156: How to Buy Real Estate Overseas in 8 Easy Steps
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In Buying Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow (And A Better Life): Get Started With As Little As $50,000, Kathleen Peddicord and Lief Simon explain how to incorporate an investment in foreign real estate into your portfolio for as little as $50,000. With a lifetime of experience on the subjects of living, retiring, and investing overseas, the authors delve deep into this complex topic. Simply put, this book is a practical guide to buying property overseas as a strategy for earning cash flow to fund your dream retirement.
Buying Real Estate Overseas includes a breadth and depth of information on the world’s best markets for investing in real estate for cash flow. Its up-to-date information about this investment category puts to bed much of the outdated advice and guidance currently available in published materials.
The authors identify several hot, new markets where currency valuations and market conditions make the purchase of real estate an extremely wise investment decision in today’s volatile investment climate.
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Time Stamps:
- 07:58 – How do you get started in buying properties overseas?
- 15:10 – Is it easy to find local banks that are willing to lend you money for properties?
- 20:54 – After you are financed, what is the next step?
- 27:41 – With short term rentals, how do you address property management?
- 30:44 – How do you choose a property?
- 39:38 – What strategies do you use for negotiating on the property?
- 46:16 – How is it best to handle closing on the property?
- 49:04 – What are the ways you can manage your asset?
- 50:42 – Where do you have real estate, and what areas are you interested in?
- 53:50 – How many properties have you owned at a single time?
- 57:59 – What are the best value markets right now?
- 61:11 – Sam and Johnny Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Hey bosses, this week's episode of Invest Like a Boss as presented by Our Crowd. |
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| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:42.2 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey bosses, this is Johnny FD and welcome to episode 156 of The Invest Like a Boss podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm here with Sam Marks. |
| 1:00.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:01.5 | Hey, Johnny, big 156. |
| 1:03.7 | Going to dive into a topic that I love talking about. |
| 1:07.5 | And it's going to be something you love talking about too, Johnny, as soon as you pull the trigger and buy that overseas real estate you know what i don't know if that's actually |
| 1:16.4 | going to happen or not it sounded like uh my five thousand dollar deposit got kicked back by the bank |
| 1:21.8 | so maybe that's a sign not to buy it what is overseas for you now because it's it's it's weird to say right it's like overseas for you now? Because it's weird to say, right? |
| 1:29.8 | It's like overseas for us is anything outside the USA, but the USA is actually where we spend |
| 1:34.5 | the least amount of our time. |
| 1:36.2 | It's just where we have our citizenship still. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:40.6 | So this, guys, this is a follow up to episode 151, which is about location arbitrage. |
| 1:46.2 | A lot of people had questions about buying the actual property. |
| 1:50.3 | Like, you know, we now we know, you know, Sam Johnny, we know the benefits, tax breaks, |
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