Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

I guess marketing works. When we were purchasing all of our appliances in Puerto Rico we didn’t know where to go to buy them. Our biggest concern was how unreliable a warranty might be if we bought off a small local business. After a bunch of years down here, that is the only way to [...]

In order to have a legitimate rant about the collecteria, everyone needs to know what the collecteria is in Puerto Rico. Collecteria: The collecteria is a government office that collects money from businesses and individuals. An example of an individuals’ payment is state income ta, property tax or to cash in lottery tickets. An example [...]

Tags: Live Music, Restaurants, Rincon Nightlife

As of lately, Summer and I haven’t really had much time to do much of anything at all. We are working, taking care of Sydney and trying to get a little free time in after the little munchkin goes to bed. We have been cooking a lot at home; Indian food (plain yogurt marinade for [...]

Tags: banco popular, banks, Mortgage, Puerto Rico

Too busy to rant and rave too much. But, after getting all the things completed to the house that the bank required for our refinance, they tacked $15,000 in closing fees to the loan. Crooks. I spend $5,000 on the house to get the loan and then they try to screw me when they ‘think’ [...]

Tags: banco popular, banks, Mortgage, Puerto Rico, Small Print

I am too busy to go into a big detailed and researched story on Banco Popular and how it got started in Puerto Rico. What I can tell you is this, don’t open an account there. My experience with them in the past two months has convinced me it’s time to change banks, and now [...]

Regarding Fondo report, this is a workmen insurance provided by the PR government that each employers must have. In the beginning the employer should visit or call the nearest office of the State Insurance Fund Corporation (Corporación del Fondo, in Spanish), fill an application in which among other related business information you should estimate the [...]

I woke up this morning at 6:00am. I have a lot of things I would like to do today, none of them are related to working on the house or yard I worked on ‘work stuff’ all day Saturday to take today (Monday) off and go golfing. The only thing stopping me from going to [...]

I really am going nuts here. Puerto Rico is making all of its businesses follow new strict tax guidelines, registration guidelines, exemption guidelines etc so on and so forth which are making me go crazy. Basically, like all governments, they want to have their hand in the cookie jar. I’m cool with that, as a [...]

I am officially living in Puerto Rico full time now, and since I don’t have any property or assets on the mainland, I decided to take advantage of the very generous tax breaks both the federal U.S. government and Puerto Rico give to businesses that move their mainland companies to Puerto Rico. I am currently [...]

By request, I actually went in to the Econo in Rincon today to take pictures of the produce section. I also took a couple snap shots of the fish section. We really were just so spoiled in California. We had so many options. Here, if you want to make a salad, you can! You just [...]