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How You Can Fund Your Retirement Overseas

Labor A Little Less Overseas

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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“When I retire, I’ll have about US$1,400 a month in Social Security and pension income. I’d like to have more. Just a little more. Maybe US$300 or US$400 more per month as a cushion. Do you have any suggestions for how I could accomplish that?”

So asked one attendee at our Retire Overseas Conference in Orlando, Florida, a few years back. She wasn’t the only one wondering about this. Affording retirement was one of our primary topics of discussion.

How are you going to be able to afford the retirement you’ve been dreaming about? Maybe you should defer the idea… keep working for five or six or more years longer… until you’ve been able to set a little more aside…

Nah, that’s not the answer.

As I explained to the crowd assembled in Orlando for the Fifth Annual Retire Overseas event, don’t put off your retirement because you’re worried you can’t fund it. Find a way to generate more funds.

Getting a job in another country as a foreign resident is no easy thing. Often, it’s impossible. But, at this point of your life, do you really want to go to work for someone else anyway?

Much better to start your own thing.

Those of us who’ve grown up in the developed world have a serious leg up on the local competition in the developing one. Show up in a place like Belize, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, or Panama, and you’ll notice all kinds of market gaps. Products and services you’d be willing to bet would be welcome are missing altogether… and others that are available are fulfilled so inefficiently and unreliably as to, again, leave big niches wide open.

So start a business. A messenger service (as did a friend a decade ago in Bucharest, where he noticed that all the local messenger services were unreliable… his is today the biggest in town)… or a self-storage facility (as did another friend years ago in Nicaragua, again very successfully), for example.

Or maybe put your years of professional experience to good use. You could start an auto-repair service (one of your fellow readers has done this in Coronado, Panama), a pool consulting business (another reader has done this on Roatán, Honduras), or a design consulting firm (helping other expats decorate their new homes).

You could service the local tourist trade with a restaurant, a bar, a bakery, a guesthouse, or agĂ®te…

Setting up an operation in another country takes time and some start-up capital. (On the other hand, starting a local retail business can be a great way to connect with your new community while filling a local market niche.)

If a bricks and mortar operation (and all the hassles that go along with one), doesn’t interest you, go virtual. Teach long distance over the internet. Consult. Coach. Process forms for a bank or a tax agency long distance. I know people doing every one of these things right now to earn an income in places where they decided they wanted to live but then realized they couldn’t quite afford.

You could also earn your way around the world as a travel writer, a copywriter, a photographer…

Or maybe start a franchise.

When we moved to Panama City, one of Lief’s first thoughts was, “Let’s open a Taco Bell!”

Lief likes Taco Bell. There wasn’t one in Panama City when we arrived on the scene. So Lief began looking into franchise opportunities with the king of fast taco food… only to discover that, in fact, the franchise for Panama had been purchased and the first Taco Bell was to open soon.

It did. Today there are at least six across Panama City, all doing well as far as we can tell. Certainly, Lief does his part to keep the taco revenues flowing.

Sincerely,

Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher,Overseas Opportunity Letter

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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