We live here in the winter, enjoy our mountain farm in North Carolina in the summer, but depend on neither for our welfare. Technology has opened the world for small businesses and we take advantage of this. The world is our marketplace and having customers in 82 countries brings us great independence. The sun always shines somewhere and we can choose where to place our efforts and assets when politicians or marketplaces where we live go bad.

Merri and I have the ultimate sovereignty by earning income wherever we go. This article shares one easy, effective global business idea of offering tax lien services. Almost anyone can profit from providing them. And this is just one business idea. There are a virtually unlimited number of other ones. 

Tax lien certificates are especially suited for international business because they contain qualities that overseas investors desire. These liens attract wealthy investors that give you a source of income as you meet the crème de la crème of society wherever you go.

Tax lien certificates are issued by U.S. county governments, which generate their revenues from property tax. If property owners don’t pay their tax, then county revenues fall.

Three qualities make these certificates especially attractive abroad.

First, tax liens are safe. The guarantee supercedes all other types of liens, including mortgages, IRS liens, etc. Property cannot be sold until the tax and penalty are paid. 

Second, tax liens pay high returns. Interest charges vary from state to state, but some states charge as much as 25%, which in some cases can be earned in as little as one day!

This makes tax lien services perfect to offer abroad. Even after paying your service fee, international investors make higher returns with greater safety than they would in stocks and bonds. And the whole process is so complicated that they cannot do it without you! The cost of their travel to the United States, regular inspections and management of the process costs more than your fee.

Another reason tax lien services are perfect to offer abroad is because you are not offering an investment. Many countries have a myriad of regulations relating to securities and investments.  You must be careful not to violate these laws in the countries where you do business.  So,  instead of selling the tax liens themselves,  you sell information and services,  offering correspondence courses and seminars about tax liens.

Investors never make investments with you or your firm. They always (often with your help) make investments directly with a U.S. county government. They are also always repaid directly from that same U.S. county government (but they can assign a portion of their profits to you for your services). Selling courses, seminars and business services has generated streams of income all over the world for my wife and me.