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Our March 2024 Standings – Leonardo da Sutherlin Talks About the Impact of the NAR Lawsuit

By |2024-04-04T19:00:36+00:00April 2nd, 2024|

TMP equity was up $13K this month, mostly due to peculiar changes in the Valencia and 29th Ave estimates. Even though we’re up $13K, I think it is mostly ‘noise’ in the data. For example, the Valencia house was up $6K, mainly due to a $13K increase according to Redfin.com.  The 29th Ave [...]

Our December 2023 Standings – With 30 Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Commentary

By |2024-01-05T17:00:03+00:00January 2nd, 2024|

TMP equity increased in value this month; about $10K. Our three TMP and TMP2 houses were two up, one down: Interest rates have finally started coming down. Here is an interesting article on 30 year fixed mortgage rates since 1973. Mortgage rate history: 1970s to 2023 (msn.com) Here’s the video: [...]

Our September 2023 Standings – With Caribbean Cruise

By |2023-10-27T06:40:57+00:00October 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity slightly increased in value this month; up $3K. The housing market recovery is continuing, but slowly. Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our three TMP and TMP2 houses were two up, one down: We were distracted by a Caribbean cruise on the ‘Harmony of the Seas’. [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “Six New”

By |2023-10-26T21:54:30+00:00September 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added six new books. NEW “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” (680 pages, paperback, 1991 but really 1940s) by Samuel Eliot Morrison: A great book so far. Morrison adds a lot of interesting detail of the times. “A Gentleman in Moscow” (512 [...]

Our August 2023 Standings – With Flowing Springs StarLink Update

By |2023-09-04T17:23:48+00:00September 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity slightly increased in value this month; up $2K. The housing market recovery is continuing, but slowly. Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our three TMP and TMP2 houses were two down (red highlighting), one up (blue highlighting): We finally got back to [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “Two New”

By |2023-09-04T18:34:45+00:00August 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added two new books. NEW “The Mill on the Floss” (704 pages, paperback, 2003) by George Eliot: I stumbled across this before our Mediterranean cruise. I read it during that time. Great storytelling, great soap opera. And “George” is a great [...]

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