If you long to live a laidback life ruled by sunshine, sea, and evening sundowners with friends, then a tropical island retirement could be just the ticket to your dream lifestyle. On “island time” tropics-dwelling expats report, you avoid the stresses of modern living. Mornings are for strolling along sugar-sand beaches, where turquoise-hued waters lap on shore.
“My little house in the middle of the jungle is serene and simple. I have mango and tamarind trees in my yard and more birds than I can count,” says expat Carol Kandell, 49, a California native who’s lived full-time on the idyllic tropical island of Koh Samui, Thailand, for the past three years. “The beach is less than a five-minute motorcycle ride from my house, and I love to swim and sip a fresh coconut with a good book on sunny days.”
In the right spots overseas, as little as $1,485 a month can bankroll a good life. This means that you can retire comfortably on a Social Security check alone. Retire sooner. Spend less. Live better. That’s the end goal. And there’s no question: You can do it. You can do it in all sorts of beautiful, welcoming, good-weather communities that dot the globe from Latin America to Southeast Asia to Europe.
It’s a dream that’s out of reach for most folks in the U.S. and Canada. Coastal properties with ocean views in areas like Cape Cod, Vancouver, Florida’s Gulf coast, or southern California are priced in the millions. Fortunately, in many parts of the world, everyday people are not priced out of the ocean-view market.
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In this special report we take a look at three very special areas of Nicaragua—a colonial city, a colorful beach location and a historic town. And we reveal the need-to-know details about these popular expat destinations: Granada, San Juan del Sur and León. You’ll hear from real estate guru, Ronan McMahon, who will give you his evaluation of these three opportunity rich locations and how he thinks you can reap big yields.
International real estate scout, Ronan McMahon, drills down into the three areas of Nicaragua that offer some of the best value on real estate—whether you’re looking to purchase a home or an investment property. If you’re in the market for a colonial home that you can fix up and make your own, or a patch of stunning virgin beachfront land, you’ll discover exactly where to find your ideal piece of real estate in this report—and with pricing from as little as $70,000.
Perhaps you'd like to retire to a lakeside community, with year-round heavenly weather? We'll show you a place so beautiful it regularly draws comparisons with Lake Tahoe—albeit without the price-tag. If city living is more your thing, we've got several choices you might like—including one tropical escape where you can enjoy all the comforts of cosmopolitan life, including great shopping and world-class dining—but for less than you'd pay back home, and much more... From Latin America to Europe to Southeast Asia—you have great options for good-value living overseas. We reveal destinations that are both incredibly beautiful and unbelievably inexpensive. Many of them are in locales that will knock your socks off…where a couple could live well for $2,500 a month—or less.
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