HoboTraveler Knocks IL & USA Today For Preying on "Naive" Expats

Andy Graham on the Ecuador angle....

"You don't take somebody at age 65 and get them to take their whole life savings and dump it in a property in Ecuador, knowing full well it's going to take 2-3 years to sell the property if you ever want to sell it....

"It can take up to ten years to sell a property (there)."

  -- hobotraveler.com





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cccmedia wrote:

Indiana-born Expat and world traveler Andy Graham, "The HoboTraveler," says a trio of publishers acting together are taking advantage of naive retirees.

In a video just posted at hobotraveler.com, Graham alleges...

"I consider Kathleen Peddicord and International Living and even USA Today working together as cohorts to cause problems for people who retire.  Kathleen Peddicord and International Living are really propagating a high-end real estate sales organization that is meant to take a naive person from America and send them (overseas) to pay way too much for real estate....

"I consider them unethical.  They know the person is naive in what they're doing."

Graham says he periodically gets complaints about USA Today articles written by longtime overseas-property-buying advocate Peddicord.

Comments Graham:  "I see them willing to cause a person at the end of their life a lot of problems.... This is to me evil....

"This is a good way to lose everything at a time when you can't afford it."

cccmedia in Quito

IL has had that reputation on here for years.  They do provide some useful information,  but it is not worth the time and money, considering their hidden agenda.

Well I don't know about you all, but I ALWAYS base all my important life decisions on advice solicited over the internet from anonymous strangers, upon whose kindness I have always depended...

Seriously I have not been at this game for long (the 'expat' or 'expat wannabe' game) but so far it's been pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.  It actually helps to have some chaff just to keep reminding you what it looks and sounds like...for me what I've seen from IL, there is a lot of chaff mixed in with not enough wheat, compared to other sources.