SECTION ONE - EXOTIC REAL ESTATE  Lanzarote Lowdown - Real Estate Investment in the Canary Islands By Nick Ball Lanzarote Lowdown - Real Estate Investment in the Canary Islands - Lanzarote is perennially popular with overseas property investors. As year round temperatures of 21c plus create a twelve month rental calendar – plus a ready made holiday lets market. Over 1 million tourists visited Lanzarote from Britain and Ireland alone during 2006.  Add lower mortgage rates, stir in annual capital growth rates of 9% and you have the perfect recipe for profit.    Luxury Ocean Residences in Costa Rica - Canto Ballena By Sean McGraw Luxury Ocean Residences in Costa Rica - Canto Ballena - A place that merits further exploration, a place you’ll want to share with your friends and family, with your children, with your grandchildren.    Real Estate in Italy - Me And The Mancinis By Rebecca Coombes Real Estate in Italy - Me And The Mancinis - To many British buyers Italy represents an irresistible opportunity to buy a historic property in a beautiful area for very little initial outlay but our story illustrates just how complicated the whole process can be once the sale has gone through.    The Evolution of Real Estate Investing By Axiom Realty Capital The Evolution of Real Estate Investing - The past decade has seen a global shift of small and large scale investors revising their investment strategies from bits and bytes to something more concrete, real estate.  This is largely, if not entirely, down to the internet tech stock crash.  The result was one of the largest worldwide real estate booms in history.    Campeche, Mexico: The Gulf's Sleeping Beauty Awakes By Suzan Haskins Campeche, Mexico: The Gulf's Sleeping Beauty Awakes - Ten years ago, locals say, they couldn't even give away their big, rambling properties in Campeche's city center and historic barrios. Now that these properties are World Heritage, however, the story is different. There are no more bargain-basement deals, and many owners are holding onto properties, waiting for prices to rise.   International Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings International Properties With Color Photos International Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings - See this month's featured real estate listings - Real estate in New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Croatia, Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, and from around the world. Each month we feature new properties in our featured listings, colored photographs and access to our entire database of properties from around the world. Find your dream property and plan your escape.   If you’re reading this you have probably daydreamed of leaving the mainland and living the “island life.”  What’s stopping you from giving up the daily grind and starting over in an exotic destination?  Do you have concerns about investing in a risky foreign market?  Are you unsure of how you’d support yourself financially?  Are you unwilling to give up the modern conveniences you are accustomed to?  If you’ve held back for any of these reasons, the United States Virgin Islands may be the destination you’ve been dreaming about.  Shawn Rohde’s thorough, info-filled eBook is the ideal guide to help you make that dream a reality. Click Here to get the report. INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OVERSEAS RELOCATION Christopher Howard´s Living and Investing in the new Cuba - Christopher Howard´s Living and Investing in the new Cuba - This guide offers assistance to anyone seeking a safe, affordable place to live outside of the United States and Canada.  It contains all of the ins and outs, dos and don´ts, rules of thumb, secret insider information and invaluable data about all aspects of living in Cuba.  It shows you how to stay busy, where to reside, how to learn Spanish, where to find companionship.  It provides you with novel, sure-fire ideas for starting businesses and, best of all, this eBook will give you a head start before you even move to Cuba. Discover China - Discover China - China is a fascinating country that offers a wealth of opportunity for visitors, investors and potential residents. Of course there are plenty of options all over the world, so why China? Well, anyone can observe that the world’s economy is shifting and the Chinese dragon is on the rise. It is an exciting place to be right now that is full of new horizons.  Eluding Capture: Escape to Bariloche, Argentina - Eluding Capture: Escape to Bariloche, Argentina -  I get asked all the time why I moved to Argentina and I always think of that first moment on the shores of that magnificent lake, staring at the surrounding mountains and I just knew this was the place… In this book you will find our discoveries. You’ll learn what you might want to try and what you might want to avoid as you plan your escape to this beautiful place.  A Survivor´s Guide To Living In Ireland - A Survivor´s Guide To Living In Ireland - Over 60,000 former U.S. citizens now call Ireland home. Don't move to Ireland without reading this report. If you´ve ever considered telling the boss to take a hike, then sell everything and load yourself onto the nearest transport in hopes of moving to the green island of Ireland, this is the book for you. Originally from Chicago, American Tom Richards did exactly what you might be dreaming of doing: in 1982, he sold up the farm, loaded his wife and first-born child onto a draughty charter plane, and moved to Ireland. He´s lived there ever since. In this humorously written book, Richards gives you the benefit of his mistakes, misfortunes, and eventual successes while telling you exactly what to expect and how to survive if you too decide to move to this country.

