After two years, TheMonopolyProject (TMP) is finally NUMBER ONE! TheMonopolyProject rocketed to the top with a total Score of $162,623. We easily outscored the stock market (VTSAX), Gold, and even WOOD. TMP now has 2.0 houses; that is, one house wholly owned (Valencia) and two houses half owned with Jeff; 29th Avenue [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. Comments on current reads: 1. “The Drama of Scripture” by Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen: Recommended by Pastor Jeff. I skimmed the first two chapters and really like this approach. Let’s see how it ends. 2.“Cut and Run” by Alaric Bond. [...]
Since Jeff and Jim became “partners” in buying, renting, holding, selling and trading single family homes (SFH) for TheMonopolyProject we have significantly increased our search activities. We’re looking for “The Perfect Monopoly” house. We completed the purchase of the house on 29th Avenue in Apache Junction on the 16th of February. We purchased for [...]
Should you start your own ‘Monopoly Project’? Should you start acquiring rental properties? In this series we examine the ways to start your own “Monopoly Project” (TMP). In our first post of this series, we explained the first thing you should do is to get into shape – Financial Shape. Then we showed how [...]
How did we do our own monopoly project? How did we start investing in real estate and build our current holdings (two apartment complexes, two medical building and two SFH’s)? In this series we will trace the history of our real estate acquisitions. Previously we described how we got started by buying our first [...]
Previously we discussed the concept of “Opportunity Cost”. If you choose to do one thing, you forgo many other choices. This “cost” is true whether it is money, time, or any other asset.We talked about the opportunity cost of going on a ‘once in a lifetime’ 10 day trip to the 75th anniversary of D [...]
Yesterday, TheMonopolyProjectTwo, consisting of Jeff and Jim bought another house! It’s a new build, located in Coolidge, AZ and built by Richmond American Homes. The Peridot plan is a 3 bd, 2 ba, about 1,600 sq ft one story house: Here’s a video preview of the Peridot house: And Richmond [...]
This month we are reviewing three books from our last “What We’re Reading This Month –A Bit of This and A Bit of That” post. This was what was on our reading desk: And we added a book since that post that was “hiding” on the upstairs reading table: “Introduction to the Intertestamental [...]
TheMonopolyProject (TMP) is comfortably in second place with a $4,000 gain for April 2021. Stocks (VTSAX) jumped also. In fact, all assets increased, and all are now above their starting point, if only just barely for Oil: Our formula to calculate our total assets (bank accounts plus home equity) credits one half of [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. Comments on current reads: "Intercessory Prayer" by Dutch Sheets: I just started reading this. I have read the first two chapters. If the rest is as good, and as documented, this is an OUTSTANDING book on what is intercessory prayer and how to [...]
