How to
Why Planning Is Vital For Long-Term Property Investments
In preparation for our recent move to Paris, my husband Harry and I had a plan. Because we were visiting...
Read more
We’ve Entered The Golden Age For Global Property Investing
We've been beating this drum lately, but I'll make the point here again, one more time, for the record: We...
Read more
What To Look For In A Rental Management Agency Overseas
Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...
Read more
Why I Focus On Real Estate Price And Not Exchange Rate
I don’t usually pay attention to exchange rates on a daily basis. However, being in Europe for the last month,...
Read more
5 Rules You Should Apply ASAP If You Don’t Want To Retire Broke
I had a revelation the other day. I was researching long-term health care investment opportunities for my True Retirement Wealth subscribers when...
Read more
Some Helpful Tips Before You Buy Real Estate In Portugal
While I feel very lucky to wake up every day in my new Portuguese home, it took more than good...
Read more
Our Adventure Retiring And Buying A Home In Tavira, Portugal
When my husband and I decided we wanted to move to the Algarve... and then further decided that we wanted...
Read more
Back In Paris, But For How Long? My Life As A Serial Expat
After almost 12 years away, I'm finally back in France. Just how long I'll get to stay this time is...
Read more
How I Escaped The 9-To-5 And Found My Dream Life Overseas
Looking back, I can see that 2011 was one of the biggest turning points in my life. Little did I...
Read more
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...
Read more
Repatriating Funds From Overseas: Transfers, Taxes, And More
Something to consider when investing in another country is the requirements for repatriating your funds if and when you decide...
Read more
Free Lesson On The Best Portfolio Management Strategy
I come from humble beginnings. The village where I grew up had fewer than a hundred houses… most of them...
Read more
9 Critical Issues To Consider Before Deciding To Live Overseas
Yesterday, we walked through the six big issues you must address as you work to make a plan for reinventing...
Read more
The Six Things You Need To Do If You Are Retiring Overseas
How do you retire overseas? After more than 30 years thinking this through, I feel pretty confident in my answer...
Read more
An Update On Tax Changes And Qualified Opportunity Zones
The U.S. tax code is nearly 75,000 pages long. That is to say… U.S. taxes are the most complicated in...
Read more
Heather Reviews Our 2018 Retire Overseas Conference
My husband Bob and I have been considering retiring overseas for several years. With the big retirement date drawing near,...
Read more
How To Buy Your First Stock
I've written to you in the past about where the market is moving, which sectors will dominate the future, and...
Read more
How We Choose An Overseas Property Investment
At lunch yesterday, a friend in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference broke out his phone and started...
Read more
The Only Investing Principle That Works In Any Market
Let me tell you about one of the best investing lessons I’ve ever learned. When I was in elementary school,...
Read more
Winter Sale 2019 –Up To 52% Discounts In These Emerging Markets
The other day I walked along the local shopping avenue, where all the stores displayed large signs proclaiming "Big Winter...
Read more
11 Essential Tips To Plan Your Retirement Overseas
Here are 11 things I've learned from the school of hard knocks after four international moves across three continents with...
Read more
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....
Read more
How My Overseas Investments Kept Me Safe From Crisis
I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost...
Read more
Global Property Investment 101: Where To Start
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...
Read more
9 Reasons Why Real Estate Overseas Is A Great Investment
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
Read more
Moving Overseas? The 10 Downsizing Tips You Need To Know
If you're considering a move overseas and—like most middle-class North Americans—you have accumulated a lifetime's worth of stuff, you will...
Read more
The One Indicator To Watch For Profits In 2019
I'd call Leon our find of the decade. About this time last year, Kathleen and I launched a search. We...
Read more
Why My 2019 Diversification Plans Include Buying More Stocks
As a New Year's exercise last year, I ran the numbers for a rough comparison. I was wondering how the...
Read more
Unretirement: Broadening Your Retirement Perspective
Many, including, perhaps, you, are understandably concerned about retirement. How will you manage it? Here's how: Don't retire. Retirement was...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
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...
Read more
How Barbara Enjoys Two Lifestyles—The Algarve And Medellín
As recently as three years ago, Barbara Petrohan never thought she’d be shopping for fresh ingredients from her local farmers’...
Read more
Time To Start A New Life Overseas In 2019
All the calendar days of a new year in front of us... each one begging to be filled with discovery......
Read more
The Real Reason To Retire Overseas Is Purpose
"I just don't know what to do now. I mean... what do I do with myself at this stage? Where...
Read more
How To Move Overseas And Launch Your New Life, Step 1
With just four days remaining until New Year 2019, I challenge you to get up and get going. It's time....
Read more
The Opportunity To Live And Invest Overseas Is Yours To Take
What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and spend your time and your money any way you wanted? As...
Read more
How, When, And Why I Decided To Make The Move Overseas
I admit it. If you're right now looking into making a move to a new country, I'm a little jealous....
Read more
The Stock Market Opportunity Of The Year
1871, Italy. After waging war among one another for much of the 19th century, states on the Apennine Peninsula finally...
Read more
From Paris To Panama: Celebrating Thanksgiving Overseas
All American expats I know are today paying their respects, in big ways or small, wherever in the world they...
Read more
Agricultural Investment: Relax And Watch Your Profits Grow
In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else... but who wants a...
Read more
The Benefits And Best Options For Co-Working Spaces Abroad
As you make your plan for reinventing your life in a new country while creating a revenue stream to support...
Read more
How To Fund Your New Live Overseas Teaching English Online
Until recently, if you wanted to teach English overseas—one of the most accessible gigs for job-seeking expats—you needed two things:...
Read more
6 Ways Absolutely Anyone Can Make Money Living Overseas
Not having the money you think you need to live where you dream of living is not a reason not...
Read more
How To Find Your Ideal Location, Anywhere In The World
If you could live anywhere... where would you choose? It can be hard to find an answer to a question...
Read more
Find Out Where Money Grows On Trees For Up To 80 Years
2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...
Read more
Staying IRS Compliant While Abroad: Dates And Common Qs
It’s tax time again for us Americans. That is, next Monday, Oct. 15, is the reporting deadline for those of...
Read more
I Truly Enjoy What I Do: What It’s Like Teaching English Abroad
I've just finished class with Renata, a pediatrics resident who will go to the United States in July for a...
Read more
How I Used My Writing Skills To Build My Own Business
I sat across the street in my car staring at the door to building number 824. I was 21 years...
Read more
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,...
Read more
