Should You Rent for a Year Before Buying in Panama? The Honest Trade-Off
Every Panama expat forum tells you to rent a year before buying. It’s good advice — but it assumes a spare year and an open calendar, which not everyone has. Here’s the real trade-off between a full year’s lease and the extended, live-like-a-local visits we’ve been doing instead, including a wrinkle in our own household that makes “just rent a year” harder than it sounds.
