Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

I would love to get on a call with you and talk some more.

But then we have to get into talking about the passive loss rules, which may prevent you from actually being able to claim a tax loss if the deduction is more than your rental or other passive income.Or you can claim the actual expenses (gas, insurance, etc) for the vehicle and regular depreciation, proportioned by the percent of business use of the vehicle.  

Go in person to the planning department and talk to them.

Most people who buy in Costa Rica do it for lifestyle and they might rent (or not) to cover the cost and maybe make a little profit.Unless mentioned otherwise, when responding on that topic I know or I have assumed that people are potentially interested in an investment property, not a lifestyle property because this is an "investment" website and people talk about STR.

These are good attorneys, one of them even spent over 45 minutes on the phone talking to me about options, as well as a personal discussion about fishing, so he clearly wasn't trying to dismiss me.If you have a case, you can file a complaint with the state commission.

Otherwise, they have to eat the extra expense just like homeowners do.I would talk to an attorney and your insurance company.

I'm from NJ and always happy to talk NJ real estate.

I will keep looking maybe @Mark Ainley or @Jason Marcordes know what I am talking about...

I would talk to some lenders  getting land loans and development loans with no experience is next to impossible starting out..