Plus: Mazatlán Versus Puerto Vallarta The ability to buy property with an IRA or a 401k was a huge breakthrough for investors seeking opportunities overseas. It has allowed people to “unleash” their retirement plans and give them access to the full potential of the world’s opportunities. These unusual retirement-plan investments are made with what we […]
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Plus: Colombia Versus The Dominican Republic And Taxing Pensions Expats are expanding their horizons in the Medellín valley and turning it into a broad, well-rounded destination with plenty of varied options. Granted, Medellín’s long-trendy El Poblado neighborhood is still the big draw for tourists, business travelers, and expats alike. But over the past few years,
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Plus: Beaches, Climate, Expat Community, Restaurants, And Sex “Seas Are Rising At Fastest Rate In Last 28 Centuries” In case you missed it, this was a page-one headline in the New York Times last week. The article reported on new statistics that quantify the current sea level rise and refine previous disaster predictions. Current models
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Plus: Getting The “Real” Story On Belize “I can’t believe this place has stayed off the radar,” said my friend Lou… for the third time in as many days. We were having dinner in an open-air French restaurant in Medellín’s Zona Rosa, the city’s upscale dining and shopping area. Lou lives on Manhattan’s Upper West
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Plus: A Beach Property For US$75K? If you’d like to see a quick, efficient snapshot of what’s happening with Latin American property prices, then you’ve come to the right place. Each year, I take a snapshot of property costs from 19 key markets around the region. I use this data as a means of comparing
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Plus: “How Can You Recommend This Guy?” This week I’m going to focus in on the most popular of all overseas properties: beaches. Mountain lifestyles and city living are popular, to be sure… but beaches draw people to a full-time or part-time life abroad more reliably than anything else. Thanks to today’s volatile (and favorable)
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Plus: “I Beg To Differ!” Mazatlán draws people to its shores for a lot of reasons, and I’ve been focusing mostly on the properties and the beaches, since the beaches are the big attraction here. But I realized while talking to a few expats yesterday that many people come here for reasons other than the
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Plus: Where To Invest US$100k… And Prejudice Against Latinos In Ecuador The beachfront real estate market in Mazatlán has an impressive diversity that will satisfy the taste of most anyone who is shopping for beachfront real estate. I’ve been here in Mazatlán for a month now and I’m still sorting out the different lifestyle options
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Plus: Crime In Mazatlán… And Where To Settle In Brazil I’ve been here in Mazatlán looking at houses and condos since mid-December. And as usual, I’m struggling to find the perfect property. I have two problems that continue to slow me down when looking at real estate abroad. Counterintuitively, it’s actually harder to pick a
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Plus: Investments That Qualify For Residency I’ve been writing for the past few weeks from Mazatlán, Mexico, and have fallen into a pleasant routine here. Each day starts with a morning walk along the beach at sunrise (fellow dog owners will understand why I’m out there so early), followed by a day of exploring the
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