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Where You Should Be Opening An Offshore Bank Account
We’ve been reporting lately on your best choices for establishing alternative residency overseas… and why the right to live indefinitely in...
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10 Retiree-Friendly Visa Options For Easy Residency
Friday, resident go-offshore expert Lief Simon introduced you to the best places worldwide to establish residency to cut your tax bill... even...
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A Guide To Tax Obligations For U.S. Citizens Living Overseas
The United States and Eritrea, a small African nation, are the only two countries in the world to tax citizens...
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Free E-Book On How To Diversify Outside Of The United States
We're living in unprecedented times. Times so extraordinary that it's natural to feel powerless. With all the doom and gloom...
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The Offshore Guru’s Guide To Residency And 2nd Citizenship
Freedom... security... special benefits... a reduced cost of living... a new life... a new start... a better retirement... a grand...
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Apples to Apples: Comparing Cost Of Living Abroad
Apples to apples. That's the principle to keep in mind when comparing costs, both for living and for buying real...
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Figuring Out Your Best Choices For An Alternative Residency
A Plan B has never been more important than it is right now. Your all-important backup plan starts with the...
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Most Frequently Asked (And Not So Crazy) Questions About Retiring Overseas
Our editors, contributors, correspondents, and friends across the globe are all out right now pulling together to finalize the program...
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Find Out Why Medical Tourism Is Booming Among U.S. Citizens
Health insurance in the United States today is a maddening, sometimes infuriating quagmire. This is not a global reality. Many,...
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6 Things To Consider When Buying A Second Home Overseas
Years ago, I knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast of...
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The 3 Real Estate Investment Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
One big loss can wipe out a lot of gains. After more than two-and-a-half decades of property investing experience across...
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Overseas Property Adventures From Ireland To Paris
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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Real Estate In Panama With Guaranteed Return On Investment
"Can an evergreen tree die?" my son asked as I ran alongside his bike. Under Irish lockdown laws, we're free...
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A Global Property Online Summit You Can’t Afford To Miss
As Lief and I sat down at our dining room table this weekend to finalize the program for next month's Global...
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Real Expat Story: Moving To Valencia, Spain, Was My Destiny
There is a scene in the 2003 movie "Under The Tuscan Sun" that I now can identify as the moment...
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Celebrating 12 Years Of Helping People Find Their Dream Life
Twelve years ago this month, I started Live and Invest Overseas. Back then, that first year, we were a two-person...
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10 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying A Home Overseas
Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...
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8 Tips To Get Maximum Profit Selling Your Overseas Property
We speak often about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help you...
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11 Questions You Should Ask Before Buying Property Overseas
Certainly if you’re making a first-ever investment, but even if you’ve already made several real estate purchases overseas, how can...
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A Guide To The Best Real Estate Opportunities After COVID-19
What will global property markets look like post the COVID-19 pandemic? I do not believe we’re going to see 40%...
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Top 4 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
When considering any potential investment, begin by asking yourself whether you are buying more for capital appreciation or for cash...
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9 Reasons Why It Makes Sense To Buy Real Estate Overseas
Why might it make sense for you to buy a piece of property overseas? The answers to that question are...
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Panama Pre-Construction Condo Opportunity In Prime Location
We talked recently about the signs to look out for when identifying a market that's ripe for investment. One of...
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Find Out The Best Way To Hold Real Estate Overseas
How should one hold property overseas? That's a regular question at conferences... especially my Global Property Summit each year. The best...
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5 Tips To Become More Productive When Working From Home
Twenty years ago, living and running a business in Waterford, Ireland, I opened the first of a series of what...
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Get Your Dream Retirement Overseas In As Little As 52 Days
You hear from me every day in these dispatches on some aspect of living and retiring overseas. One day I’m...
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Why I’m Glad That I Hold The World’s Most Valuable Asset
The death rate from the coronavirus won’t make a dent in the global population even if 100% of us catch...
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How To Move To Ecuador
Who Is Moving To Ecuador? Ecuador is such a varied place that it attracts people from every walk of life....
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10 Reasons Why The Algarve Is Our #1 Retire Overseas Option
For five years running, we’ve named Portugal’s Algarve coast as the world’s #1 place to retire overseas. Why do we...
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Join Our Online Community At The Overseas Living Clubhouse
"Mom, they just told us all that the dorms are closing this weekend. We need to leave by Sunday at...
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We Are Launching Virtual Conferences In 2020
Last week, Lief and I traveled freely between Paris, France, and Waterford, Ireland. Despite the spread of the coronavirus in...
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Why Diversification Is The Best Way To Prepare For Any Crisis
Keeping up with current world events can be exhausting and overwhelming. But it needn't be paralyzing. You do not need...
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How My Overseas Investments Kept Me Safe From Crisis
Twenty years ago, I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could...
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How To Tell If You’ve Found Your Ideal Home Overseas
Before you're ready to retire, you're likely to notice places around the world where you'd like to be able to...
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4 Ways To Identify Overseas Property Markets For Investment
A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a guest on the Jetsetter Show Podcast with host Jason Hartman....
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8 Things You Need To Know About Bank Financing Overseas
Lief used Other People's Money (OPM) to launch his real estate investing career in the United States, and we were...
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9 Reasons Why Buying Real Estate Overseas Makes Sense
Can an average person really invest in real estate to generate reliable cash flow overseas? I get the question all...
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Retire Overseas Conference Helps Couple Retire To Medellín
“I get two weeks of vacation a year from my stressful job, and you want me to spend one of...
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Ranking Medellín, Colombia, As A City For Digital Nomads
All over the globe, people are rethinking the way we work and live. Unsatisfied with the confines of the cubicle...
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How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets Overseas
Rum and real estate don't mix. You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land....
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Why The Best Time To Retire Overseas Is Always Now
Some years ago, back home in Baltimore for the holidays, I caught up with an old friend. Bill had a...
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Find The “Right Place”: Our 2020 Retire Overseas Conference
If you’ve been to our Retire Overseas Conference in the past, you’ll identify with this… If you haven’t, but are...
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Retire Overseas In Under 12 Months By Asking 8 Questions
The world is alive with opportunity for fun and for profit. Let’s begin there. And let’s meet in my hometown...
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How Barbara Enjoys Two Lifestyles—The Algarve And Medellín
As recently as four years ago, Barbara Petrohan never thought she’d be shopping for recipe ingredients from the farmers’ market...
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The 2 Biggest Concerns Retirees Have Before Living Overseas
The Forbes reporter who interviewed me wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he began, "is an...
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The Secret To Being Happy In Your New Life Overseas
When is the right time for you to make a move overseas? Right now. OK, I don't know you personally,...
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5 More Things To Check Before You Move Overseas
Yesterday I began a list of 10 things you'll need to think about when you're planning for a move overseas. Today, we...
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The Top 5 Things To Check Before You Move Overseas
What does 2020 hold in store for you? Do you approach it with trepidation or enthusiasm? If you're reading these...
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Planning For The Next Stage Of Life
For better than two decades now, Lief and I have been working together to identify and then position pieces of...
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The Pros And Cons Of Being A Snowbird In Sunny Panama
OK... to set the record straight... in my experience, there is no ugly. My husband and I have been snowbirds...
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