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 sure they will not always […]
This Is My Personal Freedom Plan For my Offshore Wealth Summit taking place in the W Hotel in Panama City this week, I added a new panel discussion to the agenda: "Creating Your Freedom Plan" I don't need to remind you of the challenges of our age. Cable news has got that beat covered. My job is [...]
How Not To Become A Complaining Drunk In Your New Life Overseas When I ask attendees at conferences what they've got planned after they've made their moves overseas, many tell me they intend to play a lot of golf... or go deep-sea fishing every day. While those activities can be fun... and you could do [...]
Making Money (And Finding Love) Overseas As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate. Yet my overriding mantra is: Diversification, diversification, diversification. It is the key to success both with your investments and your lifestyle. That's why my real estate portfolio is very diversified. It includes agricultural land, raw land, [...]
Cash Flow Is Not An Excuse—How To Earn The Money You Need To Live Wherever You Want I decided in high school that I wanted an international life. Of course, I wouldn't have articulated it that way back then. I'm not sure that, back then, I even knew what “international” meant. What I did know [...]
When It Comes To Rental Yields, This Can Make Or Break You My first rental property was a three-flat apartment building I managed myself in the United States. I lived in one of the apartments and rented out the other two long term and unfurnished. I might have had an empty apartment for a few [...]
Tips For Finding Your Peers When Living Abroad After living overseas for 20 years now, I've lost touch with all of my old friends in the States except one. The main reason I'm able to stay in contact with that one is he lives near Washington, D.C. where we visit at least once a year, [...]
Anyone Buying Into A Cultural Appropriation Argument Is A Moron Earlier this month Kathleen and I traveled with a group of friends to Pamplona, Spain, for the Festival of San Fermín... The annual Running of the Bulls that Mr. Hemingway made so famous. Kathleen reported on our expat adventure in her daily dispatch... and, well, some [...]
Where Shall I Send Your Copy Of My Wife's New Book? Several weeks ago, a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition of my wife's "How To Retire Overseas" book was published by Penguin Random House. It's now on bookstore shelves across America... and, of course, Kathleen and I very much hope you'll want to read it. [...]
As I reported last week, Kathleen and I need visas for China. We’ll be traveling to the country with our son in August to install him in his freshman dorm room at NYU Shanghai. The visa application process proved only mildly complicated. We’re in Europe and elsewhere until we leave for China, so we couldn’t apply […]
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