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Smart ~ Offshore Real Estate
Buying smart
is not rocket science, especially when it comes to real estate. In the
case of Rio de Janeiro you must ask yourself if you'd like to live there,
if you'd like to have a winter home there, or if there is a function for
the property beyond the idea of making a profit on it. That is to
say, if the property is something you'd like to have in any event, and
if you can clearly state that you are prepared to 'not' make a profit on
it, then it is pretty hard to go wrong.
It goes without
saying that you should never invest your life savings into any investment,
no matter how secure it looks. Many of us have a disproportionate
amount of our entire worth wrapped up in real estate, because in addition
to being an investment it is also something more. |
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both practical and emotional reasons to purchase real estate. To many of
us a family house is much more than just a piece of real estate, it is
a home with a capital ‘H’.
It is something
personal that we make a part of ourselves. True, it is also a combination
of other factors: a major investment, a sort of savings program, a tax
shelter and a large part of our retirement insurance.
It is quite
easy to create a 'no lose' situation.
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about offshore real estate, and I think I am, then you will almost triple
your money on your investment into well-selected offshore real estate.
If I am wrong, which is always possible, then you will end up with a piece
of real estate that you could not have afforded inside the USA, and you
will have purchased it at a very good price. I should point out that
for many years I worked in real estate as a 'finder' for large institutional
buyers. In all the years I have been investing in real estate I have never
lost a penny in real estate and in most cases I doubled and tripled my
money.
Offshore
Real Estate ? The Internet
Most of the
real estate I've seen listed on the internet is overpriced, especially
the offshore real estate. I suspect that this so because the realtor
has an incentive to sell larger more expensive properties. |
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is that those selling resort property appealing to foreign buyers know
that the foreign buyers do not have first hand knowledge of local real
estate prices. There are more goofy real estate agents from Beverly Hills
selling real estate in Costa Rica then there are species of birds. I've
written about this phenomenon in other articles and I have often pointed
out that when buying overseas one needs to go and spend some time looking
at the market. There are tons of bargains out there, I can assure
you of that from first hand experience. I didn't shop for real estate
in Rio over the internet, I went there and pounded the pavement.
It is for these reason that we've created an international real estate
market place here on EscapeArtist.com, so that buyers can contact sellers
directly, and so that non-institutional sellers can list their properties
without having to use over-priced real estate companies.
The internet
allows us to gain vast amounts of information instantly, while that
is agreeable, it can also be misleading. We spend our time here at
EscapeArtist.com attempting to correct and clarify the huge body of poor
and misleading information on living overseas for those wishing to live
overseas. The internet can set us free of the constraints of one
nation, but not everything on it gives a clear impression or accurate description
of the real world. |
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most important virture in my view is that the internet allows you to make
a living from anywhere, whether you chose to use it to merchandise products
? services, or to telecommute from afar.
I firmly believe
that overseas real estate is the best investment you can make in the present
market. By buying real estate overseas, and living overseas it is
possible to place yourself in a situation where you can live tax free,
run a company from a desirable location, (such as a beach front or a
mountain top,) and live the kind of life you want to live, along with
an international lifestyle of options. It is no longer required for anyone
to imagine that we live in a global economy, because imagination has nothing
to do with it. We live in a world with a global economy. The cultural,
economic and strategic interests of nations no longer neatly stop at a
line drawn in the sand... nor do they any longer precisely overlap. The
nation-state has ended. |
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Is Rio de
Janeiro For You?
It was brought
to my attention by a Brazilian friend that Rio's crime problems have been
much alleviated in most of the better areas. It was my experience
that this is in fact true. I wandered around Rio at all hours of
the day and night and felt as safe as I do in Panama City, which is to
say, many times safer than I do in many, if not most of the cities in the
USA. I think that Rio de Janeiro is a wonderful place to live, whether
you choose to live there part time as I intend to do, or full time as a
permanent residential location. If Rio sounds good to you, then you
need to take a trip there and find out what it's all about and if it's
right for you.
Much of what
you find about Rio de Janeiro on the internet is out of date, or childishly
irrelevant. With that said, I must make clear that I certainly don't think
that Rio is for everyone. I won't pretend that Rio is as safe as say, Bocas
del Toro in Panama. But if you like city life you're not going to
find it in Bocas. You can roughly compare Rio with New York City and Bocas
del Toro with a bargain-basement Bahamas. If you'd like to live in
the Bahamas, but you are not a billionaire then Bocas would be your choice,
and a very good one at that. If you'd like to live in New York City
and you don't mind the noise and hassles of big city life then you should
consider Rio. The hectic pace of Rio de Janeiro will not appeal to
everyone, just as the hectic pace of New York City does not appeal to everyone.
A girl from
Argentina once mentioned to me that living in Rio de Janeiro was like living
in New York City on the beach. "You don't want to live in
New York City on the beach, do you?" she asked me.
"Yes," I replied,
"I certainly do." |
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