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More and more young executive types are receiving inheritances and/or cashing out stock options to re-invest the money elsewhere. No, it’s not into the stock market, but into their future retirement homes.
“But real-estate agents and financial planners around the country say they’re increasingly assisting younger buyers spending $100,000 to $500,000 for a house to [...]

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If you haven’t heard of the website Travelfish, you need to get familiar with them if you are going to Southeast Asia. Their site is a fantastic resource giving you detailed reviews of cheap hotels and guesthouses, transportation info, and the latest scoop [...]

As evolved as we humans have become, in general we still let our hard-wired instincts take over when deciding what’s risky or scary. The 24-hour news channels and local TV networks are happy to play along. Nowhere is this more true than with foreign travel, where the perception of risk based on some long-ago incident [...]

Why a photo of three Imperial beers and one small bottle of 7-year rum? Because in a Costa Rican supermarket, these are roughly the same price. One beer in a store is close to $1 and a six-pack is just six times $1, making a nondescript Costa Rican lager about the same price as a [...]

  
I get asked a lot about Costa Rica, but my answer has always been that it’s not all that cheap. In many respects, the whole country is on par with Mexican beach resorts and Ambergris Caye in Belize. Here’s a rundown on specifics though.
Average local lunch: $3 to $7, plus 27 percent tax and service charge
Hostel [...]

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Greetings from Costa Rica. It´s May here, the beginning of “Green Season” as the tourism people insist on calling it. Rainy season in normal parlance. That´s been okay though, since everything is indeed lush and the rain helps clear the clouds over Arenal Volcano, thus this sweet view. Last night, from the [...]

A few months back a guy contacted me about a book he had coming out called The 4-Hour Workweek. I get stacks of books from reviewers, but this one sounded different. Boy was it. I devoured it in a few days and made me think long and hard about future directions in my life. Apparently [...]

A while back I got interviewed for this site called India Travel Insights and it has a great collection of short discussions about the state of travel in India. There are some major changes going on in India that I’ve commented a bit about on this blog before. The IT side of their economy is [...]

A report out last week from the International Air Transport Association for 2006 says that flying in Russia is a staggering 13 times more dangerous than the global average. The scary thing is, this was their best showing yet!
Major global accidents fell to 77 from 111 in 2005, which considering the millions of flights that [...]

Let me first take the time to define what a wholesale list is to me as a real estate investor. A real estate wholesaler is someone who sells property to other investors without dealing with the general public like one would normally sell a investment property. Of course [...]