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Bright and early this morning, our entire far-flung Live and Invest Overseas team convened for this year's Retire Overseas Virtual...

"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained...

I’ve been hosting conferences on living, retiring, and investing overseas for more than 30 years. At these events I’ve met...

Day by day in these dispatches, I work to show you that you can reinvent your life for the better...

What if you could retire early... even with a small nest egg and little income? What if you could live...

The countdown is on... To the biggest and most important live and retire overseas event of 2021. Every year for...

When you're planning a move to a new country, it helps to surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people. Your fellow...

Does moving overseas mean having to learn a new language? Well, unless you choose to move to one of the...

This week I've been thinking back and remembering readers I've been fortunate enough to get to know personally. Readers whose...

Do I feel more or less American living overseas? I get this question a lot. I've been living outside the...

Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...

Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally...

Years ago, my mother knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...

I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost...

Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...

We’re speaking this week about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all...

What if the country where you'd like to retire uses a currency other than the U.S. dollar? That is, how...

Nearly two-and-a-half decades living overseas—in Ireland, France, and Panama—have taught me...  1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn doing...

I receive your Mailbag questions for me direct to my inbox each morning. I read through them before I do...

Renovating a property overseas is something many of us dream about. But I can't go any further without asking you...

"I get two weeks of vacation a year from my stressful job, and you want me to spend one of...

You know, of course, that you can gain from your property purchase when there’s a strong currency advantage. But this...

Here are 11 things I've learned from the school of hard knocks after four international moves across three continents with...

While I feel very lucky to wake up in my new Portuguese home every morning, it took more than good...

The world is alive with opportunity. Specifically, in the context of the conversation we carry on day-to-day in these dispatches,...

Retirement is looming. With it comes the challenge of deciding where to live. I plan to take the next three...

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former...

One of the biggest challenges you'll face as you launch your new life in a new country is seldom discussed....

Thinking about making an overseas property purchase can arouse feelings such as excitement, fear, anxiety, relief, and accomplishment. Even seasoned...

Hindsight is 2020... and we’ve definitely learned a lot this year. Cities have been eerily quiet during the pandemic and...

The following questions, which we receive every day, are often preceded by, "I feel a little foolish asking, but I'm...

The first and perhaps most important step you must take to make sure that you arrive where you want to...

"I just don't know what to do now. I mean... what do I do with myself at this stage? Where...

With just three days remaining until New Year 2021, I challenge you to get up and get going. It's time....

One of the best ways to generate cash flow from a property investment is through rental yields. But sometimes, keeping...

This will be a piece of cake, I told myself as we prepared for our move from Baltimore to Waterford...

Years ago, a friend—a smart guy... a guy who’d been around the block... done business all over the world—engaged an...

Over the weekend I read one of those Q&A articles in a mainstream financial publication. A reader had written in...

Moving overseas comes with a lot of goodbyes. We say farewell to our houses, our families, our coworkers, and our...

Your most important ally when buying, selling, or renting real estate overseas is your attorney. First thing, therefore, when beginning...

If you want to open a bank account in the United States, you walk into a branch of a bank...

When Lief and I sat down to map out the plan for our new book "How To Buy Real Estate...

Other than “How can I move my pet overseas?”, “How can I find a vet once I’ve made the move...

I’ve been reviewing the schedule of confirmed speakers for my Offshore Wealth Virtual Summit taking place later this month, to...

After four months in northern Illinois, Kathleen and I are taking our leave of these United States this weekend. That...