This morning, Lief and I took to the stage in the meeting rooms of the Playa Bonita Beach Resort just outside Panama City to welcome a couple of hundred folks to sunny Panama with two important agendas in mind to frame our conversations over the coming three days…
First, we intend to share all the practical information, collective experience, and hard-won wisdom we and our assembled experts have acquired over a combined many decades of global property investing experience with the specific objective of arming the crowd in the room with everything they need to know to be able to process, filter, consider, and vet a potential overseas property purchase.
It has never made more sense to own real estate overseas than it does right now. The advantages in today’s world are compelling.
Real estate is a hard asset that can appreciate in value while earning cash flow.
That’s true of real estate anywhere. However, real estate in another country is also an investment in your lifestyle.
Buying a piece of property in another country means spending time in that country. The implications of that reality for your future are unpredictable, unimaginable, and adventure-filled.
That is, investing in foreign real estate translates to the first step to reinventing your life.
At the same time, investing in foreign real estate comes with complications, frustrations, and potential pitfalls. This isn’t like buying a stock.
Thus our focus on education in the room this week in Panama City.
We’re staging a series of panel discussions to address, with the help of 36 seasoned property investing veterans, the fundamentals of making a smart, efficient buy.
Things like:
- The round-trip costs of buying… and eventually selling…
- Finding the best rental and property manager for the market…
- Moving money across borders in this post-FATCA, anti-money-laundering era…
- Deciding when to take title in your own name and when to take title in a corporation…
- Where you can arrange mortgage financing…
- How to negotiate for seller financing…
- How much you should pay for rental management… HOA fees… and a holding structure…
- Restrictions on foreign ownership of property…
- When a property investment can lead to residency and even second citizenship…
- How to figure comps without the help of a Multiple Listing Service…
- How to confirm clear and clean title…
- How to project your rental return…
Our second objective while convened this week at the lovely Playa Bonita Beach Resort just outside Panama City?
To present a fully diversified mix of current property investment opportunities in the world’s most appealing markets right now… with a focus on investing for cash flow.
Here’s a sampler of the profit plays we’ll be showcasing over the coming three days:
- Turn-key organic agricultural investment in Panama with annualized returns of 16% per year…
- Beachfront lots on the coast of Brazil for as little as US$9,900…
- Timber investments in Colombia, Panama, and Nicaragua… a key to legacy wealth… and, in some cases, a residency visa…
- Turn-key, off-grid homes in Belize for as little as US$69,000, all in…
- Turn-key resort rentals in Panama, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Belize with the potential to earn as much as 14% per year…
- Opportunities to profit from the fast-expanding middle classes in Colombia, Brazil, and Panama… including one chance to earn 22% in year one…
- Turn-key organic agricultural investment in Thailand returning a cash flow from the first year…
- Plus specific options for taking a position in the markets recovering from down (Portugal) or crisis (Argentina) economies…
Passive income (cash flow) is the key to financial freedom.
Indeed, I’d say it’s the key to freedom, period.
In Panama City this week, we’ll look closely at 26 specific options for earning passive cash flow overseas.
Make a list of the places where you’d like to be able to spend time.
What if you had cash flowing in those places… in the local currencies… accumulating in local bank accounts…
It’d be like having a private vault of earnings in each location… growing month by month… awaiting your return.
You show up… stop at a local ATM on your way out of the airport… and withdraw cash, in the local currency, to cover your expenses while you’re in town.
No currency risk… no exchange fee… no worries about getting money where you need it, when you need it.
It’s always where you need it… just waiting for you.
That’s freedom.
Kathleen Peddicord
