14 Jan
Agricultural production using aquaponics technology is on the rise… and so is the cost of investing in the opportunity that this fast-growing trend represents. Three years ago, in the course of my ongoing search for cash-flowing real estate opportunities, I identified a specific aquaponics project offering a turnkey option for individual investors projecting returns up […]
03 Jan
Worried About Health Care And Insurance Costs? Don’t Be. This Is Why… Two things Americans obsess over when thinking about traveling and even more so when considering moving outside the United States are health care and health insurance. These are two important considerations, of course, but in the United States right now they’re also political [...]
31 Dec
5 Places To See In 2019 If I’m able to go to one new place in the New Year it will be the city that was once the center of the world, Jerusalem. I like cities with long pasts, and this city has one of the longest. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of “Jerusalem: The Biography,” articulates [...]
27 Dec
6 Top Overseas Property Markets For 2019 As my Global Property Advisor Editor Samantha Russell laid out in her year-end round-up, 2018 has been very good to us global property investors. This past year we've positioned ourselves for profit from townhouses on the coast of Brazil... and long-term care homes in the U.K.... From turnkey rentals in Colombia, Portugal, and the Dominican Republic... [...]
20 Dec
Where I’ll Plant My Money In 2019 And Watch It Grow No matter how big or small your real estate investment portfolio, it should include agriculture. We live in a world with an exploding population and dwindling arable land. We’re looking at more than 9 billion people on this planet by the middle of this [...]
13 Dec
Lief Simon's Personal Failure Plan Preparing for the unknown... That's the principle behind diversification. You can't be sure that any stock pick you make will turn out to be the next Apple or Facebook... so you buy stock in different companies. You can't be sure stocks will always go up (in fact, you can be [...]
10 Dec
What's Really Going On In Paris? We missed the first two weekends of protests in Paris. The weekend they started, Kathleen and I were in Ireland visiting friends. The next weekend we were in the States for Thanksgiving. The third protest Saturday, we were here in the city, but, despite our apartment being just a [...]
06 Dec
The World Is Ending… Where Should You Go? A reader wrote this week to ask where I’d recommend as the ideal destination in a doomsday scenario. Where would qualify as the best place to be in an end-of-the-world situation? The reader specifically referenced a shutdown of global trade. I would want a place where enough [...]
22 Nov
My Personal Bug-Out Plan As the year rounds the corner to its end, Brexit is back in the news. Theresa May battles on. Meantime, the Chinese keep trying to figure out Trump’s next move, and actions by the Saudi government that would have started a world war 100 years ago are still playing out… and, [...]
19 Nov
Up To 24% Per Year For Me… And A Legacy Of Income For My Kids, Too My approach to investing in real estate has evolved since my first real estate purchase when I was 27 years old. For that first investment, I operated according to the principles of OPM—other people’s money. Buying a highly leveraged [...]
