Belize Retirement Guides

Vanishing Retirement

Right now 80% of “retirees” in the U.S. are still working… 80%…that’s a very high figure. Why are so many of you, who are supposed to be enjoying your golden years still working? Some of you want to… you love your job or maybe you think you’ll be bored if you stop working … that’s fine.

But, a lot of you are retirement age and beyond are still working because you have to; you need the money… your pension, social security or investments are not enough to live on … the way you want to live. You really can’t afford to retire!

Millions of “baby boomers” are desperate to retire but the sad truth is that rising costs are eating-up retirement nest eggs at an alarming rate. Some have been counting on retirement funds, pension plans, and social security to carry them through the sunset years, but the painful fact is that retirement isn’t what it used to be.

“The Economic Policy Institute” published a study that found more than 40% of mid-life workers face retirement with less than half of their pre-retirement income…

…So, the American dream of spending your retirement having fun in the sun in places like Florida, Arizona, or California just isn’t economically possible for a lot of people anymore.

The idea of being able to retire … really retire … never having to work another day if you don’t want to … living in sunshine year-round, fishing, swimming, boating, and diving, whenever you want… and living well, and doing it all on a small amount of money … is a dream that appeals to a lot of us … and Belize is one of the few places left on earth where you can still do this on a small amount of money… we do!  - You must read our books. Order now!

We learned the hard way… But you don’t have to

If we would have known all that we know now when we moved to Belize we would have saved thousands of dollars and months… no, years of hassles.

Our books have information that you just would not know unless you came to Belize and lived here for quite a while!

Our Story

We first heard about Belize by way of a “60 Minutes” segment in the 1980’s. What we saw and heard almost sounded too good to be true. We wanted to see it for ourselves, so we did a few months later. We loved the tropical weather, the relaxed and friendly people, and the clean air and water. We went back home just long enough to sell off what we didn’t need, and pack up everything we thought we couldn’t live without.

We rented a lovely 3-bedroom house overlooking the Caribbean for only $150 a month. We were buying delicious tropical fruits for just pennies and an entire pound of lobster tail for $5.

Every afternoon we’d walk out our front door a few feet and plunge into the sparkling Caribbean … it was hard to believe it was real at first.

One especially dazzling afternoon, while floating in that warm, clear, ocean water, after a delicious lobster salad lunch with a brilliant autumn sun on my back, I realized how well we were living … and on so little money. I remember asking my husband Bill: “How much do you think it would cost us to live like this back home in Southern California?” He said: “A person would probably have to be a millionaire…. and even then the air and water could never be this clean and beautiful.” I said: “Why don’t more people on social security or small pensions do what we’re doing, and live in a place like this?” Bill’s answer was so simple yet so profound. I still remember it: “Maybe they don’t know they can!”

Soon after we got settled in our new home we wrote a 10-page letter home to family and friends, updating them on our new life, we included lots of details. We copied the letter and mailed it out. Then, we began getting letters back, lots of them…but not from the family and friends we’d written to, but from friends of friends and total strangers! Our letter had been passed around and read by many people we didn’t even know, and now they were all writing, asking for the same information … How can they live in Belize?

At first, we tried answering the letters by hand but as time went on it was more than we could handle. But, the experience made us realize that our letter had touched a common cord in people; and that we were doing something many people dream of.

Our beach-house was next to a hotel, and often times while curled up in our hammock on the veranda with a good book and a delectable afternoon breeze, a tourist would ask us the same question we’d heard time and again: “Excuse me, but do you live here?” And then they would always ask: “ How do you do it?”

Eventually (I don’t know why it took us so long) we got the idea to write a book about living in Belize. We wrote down everything we wished we would have known about living in Belize before, and shortly after we moved here…

Belize Not Just For Retirees

We now realize that people are interested in Belize for a lot more reasons than just retirement. With the advent of the personal computer and the Internet it is now possible to “telecommute”… Live anywhere in the world you want and run your business back home or keep the job you had working for someone else.

People write and ask us about obtaining a second passport, buying property, building houses, starting a business, getting jobs, offshore banking…even how to find love and romance in Belize … you name it they’ve asked it.

This started us writing our special reports to address areas of specific interest. We designed them to be storehouses of information condensed into a few concentrated pages. Most of this information is not available anywhere else, there are no books or articles on these subjects. And we continually update these reports as information changes. All of these reports contain usable and difficult to obtain government forms, only available in Belize.

Here are our 4 most popular special reports!

Belize Retirement Guide: How to Live in a Tropical Paradise on $450 a Month - Getting to Belize by car, bus, boat, ferry, and air, details on getting there and saving money doing it, including our “secret” of how to save hundreds of dollars on air fare to Belize. We even share some of our own “interesting” experiences including what to do, and not do, if you get into an accident while driving thorough Mexico. We’ll give you a geographical outline of Belize, plus descriptions of different regions of the country and why they may or may not appeal to you. The real nitty gritty on day to day life in Belize, food, pets, health care, shopping, transportation. We also tell you how to get the most for your money in Belize when exchanging currency. How to move to Belize. What to bring with you and what to leave at home: Appliances furniture, information on shipping companies, and our formula for how to rent a house for less.

Buying Property/Building a House in Belize - Ever dreamed of taking a piece of raw untouched forest and carving it into your own personal tropical paradise…complete with towering trees and waterfalls? How about owning ocean front property with your own white sandy beach…or even your very own tropical island? People like you are doing all these things in Belize where land is abundant and inexpensive. From a beachfront lot for your new home to acreage for a cattle ranch or farm, it’s all available in Belize. As a foreigner in Belize you can buy property and get title to it in your own name. We show you how you can do it quickly and easily. We’ll even show you how you can get a piece of land from the government of Belize for as little as $17.50 a year! Also learn what types of houses are the best to build in Belize and what building materials are available. Includes usable government forms necessary to buy land or apply for a land grant. 56 pages.

Starting a Business/Working in Belize - If you have always dreamed of starting your own business but were discouraged by the rules, regulations, red tape, and overhead, Belize is for you. It’s an entrepreneur’s paradise where your creativity won’t be hindered by bureaucracy. Or if you’d like to be able to use your knowledge and experience you can set your own schedule and fees and work as a consultant for a company in Belize. You can take your existing business offshore in Belize and save lots of money. Details on getting a work permit and wages for yourself and employees. Includes usable government forms. 23 pages.

How to Become a Permanent Resident of Belize / Obtain a Belizean Passport - You can get the benefits of being a permanent resident, even a citizen of Belize without having to give up your current citizenship and without having to spend a certain amount of time in country. Belize offers 2 types of permanent residency programs, both have advantages, one available in as little as a few weeks. See which is right for you and get the forms necessary to apply for either. Now more than ever people are interested in getting a second passport for safe, secure travel as well as privacy issues. Belize is one of the few countries on earth where you can get a second passport inexpensively; once you qualify the fee is only $150. All usable government forms included. 31 pages.