When you buy property abroad, you can be sure of one thing: many of the procedures, methods, requirements, and taxes are different than at home. Laws, customs, and traditions all vary from country to country--and sometimes even within the same country. Regardless of whether you are keeping your property exclusively for your own use or putting it on the local rental market, there are certain obligations that you, the property owner, must fulfill.
Not everyone who moves overseas has a particular country in mind. Kiana Delamare and John Pugsley live aboard their 50-foot sloop (Eris Island), sailing from port to port in the Caribbean. This is a little of their story.
Detailed in this report are 33 International Living favorites…everything from the best place in Italy to shop for red lingerie to where to go for the best pastry in all of France...
You've heard it before…and if you've traveled much internationally, you know it to be true. If you at least try to speak the local language, you will be treated with much more respect than someone who doesn't make the effort.
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