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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We visited the Manhattan Beach Community Church where we got married 34 years ago. TMP equity increased in value this month; up $6K. Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our TMP and TMP2 house equity is jumping around. The models can’t price the volatility: [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books. NEW “Exchanging Up” (258 pages, paperback, 2005) by Gary Gorman: This book was mentioned in “Commercial Real Estate Investing for Dummies” that we reviewed last month. Since we are involved in a 1031 exchange now, I [...]
Today we are reviewing five books and repairing a Polar watch: 1. “Ireland: A Concise History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day" (272 pages, paperback, 2005) by Paul Johnson. Paul Johnson passed away this month. He was a historian, a GIANT. I’ve read some of his other books and came across [...]
TMP equity increased in value this month; up $8K. And our water heater finally died after 17 years. Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our TMP and TMP2 houses were all three slightly up: Here’s a video of the price history of the Valencia [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books. We finished reading; ‘Just Kids”, “As Time Goes By”, “Sea of Tranquility”, “Cataclysm”, “The E Myth Revisited” and “The Shores of Tripoli”. We will drop “The Laws of Human Nature”, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, and [...]
TMP equity decreased slightly in value this month; down $2K. But so did most of the other “opportunities”: Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our TMP and TMP2 houses show a mix; one up, two down: In real life, I got a new [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books. We finished reading; ‘Just Kids”, “As Time Goes By”, “Sea of Tranquility”, and “The Shores of Tripoli”. We will drop “The Laws of Human Nature”, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, and “Mastery” because of too little [...]
