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Join us Thursday, February 22 at 9 am EST, for our live text-based Q&A on Travel Tips and Long-Term Rentals, hosted by International Living editor Suzan Haskins. If you’d like tips and strategies that help you travel more efficiently and save you money, Suzan will be online for 30 minutes to answer questions in real time.
She can show you how to pinpoint your best, value-priced options and helps ensure that you get the best travel bargains every time.
This centralized platform is designed to connect you with International Living members and our experts… So you can help each other travel better… discover new places… live more affordably… and enjoy the world more.
Remember, our Community Forum is a new feature and a work in progress. We’ll follow up with a survey before the end of the week, be sure to send your feedback after the sessions.
Travel Tips and Long-Term Rentals Q&A with Suzan Haskins
WHEN: Thursday, February 22
TIME: 09:00 Eastern TimeAdd a comment at the very bottom to ask your question.
Look forward to seeing you there!
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I'm looking to spend September - April this year in Panama and want to stay a month or so each in different areas, including David & Boquete. What's the best source or approach you recommend?
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We are so excited that we invested in Monte Rocellas in Cabos San Lucas as a RETA member. Is there an organization to join/pay for information regarding best doctors, how to use your US insurance/Medicare, dentists, optomertrists, etc. helping us navigate living there as our primary residence?
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I would like information on rentals in Panama and Costa Rica-for one or two months. thanks
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Hi, we're looking for mid-term rentals of 1-6 months in Scotland and Portugal--and ones that will accept our cat . Thanks!
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I would like to know how the yield number is calculated when buying a RETA property.
thank you for your time in this!!!
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Hi Suzan:
I have been contemplating relocating to another country for quite sometime. I originally came to the US from Bombay, India over sixty years ago. The Christmas 2022, I visited Mumbai, where I still have some family, and decided that the air over most of the places there is rather unhealthy, and would not like to live there.
I have come up with a list of what I consider desirables, and would appreciate your suggestions, using your extensive travel experiences. I am now 91, but still quite young, except that 13 years ago I fell 8 ft and suffered a spinal compression fracture. which is now limiting walks, and have to use a walker. Following is my list of preferences -- Clean, healthy air
- Milder climate
- Fresh vegetables available within walking distance. Am a vegetarian.
- don't need a car. (I would like to stop driving)
- Where it is cheaper to live. In California it is getting out of hand.
- Language-wise prefer English. But if I had to I can learn another language.
- Have to have a place where streets are fairly level. Last Christmas I visited Guatemala, where most towns had uneven cobblestone streets, and I could not walk anywhere with my walker. Unpaved streets are okay, as long as they are fairly even.
Thank you for your considered opinions.
Hemant Parekh
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Hi. I'm hoping to emigrate to Portugal in a year or two. I have 2 dogs (one is a service dog), and two cats. I live in Colorado, USA. What's the best way to take my pets with me? (I am a divorced, single, senior citizen; female.)
Thanks!
Susan Easley
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Hi Suzan, love this opportunity to ask questions. I have several LOL! Hopefully they will also help others.....
- IL has recommended asking for a discount on all rentals but when I ask on those hosted through Air BNB they always say they can’t change the price listed there. Suggestions?
- I am moving to Spain in January 2025 and my lawyer says it will take about 6 months for my visa to be approved. I must stay in the country during that time. Then I plan to go back to the US for a month or two, pack up my stuff, and then head back to Spain to live full-time. I’m trying to figure out how to arrange for a 6 month rental for the first stay that could perhaps go longer in case the visa process takes more time and then find a place when I get back to Spain for 6 to 12 months. I won’t know the exact dates I need to rent for each rental period since the visa application process could take longer. How do I do this?
- There is a specific little town that I want to rent long-term on the coast of Spain but I only find 10 rentals on Idealista. What would you recommend?
- When is the best time to start looking for long-term rentals - say for 6 months or longer? Is 6 months before my arrival a good timeframe to give me peace of mind that I have a place or is that too far in advance for landlords? (This is in Spain)
Thank you Suzan and International Living!
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Hi! Sorry for this it's a tech question. Right after clicking on the link to come here I got an email from no-reply@il.nodebb.com telling me to click on a link to "verify my account". Is this from IL and should I comply? Thanks!
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I am looking for good universities that teach at least a good portion in English so I can add new knowledge and skills in a safe environment. Preferably low tax and amenable to Dr Greger's vegetarian diet recommendations and very good air quality. The IL books tend to fixate on Europe what about Malaysia or the like?
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Will a replay be available?
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My husband and i are thinking about moving to another country. Portugal, Ireland and Panama are our top three. What is the best advice you would give us?
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@SPREZIOSI-0 Thanks for joining the conversation! This is a text-based Live Q&A, and the post won't be taken down afterward, so there's no need to worry about time sensitivity. Feel free to ask any questions you have on the topic; Suzan will respond if she can. And all the questions and answers will be here to read through later at your convenience.
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please ignore! so used to live calls, didn't realize this was text based!!
(Feedback: No way to delete or edit questions!)
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Is the live on this page? or is there another link?
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travelling to madrid, granada, seville and portugal in May. any tips on car rental. there is a charge of $600 to rent in madrid and drop off in lisbon.
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I would like to know about long term beach rentals in Belize and Costa Rica.
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text based Q&A ... that's poor ... do a Teams meeting next time.