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Plus: I Want My Money Back! Checklist For Buying An Investment Property Why Isn’t Cuenca, Ecuador On Your List? I’ve written often about “currency discounts,” that is, the reduction in property prices that dollar holders have realized these past few years as a result of the strengthening dollar. Today I’m telling you that the trend […]
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Three Sites You Should Be Using To Market Your Overseas Rental Plus: “How Do I Sell My Agro-Investment?” Shipping Household Items Abroad And Banking In Uruguay As an overseas property owner looking for income, you need to pay attention to how your property is being marketed—this is critical to the success of your rental property. Specifically,
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Obtain European Residency With A Chance To Profit In Portugal Plus: A Potentially Great Path-Of-Progress Buy Obtaining residency in a foreign country is one of the most important benefits of buying real estate abroad. I write frequently about obtaining residency through property purchase, and the examples of good programs are almost always in Latin America.
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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: “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: 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: Best Place For Golf And Renovating A Property Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past several months, you’re probably aware that the U.S. dollar is doing quite well. This has caused overseas property buyers to spring into action, seeking currency bargains in places like Colombia, Chile, Europe, and Mexico. But what
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“I’ll Assume You Have No Clue…” Readers Speak Out Aug. 25, 2015 Medellín, Colombia Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, As of today, I have 99 pages of reader questions—of which, some 40 are unanswered. So I’m going to hand this issue over to the readers of Overseas Property Alert. This is a good way to
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Plus: Options For Financing Abroad I missed out on the Great Recession. In fact, since I moved abroad in 2001, those recession years actually produced my highest income. My home in Punta del Este, Uruguay, jumped in value during the U.S. housing crash, as did our beach house in Brazil. My Brazilian reais jumped almost
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Plus: Make Sure You Don’t Retain A State Tax Burden Abroad June 23, 2015 Medellín, Colombia Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, You’ve been hearing a lot about rental returns lately. Over the past few years, it’s where property investors have been putting most of their attention. And along with this investment shift (from capital gains
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