| So here are a few examples of the 'truth' that affects | | | | 7. "Thanks to the human resources of Costa Rica," |
| Costa Rica real estate of the 9th May 2008: | | | | Intel builds the most powerful processors in the world |
| 1. Costa Rica remains a safe and peaceful haven for | | | | right here. Intel has invested about $800 million in Costa |
| many real estate investors and entrepreneurs from | | | | Rica over the last ten years and will invest another |
| other countries in Central and Latin America. | | | | $90 million in 2008. "Costa Rica plays in the greatest |
| 2. With the Central American free trade agreement a | | | | technology leagues. Thanks to Costa Rica talent, |
| 'done deal', real estate investors, business people and | | | | millions of people can connect to the web." |
| entrepreneurs are no longer in a 'wait and see' mode, | | | | 8. While the working class and the middle class |
| they are now coming here from the USA, Mexico, | | | | continue to be decimated in the USA as jobs move |
| Spain, Germany and other countries in Europe. | | | | inshore to countries like Costa Rica and offshore to |
| 3. In 2007 Costa Rica attracted 27 new foreign high | | | | China, Costa Rica has plenty of work. At the job fair a |
| technology companies which generated some 6,352 | | | | few weeks ago, companies including Procter & |
| jobs and about US$421 million in investment. For a tiny | | | | Gamble, Intel, IBM, HP & Fujitsu (recognize any of |
| country like Costa Rica, that's huge! | | | | those names?) are having trouble filling 8,000 positions |
| 4. Boston Scientific announced that they will invest | | | | they have available. |
| another $35 million over the next three years and add | | | | 9. And while America's biggest banks and some of |
| about 1,200 employees. | | | | Wall Street's largest investment firms are literally |
| 5. The German company Continental AG will produce | | | | begging for money from foreign investors and the |
| electronic components for car transmissions in Costa | | | | USA is by far the world's largest debtor, after 40 |
| Rica after investing US$61 millions dollars in their new | | | | years of deficits, Costa Rica will close 2007 with a |
| manufacturing facility in Alajuela. | | | | surplus... |
| 6. The Baxter medical equipment company which has | | | | In any market, be it stocks, bonds, commodities or real |
| over 1,300 employees in Costa Rica recently opened a | | | | estate, there are always pockets of opportunities so |
| new, first of it's kind 152,000 square foot sterilization | | | | while the blood maybe running in the streets of certain |
| plant in Cartago. This new manufacturing facility in | | | | real estate markets, I can assure you from first hand |
| Cartago, has already been recognized with the 2008 | | | | personal consulting experience with well over 100+ |
| Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence, the first to be | | | | transactions in the last 12 months, that Costa Rica |
| awarded the Shingo Prize outside North America and | | | | continues to boom as an emerging market, the real |
| they are being "honored for their achievements in | | | | estate market in most parts of the country is excellent |
| driving higher quality and improvements in productivity, | | | | and there are plenty of opportunities for the savvy |
| manufacturing cycle time and customer lead-time." | | | | investor. |