Issue Number Thirty One August 2007 See This Month's International Real Estate Marketplace Featured Listings

Is Bulgaria Still on the Investor’s Radar? By Jolis Eltilib Is Bulgaria Still on the Investor’s Radar? - In the last 18 months property prices in Bulgaria increased more than 25% and in certain cases real estate value increased by 50%. Now, after this initial big jump, the real estate market has taken a slower but steady trend of going upward.   The Casey Files - Kuwait Breaks the Peg By David Galland The Casey Files - Kuwait Breaks the Peg - Years ago, I recollect hearing a successful currency speculator say that if you wanted to know what a government is going to do with its currency, listen to what they say they aren't going to do… then expect the opposite.

The Most Romantic Job in the World  By Steenie Harvey The Most Romantic Job in the World - December 1988. No job, no money, and seemingly no prospects. Maybe you’d rate delving around an organic vegetable plot in western Ireland as a fantastic  prospect, but not me.  Today. The most glamorous job in the world, enough money to give me a very comfortable lifestyle, and the prospect (no, the certainty) of expenses-paid trips to China, Estonia, Barcelona, Malaysia and the Cape Verde Islands.    Making Money Overseas - Writing eBooks For EscapeArtist.com By EscapeArtist.com Making Money Overseas - Writing eBooks and Reports For EscapeArtist.com - Yes, you can make money writing eBooks and reports for us, good money. In fact you can make enough money to live on overseas. We are now seeking eBook reports on almost any subject; not just on expatriate issues. We have had so much success with our eBooks that we have decided to expand our library to include more subjects - - subjects that are important even if they are not directly related to expatriate issues. By EscapeArtist.com ....... INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OVERSEAS MONEY MAKERS Get a Job on a Luxury Cruise Ship - Quickly & Easily! -Get a Cruise Ship Job! - Click Here "Discover how you can Travel to the World's Most Exotic Places...having the Best Time of Your Life...and Get Paid for it!" - “Now is the best time in history to get a job on a cruise ship” - Get Paid to Travel the World Having the Best Time of Your Life! - “It’s almost the perfect job!” - Careers In Yachting - A Unique Lifestyle Career - A Special Report -  How To Get A Yachting Job - Where to go to look for a yachting job. • Who to talk to get it. • Where to stay while searching for employment. • How to make ends meet until you find a job. • About and how to deal with crew agencies. • Extremely effective means of obtaining employment outside of agencies. • The ins and outs of interviewing. • The pros and cons of working on a charter yacht versus a private yacht. • Crewing as a couple. • Vital tips that will put you ahead of the pack. • Crucial mistakes not to make and much, much more. The Portable Professional - Earn A Living Worldwide - The Portable Professional - Earn A Living Worldwide - It is now possible to make a living from anywhere you can log on.  The technology is there and the opportunities are there.  Mark McMahon has written an eye-opening report on how to make a living worldwide.  Earn US Dollars and/or EUROS from wherever you are on the planet.  The options are limitless and the time is now.  Learn more about how to break free - learn how you can live your life like it belongs to you - Live Where You Want To Live! ~ Live How You Want To Live! ~ And Make Money Doing It! -

Can Liberty Survive Big Government, Big Spending and Big Mud Slinging?   By Robert Bauman, JD Can Liberty Survive Big Government, Big Spending and Big Mud Slinging? - Recently, our Chairman and a founder of The Sovereign Society, John Pugsley, waxed poetically on the sad state of freedom in America. As always, I enjoyed hearing his thoughts as he reflected on a theme that also concerns me: The cancerous growth of the American Empire. . Your computer, software, databases, files, applications, systems software and computer networks are all part of your information technology (IT) assets.  Like most other public and private organizations, you and your company are extremely dependent upon IT and would find it impractical if not almost impossible to function without it.  Any temporary or extended loss to any portion of these IT assets could have tremendous impact on your company’s financial and economic stability and to your own security. This eBook details 18 Steps for Protection of Your Information Assets as part of a plan to ensure the protection and recovery of your vital information assets. The reality is that because you depend on crucial IT assets, you cannot risk being without such a plan. Click Here to get the report. . INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ON OFFSHORE INVESTING Retirement Planning for Offshore Living - The advantages of outsourcing your retirement have never been better! Why not start a second "dream" career, or retire in a low cost, tropical country? Spend less than 25% of your present monthly budget while maintaining or even enhancing your lifestyle.  Say "goodbye" to your financial planner and her "advice" that you must accumulate at least $1,000,000 or more in liquid assets before you retire or leave your "day job". "Retirement Planning for Offshore Living" will become your personal coach and roadmap to "offshore living". Use the standards provided to identify, compare and analyze your optimal country and retirement or second career haven.

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Did you know that 150,000 Americans now travel abroad every year for affordable, high-quality health care?  From Thailand’s American-accredited Bumrungrad hospital to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Clinic to Johns Hopkins International, health travelers now have a full array of the world’s safest, best choices in healthcare facilities and physicians.  Now available to assist with this growing movement, Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism.  It’s also a first-rate manual for overseas travel—impartial, extensively researched, and filled with authoritative and accessible advice—carefully culled from hundreds of resources here and abroad.  Medical Tourism is a booming industry and a familiar practice for many Europeans, yet it is just becoming known to Americans.  Patients Beyond Borders gives U.S. citizens a leg up with well-researched, easy to understand information, compiled in a friendly accessible format - Stephanie Sulger, RN, MS Medical Tours International Whether you’re seeking dental work, heart surgery, orthopedics, cosmetic surgery, neurosurgery, or LASIK eye repair, Patients Beyond Borders is your best way to become an informed health traveler and get started on your health travel journey.  Patients Beyond Borders is absolutely the most thorough and useful guide to health travel for Americans and it’s available to order right now at your fingertips.

