Apartment 1202

13/05/2019

After I gave up the apartment, I got a traveling job. Working remotely meant being able to manage teams while traveling internationally, but it also meant the freedom to work on a different schedule and, occasionally, stop and smell the roses.

I was able to work remotely for about two years while moving around Asia and the United States, creating my own work and travel schedule. And,...

09/05/2019

This is how Raleigh and I took the first trip on the boat that eventually included large trips with people from the apartment.

I was staying in Coron, Philippines for scuba diving at WW2 shipwrecks when a sailor came and stayed at the port overnight. There was only one...

09/05/2019

This is how Raleigh and I took the first trip on the boat that eventually included large parts of the apartment.

I was staying in Coron, Philippines for scuba diving at WW2 shipwrecks when a sailor came and stayed at the port overnight. There was only one...

05/05/2019

In Chinese real estate, a vast amount of wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few. This is the story of how Alex Ahlstrom had the opportunity to work with one of the top real estate developers in China.

Once, in Beijing, I had a job working directly with a crazy-rich Asian. I found the job by walking to an English training school for a...

03/05/2019

In Shanghai, apartment hunting means forgetting about the rules. This is how Alex Ahlstrom apartment 1202 in Shanghai.

Several roommates and I wanted to get a flat in Shanghai. We wanted to find a 5-bedroom flat with a massive living room in the center...

24/04/2019

This year, I was lucky enough to be in Cologne, Germany, where everyone dressed in costume to celebrate Carnival. http://financeabroad.com/culture-abroad/karneval/

24/04/2019

I wanted to show how to search for homes by starting with a celebrity's home, click to find out which one

95% of Americans start their property search online. Because, one of the great things about the American real estate market is that lots of transaction-related information...

23/04/2019

Students from American universities are studying abroad under completely different financial conditions than students from European universities. Click here to find out what Alex Ahlstrom learned from his two times studying abroad

Today, I would like to focus on the different financial study abroad terms set by a school in the United States versus by a school in...

19/04/2019

Alex is back at it again, this time writing a new culture and finance blog, www.financeabroad.com - check out his first post on graduate school in Germany. View the article here - http://financeabroad.com/alex-ahlstrom/study-abroad-post/

05/03/2015

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR MAKING THIS APARTMENT REALLY SPECIAL AND SOMETHING THAT WE CAN REMEMBER, unfortunately the apartment was handed back over to the landlord on February 28th, 2015.

01/03/2014

Texas Independence Day Party tonight! Then tomorrow all you can eat texas barbeue and free flow beer at stubbs bbq at 5pm to 10pm, then Alex and Daniel take the weekend to hong kong for two days! Next opening in the apartment is april 22

06/01/2014

Its a monday night - that means roomie Menno is organizing a Pub Crawl on a bus tonight, and there is also free drinks at Muse for anyone that feels like - all the makings of a solid Friday night brought to you on a Monday!