Plus: I Thought You Said You’d Never Invest In Brazil I got an email comment this week from a guy, also named Lee, in California: I was surprised to read the quote from Lee Harrison in Valentine Fouché’s article about Medellín: “Medellín… has the same diverse natural beauty as Ecuador but (and this has become […]
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Plus: Holding Real Estate In A Roth IRA… And Finding Paradise In Mexico As a real estate investor seeking out property deals in different countries around the world, one of the things that I pay a lot of attention to is the performance of the currency in the market where I’m considering investing. While a
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Plus: “How About The Risks Involved With That 17% Return?” You don’t make money when you sell a piece of real estate, but when you buy it. Before making any property purchase anywhere, you want to feel comfortable about the basic fundamentals. First, that you’re getting a good value… Second, that you’re buying into a
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Plus: Santa Cruz, Bolivia, And Trump Tower We’ve all heard the old axiom: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And it seems like a good rule to keep in mind whenever you see a super deal being offered. But I don’t think of it that way. I’d rather say that
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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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