement then go for it Kush, post away. I'm not going to cause what I do and where I do it is VERY ILLEGAL and I'm not going to get busted just cause you are a hater. You called me out and got proven wrong. Now scurry along teenager.Thats a bit rude... I was just showing an interest. Didn't get a chance to see any of your pics. Btw why don't you show pics of your grow room?
Your very defensive.. It really makes no sense to not post pics of your grow room, unless it doesn't exist. It is nice to dream.Sorry you didn't get to see the pics. You issed one hell of a show. I don't ever post pics of my rooms. It's called security. Go start a thread about it and find out how many guys don't. You got a tent in your closet or a corner in your basement then go for it Kush, post away. I'm not going to cause what I do and where I do it is VERY ILLEGAL and I'm not going to getting busted just cause you are a hater. You called me out and got proven wrong. Now scurry along teenager.
It really makes a lot of sense to create a ghost account and use your 10 posts in this forum to harrass people. What do you care about my room. You'll never smoke it or see it. Go try and start trouble elsewhere. You got punked when you tried to call me out and now you are trying to save face by getting me to post pics of my room when you know I don't. Why not use your real account to start shit? Just cause you are jealous of me doesn't mean I care. Piss off TROLL!Your very defensive.. It really makes no sense to not post pics of your grow room, unless it doesn't exist. It is nice to dream.