Unique Vacation Rentals in Unique Locations - Vacation Rentals around the world - Themes - Categories, Search Enhanced - Color Photos - Find the kind of vacation rentals that are hard to find -  Gain ideas by searching the numerous vacation rental listings - Do you want to rent a castle - a house over water - a mountain cabin - an island hideaway - an Irish cottage - an apartment in Rio de Janeiro - a ranch house in Argentina - a coffee plantation in Costa Rica - beach house in Belize -  EscapeArtist Vacation Rentals -  How To Get a First Class Seat -- For Less -- On Most Every Flight You Take – Free Report  AWAI Travel Division How To Get a First Class Seat -- For Less -- On Most Every Flight You Take – Free Report - Deals exist, if you know how to find them. In fact, there are 7 insider secrets that will have you flying up front, for less -- secrets that many airline reservationists and travel agents may never tell you. If you plan to fly anywhere in the next 12 months -- whether it’s for business or pleasure -- you need to read this report immediately... while the information is up-to-date. After all, why fly in cramped-up coach... when you could fly in luxury without paying top dollar for it? Click Here to find out how -

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eBooks For Expats

New eBooks available this month:  Relocation guide to Poland - To relocate in Europe: it’s a dream for people all over the world, but can anyone with modest means afford it?   Welcome to the heart of Europe!  Relocation guide to Poland will take you to where you can still enjoy a low cost of living and where you can make a start on your goal of living in Europe.  You may like Poland so much you just might decide to stay there!  In the last few years Poland became very popular among foreigners.  So take a look at this eBook and discover a way to the heart of Europe. Click Here to find out how to get there. South Africa, Offshore Investment Haven? - For those who are seeking prime investment opportunities or for anyone looking for a beautiful and exciting country to settle in, South Africa is an excellent option.  Even if you have never been to South Africa, you have likely have heard a lot about it; two of the most common impressions of South Africa are that it is rife with crime and violence, and that it is one of the most beautiful places on earth.  If you have lived in South Africa in the past, you are probably wondering how well it has transitioned into a multi-racial democracy, and whether it will spiral into corruption and poverty as other African countries did after independence.  Click Here to get the report. Eighteen Steps for Protection of your Information Assets - Your computer, software, databases, files, applications, systems software and computer networks are all part of your information technology (IT) assets.  Like most other public and private organizations, you and your company are extremely dependent upon IT and would find it impractical if not almost impossible to function without it.  Any temporary or extended loss to any portion of these IT assets could have tremendous impact on your company’s financial and economic stability and to your own security.  This eBook details 18 Steps for Protection of Your Information Assets as part of a plan to ensure the protection and recovery of your vital information assets. Click Here to get the report. Living and traveling the Canals of Western Europe and Britain - History lesson, tourist guide and storytelling all rolled into one.  Archie Satterfield’s fascinating account of the birth, death and re-birth of the canals and waterways of Western Europe is compulsive reading.Whether you just enjoy the read, or whether you are considering a canal boat holiday, or perhaps possibly life on a canal boat, this book is an entertaining and resourceful guide.  Covering the history of canals and their current revival in the tourist industry, Archie gives wonderfully vivid accounts of the routes, what to do, where to go, what not to miss and how to buy and operate a canal boat/barge. Click Here to get the report. The Panama Real Estate Report - Just when you thought you understood international real estate, Panama comes along and completely changes the game.  Trend-setting investors of the world have found their new playground in Panama, yet such significant reward comes with considerable risk.Panama is an exciting and rewarding real estate market, and deservedly so. Click Here to get the report. Mexico Magic Video - If you're considering a move to Mexico or just want a summer or winter retreat in what may be the best climate in the world, this video is the best way to explore the charms of Mexico without leaving home! Click Here to get the video. New Titles Available Next Month The Colombia You Haven't Heard About in the News Malbec Diaries - Buying a Vineyard in Argentina Philippines Property Primer The A to Z of Moving Overseas The Pleasure of Life in Baja Sur  eBooks for Expats - International Relocation Reports - Offshore Investment Reports - Reports On Offshore Real Estate, Moving Overseas,  and a wide range of subjects for those seeking to restart their lives overseas.  eBooks are a great idea.  Consider This: If, for example, you are trying to figure out how to move to Bolivia, buy a ranch, get residency and a passport; you won't find a standard book on how to go about accomplishing those ends at your local library.  You will here.  We have hundreds of great eBooks lined up and coming your way.  Our list of titles is growing daily.

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