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Author: Lief Simon

18 Aug
white building with the view of ocean beach with trees and boat

How To Get Started In Overseas Real Estate

How do you get started investing in real estate overseas? To borrow a page from Nike’s playbook… You just do it. You take the plunge. You can’t wait until you’re fully prepared and you know everything. Neither of those things will ever be true, and no matter how many overseas property investments you make, you’ll [...]
14 Aug

How Many Citizenships Can You Have

How many citizenships can one person have at the same time? This is a question I often get at events like my Offshore Wealth Summit. I’ve done various calculations over the years. Being born with multiple citizenships is the easiest way to get them… and also the least likely for most people. Our son was [...]
28 Jul
Beautiful sunny greek village town white house and harbor view to the aegean blue sea with crystal clear water and fishing boats cruising yacht white houses, Ikaria Island, Evdilos, Sporade, Greece

How To Build The Perfect Portfolio

How do you define “being wealthy”? An offshore attorney I met years ago defined being wealthy as having enough passive income to cover all your monthly expenses. That’s an easy answer, but not as easy a goal to achieve… Rental income can be the perfect passive income… but unfortunately, most U.S. investment professionals don’t know [...]
23 Jul
Aerial view of Encamp, Andorra

What Happens When Banks Fail

It looked like 2023 was about to become another 2008. History repeating itself, fifteen years later… You probably watched the news at the time… After three banks collapsed in one week in America—including the second and third-largest banking failures in U.S. history (Silicon Valley Bank and Signature)—the FDIC and the Biden administration stepped in, guaranteeing [...]
23 Jul
Caribbean, island of Nevis

An Effective Way To Protect Your Assets

I read once about a California couple who found one thousand four hundred $20 gold coins from the mid-1800s buried on their property. The store was estimated to be worth as much as $10 million due to the rarity and quality of some of the coins. The value of the gold alone was about $2 […]

21 Jul
15th-century Bunratty castle in Co. Clare, Ireland

A Second Citizenship Blunder

My family and I moved from the United States to Ireland many years ago for personal and business reasons. At the time, I hadn’t even considered the concept of obtaining a second citizenship. In fact, it wasn’t until after my son Jackson was born that the idea of a second citizenship crossed my mind. Jackson [...]
10 Jul
Path to the beach on the island of Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The Key To A Successful Back-Up Plan

I don’t need to remind you of the challenges of our time in history. Cable news has got that beat covered. And in any case, I’m about finding opportunity (because I believe it can always be found) and organizing your life so you can enjoy what the world has to offer… even if you have [...]
09 Jul
Great Blasket Island In Ireland

How A DNA Test Led To An Irish Passport

Baby Thomas James Delehanty arrived into the world in 1963 Arizona. A couple months later, having been adopted, he became John Edward Portmann. In 2019, he decided to research his family tree. Although he had long known he was adopted, he was shocked when the DNA test he took revealed his ancestry to be 100% […]

03 Jul
How To Negotiate Overseas

How To Negotiate Overseas

How To Negotiate Overseas: Buying real estate overseas is nothing like buying real estate in North America. So it’s best to go into this process with realistic expectations. Here are some of the major differences that you should expect when buying real estate overseas:  Language barriers. It’s likely that you will encounter a language barrier […]

19 Jun
Investing in Real Estate for Retirement

Investing in Real Estate for Retirement: Aliens, Volcanoes, And Exit Strategies

Investing in Real Estate for Retirement: Just a quick note this morning as I’ve got a room full of people waiting for me to kick off day two of my International Property SummitLINKVP down here in Panama City. We started yesterday with an overview of how to launch your global property portfolio… choosing the right […]