Buying Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow (And A Better Life)

4Cash Flow from Property Overseas Can Make You Rich (While Creating Diversification, Asset Protection, and a Legacy for Your Heirs)

Property is a cornerstone of any long-term wealth strategy and building a real estate investment portfolio anywhere including in the United States can make you rich. However, we've known too many property investors who have lost everything. When this happens, it's usually a result of too much leverage and not enough diversification—investing in just one market, in the United States or overseas, or in only one type of property.

In 2005, we met a young and aggressive investor making hard-money developer loans in Iowa. He was earning 12% and scoffed when we suggested he diversify outside the United States or at least beyond Iowa. Yes, we agreed, it'd be hard to match the 12% net per year, but his portfolio and therefore his returns would be safer long term. The guy lost everything in 2008 when the bottom fell out of the Iowa market and borrowers couldn't repay his loans. We could tell you a dozen versions of that story to do with a dozen nondiversified property investors.

Over the past two-and-a-half decades, we've proven that investing in real estate overseas is a strategy for both generating reliable cash flow and building real wealth. We are confident you can make good or great money this way. We also know that slow and steady wins this race. Don't be tempted to go too big or too far too fast.

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