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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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’...
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How I Escaped The 9-To-5 And Found My Dream Life Overseas
As we begin 2019 you may be reminiscing about the past and dreaming about what the New Year will hold......
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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......
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Top 5 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...
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10 Tips For Moving Abroad
Nearly 20 years living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you...
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Conference Attendees Consider Their Options For Retiring Overseas
"Kathleen, I have to tell you the truth," began the Retire Overseas Conference attendee who pulled me aside in the...
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Relocating To Another Country
"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained...
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3 Things You’ll Need If You’re Deciding To Retire Overseas
"The world is alive with opportunity. "Specifically, in the context of this Retire Overseas Conference, the world is alive with...
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Start Your Grand Journey At Our Retire Overseas Conference
Back home in France right now, La Rentrée is in full swing... These early days of September are when family vacations are...
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How I Funded My Early Retirement With Overseas Real Estate
I bought a beachfront home, directly on the sand, for less than US$62,000. After furnishing the solid, 2,000-square-foot house, I...
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How You Can Fund Your Retirement Overseas
“When I retire, I'll have about US$1,400 a month in Social Security and pension income. I'd like to have more....
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From Potholes To Paying Bills: Adjusting To Life In Panama
I'm a recent arrival in this country. I moved to Panama in October of last year. As a new arrival...
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7 Things You Must Know About Learning A New Language
"I'm too old to learn another language." "My brain doesn't work right... I can't remember new words." "I'm not one...
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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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Figuring Out Your Best Choices For An Alternative Residency
Choices. The whole live-and-invest-overseas thing comes down to choices. Because taking control of your future is all about understanding your...
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A Post-Divorce Plan B That Can Really Stretch Your Nest Egg
In today's world, it can be a good idea to have a backup plan... A game plan for where to...
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The 2 Biggest Concerns Retirees Have Before Living Overseas
The Forbes reporter who interviewed me recently wanted me to give it to him straight. "Living or retiring overseas," he began, "is...
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