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Our January 2026 Standings – What’s Up With Gold?

By |2026-02-02T18:59:38+00:00February 2nd, 2026|

Gold is still in First Place with some crazy moves at the end of January 2026. We still expect that real estate will recover and TMP will be back in First Place, maybe later this calendar year. What’s going on with gold? Here is a GROK analysis of GOLD for the last six [...]

Our April 2025 Standings – Big Changes and the Pain of Transaction Costs

By |2025-05-26T17:59:45+00:00May 2nd, 2025|

Well, we completed all the transactions: one sale, one refinance, three purchases. TMP now owns four houses, two fully owned, four half owned with TMP2. During the selling, refinancing and buying, we had to add $20,000 additional capital to TMP/TMP2. Last month we had an estimated equity of $374K, now we’re at [...]

Our March 2025 Standings – We’re Making Big Moves

By |2025-06-04T17:29:05+00:00April 1st, 2025|

We did not even attempt to calculate TMP equity this month. We are shutting down the entire TMP project! Aprils Fools. That’s why I dated this update for April 1. There is too much confusion as we are in the process of buying four more TMP/TMP2 houses. Two were bought as of 31 March [...]

Our February 2025 Standings – Big Changes Coming

By |2025-03-29T16:56:42+00:00March 2nd, 2025|

TMP equity was down $12K this month but that comes with a lot of caveats. We sold our 29th Ave house, we bought four new build houses in Coolidge, AZ, and refinanced the original TMP house on Valencia. So, to go over the changes one by one. Last month we reported: “We did [...]

Our January 2025 Standings – 1031 and Flaming Steaks

By |2025-02-03T00:52:58+00:00February 2nd, 2025|

TMP equity was up $6K this month but that covered up a lot of ups and downs and strange valuations in the estimating websites (Redfin.com, Zillow.com, Realtor.com). We will leave those aside for now and keep pressing forward. Last month we reported: TMP is looking forward to a great 2025. We’re planning on [...]

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