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How is the escrow process handled when buying property in Argentina using the above method -- or are the payment to the seller and conveyance of deed to the buyer independent events connected only by trust?

Why doesn't everybody in Argentina have one of these?: https://www.amazon.com/Counter-Machine-Counterfeit-Detection-ValuCount/dp/B097H3374Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FKNIXWLF0B75&keywords=argentine+peso+counter&qid=1679613435&sprefix=argentine+peso+counter%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1

Argentina doesn't have to accept IMF loans. Or if it does it can find some other way to make good on its loans.

Just need to work faster, that's all.

As a freelancer you'd pay 15.3% self-employment tax on every dollar your earned over and above business expenses.

I have an HSBC Premier account in Taiwan and was hoping to transfer it to LATAM when I relocate but now that plan looks doubtful. Much thanks for the helpful info.

At the official exchange rate? Is it possible to have a USD foreign currency account at the right bank?

Keeping your money in Uruguay and living in Argentina would be the obvious solution but knowing the way governments work that's probably not possible.

I'm in the process of deciding between Uruguay and Chile and one of the cons regarding Uruguay is the landscape. From afar it appears flat, largely featureless, and nothing special. Granted, this is where I'm coming from so anyplace else may pale in comparison...

The plan, as far as I understand it, is to do away with individual business owners and only have worker-owned companies. That way evil capitalists can't exploit workers by keeping most of the profits from a business and only paying workers what he has to to keep them working for him. As an evil...

I understand from your post how it's very doable to transfer large amounts of USD into a multicurrency account in an Argentinian bank but I missed the part where you could convert it to a wheelbarrow-full of pesos at the blue rate and easily buy real estate with it without running afoul of the law.

I use Google Translate in Taiwan and Japan when I don't know how to say something and it works quite well these days. If you need to hold a long, detailed conversation it's not enough but if you need to know how to ask where the pipe wrenches are at the local hardware store it works quite well.

Free money is the opiate of the people. When the people are forced to pay back all that free money with an inflation tax politicians make it a crime to talk about inflation. So it goes.

Very helpful reply. Thank you. I currently own a house in the U.S., an apartment in Taiwan, and a small farm in Japan so I know how convoluted the process can be. Real estate in Taiwan is similar to what you describe in Argentina. Taiwan's population is declining and buyers along with it but...

Thanks for the information-rich reply. When you do a bank transfer are you forced to convert to pesos on receipt at the official rate or can you keep your transfer in US dollars and purchase real estate in USD? After much thought and research I think this might be the opportune time to buy...

You're right. Just checked it. I don't know where I got the idea Argentina had a limit on the amount of cash you can bring into the country. There's got to be a right way and a wrong way though to carry, say, one-thousand hundred dollar bills into Argentina.

But bringing cash in is limited to $10,000 USD. What do you do if you want to buy property?

I owned an Endless Pool but ended up taking it out because it was like trying to swim in a giant washing machine due to the fact that it recirculates the water in the same space you're swimming in. I'm aiming to solve the problem of finding a good place to swim with three innovations...

I'm a crazy, multipatened inventor who's been living and working in Taiwan for the last twenty years. I'm also an avid swimmer. Unfortunately there is no good solution currently to the problem of finding a good place to swim. One of the solutions I've been working on for the last couple of years...