A Little About Us…
We offer real-world, no-nonsense advice for people looking to live, invest, retire, and do business overseas. We pledge to…
- Identify and then showcase for our readers the best options and opportunities in the world today…
- Consider every destination and property market in the context of firsthand experience only…
- Speak directly and pull no punches. We tell you everything you need to know to find success in a given place… warts and all…
- Guarantee your satisfaction. Every product and service we provide is backed by our money-back, no-hassle guarantee…
A Glimpse Inside LIOS…
Meet The Live And Invest Overseas Team
Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Live and Invest Overseas
Editor-In-Chief, Overseas Opportunity Letter
Live and Invest Overseas is the vision of Kathleen Peddicord. Kathleen has covered the live, retire, invest, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world’s foremost authority on these subjects…
Kathleen has traveled to more than 75 countries, established businesses in 7, and invested in property in 21. Thanks to these adventures abroad, Kathleen has been able to assemble an unparalleled network of global contacts, colleagues, friends, experts, resources, expats, and advisors.
Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland… then to Paris, France… and, then to Panama City, Panama. Now, some years later, she, alongside her husband Lief Simon, are able to travel the globe and spend time wherever life takes them.
Kathleen was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the International Living group for 23 years. She moved on from that role in 2007.
Today, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Reports and Forbes and is regularly quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, The Economist, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television and has written innumerable books (including her most recent, “How To Retire Overseas” for Penguin Random House), reports, and essays on where and how you can escape the retirement-tromping economy at home and live like royalty on a modest budget… invest for profits overseas ahead of the crowds… and secure your dream retirement in the world’s best destinations.
Lief Simon
Editor-In-Chief, Offshore Living Letter
Director, Overseas Property Alert
Founder, Simon Letter
Founder, Global Property Advisor
Lief Simon is our resident real estate investing and offshore diversification expert. His twice-weekly free newsletter, Offshore Living Letter, covers both topics with direct and easy-to-understand language.
Lief has lived and worked on 5 continents and traveled to more than 60 countries. His real estate investing experience began more than 20 years ago with a multi-unit building in Chicago.
After selling that building for a leveraged total return of more than 1,800% in 2 ½ years, Lief began to diversify internationally. In the two decades since, Lief has purchased more than 45 properties, investing in 26 different countries around the world. He has developed land, managed rentals, and flipped pre-construction buys. Lief has more experience buying and profiting from real estate around the world than any other individual investor you’re likely to find.
In addition, Lief specializes in offshore diversification, asset protection, and tax mitigation. Over the last two decades living and doing business around the world, he’s built a network of reliable and expert contacts he trusts on such matters — attorneys, bankers, tax consultants, and other advisors, both Stateside and in the jurisdictions where he spends time and money.
These are the people who keep the entire Live and Invest Overseas team up-to-date on important changes… as they happen. We know of no other reliable source where this kind of from-the-scene intelligence from the world’s top offshore havens is shared in real time by someone with real world, first-hand experience at all this.
Learn more about Lief Simon and offshore diversification here.