How To Find A Rental Overseas

March 28, 2011, Panama City, Panama: The best strategy for sourcing a rental in a foreign country is almost a non-strategy: word-of-mouth.

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

When you're considering your retire-overseas options, trying different places on for size to find which one(s) might suit you best, you need temporary accommodation. You could stay in a hotel, of course, but that gets costly and doesn't give you a real experience of living somewhere. Hotel life isn't real life.

Thin Slicing Belize--From The Caribbean To The Cayo To Corozal

May 3, 2010, Belize: Belize can be broken down into four regions: Ambergris Caye in the Caribbean; Belize City; the beach at Corozal; coastal Placencia and Dangriga; and the wide-open Cayo with its mountains and Mayan ruins, rivers and rain forest.

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader, 

Clear turquoise waters lapping gently against soft white sand. Palm trees rustling in the warm breeze. Fishing boats bobbing on the horizon. Birdsong and island tunes all around...

A New Life Overseas At Age 21

March 27, 2011, Panama City, Panama: It’s never too early, and you’re never to young to launch a new life overseas.

Also This Week: Inefficient Markets...The Real Belize...One Woman's Reasons For Choosing Chile...Medellin Versus Panama City...

Dear Overseas Opportunity Letter Reader,

Our daughter Kaitlin is spending her Spring Break in Panama this week. Kaitlin is in her final semester of university in Manhattan, where she has been studying art history and French and interning at Christie's.

Inefficient Markets, Part II--Why Net Pricing Is A Dirty Word

March 25, 2011, Panama City, Panama: Here’s how to avoid becoming the victim of net pricing when investing in real estate in foreign emerging markets.

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

Net pricing. In my vernacular, it's a dirty word.

It's also, unfortunately, common with real estate listings around the world...especially in inefficient markets like those in Latin America.