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TMP Floating Book Reviews – Two Books by Louis Rosati

By |2023-02-07T22:07:43+00:00February 5th, 2023|

This trip/month we review two books by Louis Rosati: “Men of Steel” and “The Boy in Abruzzo”. Today we are reviewing two books by Louis Rosati; one fiction, the other non-fiction. I first found the novel, “The Boy in Abruzzo” in the PHX airport on our trip to Bakersfield to buy Westchester Gardens, [...]

Our January 2023 Standings – Slight Increase?

By |2023-02-03T16:22:01+00:00February 2nd, 2023|

TMP increased in value this month; up about 5%, or $17K. Is the housing market “crash” over? Maybe. Here our Jeff: You can see the specific increases in each estimate. I’m not sure why Crismon showed the huge jump. “Forget it Jake, it’s just the algorithm.” What’s next for TheMonopolyProject and TheMonopolyProjectTwo? Are [...]

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

By |2023-01-30T17:24:51+00:00January 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added eleven new books! And we actually finished reading several but did not get around to our Floating Book Reviews yet. We finished reading “As Time Goes By”, “Men of Steel”, “The Boy in Abruzzo”, “Hold”, and “Shinano!”. And late [...]

Our December 2022 Standings – End Times?

By |2023-01-09T16:01:54+00:00January 2nd, 2023|

The housing price decrease finally hit us! TMP decreased in value this month; down another $21K, almost 6%. Have we hit “end times”? See below for more answers. That said, we remained firmly in First Place with other assets mixed: You can see decreases in some of the Redfin and Zillow estimates. [...]

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

By |2022-12-28T21:13:12+00:00December 28th, 2022|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books.“Stand” (114 pages, paperback, 2022) by Pastor Jon Benzinger: From a local church we visited: “You are in the midst of the greatest attack on Christianity in your life. Make no mistake, the war is coming for you. The [...]

Our November 2022 Standings – More Equity Decrease

By |2022-12-05T19:25:22+00:00December 2nd, 2022|

The housing price decrease finally hit us! TMP decreased in value this month; down another $21K, almost 6%. That said, we remained firmly in First Place with other assets all up: You can see decreases in some of the Redfin and Zillow estimates. Here’s the record of all assets in TMP [...]

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

By |2022-11-29T18:57:08+00:00November 28th, 2022|

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our fountain has cracked and fallen.  More later. Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added two more new books. And we were so busy that we did not get around to doing our Floating Book Review for November. We were distracted by a daughter [...]

Our October 2022 Standings –Equity Decreases and A Snake

By |2022-11-04T18:38:44+00:00November 2nd, 2022|

Our October 2022 Standings –Equity Decreases and A Snake That said, we remained firmly in First Place with other assets bouncing up and down: You can see decreases in some of the Redfin and Zillow estimates. Here’s the record of all assets in TMP League: And guess what kind of [...]

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

By |2022-10-28T18:36:20+00:00October 28th, 2022|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added only two new books. “Stand” (114 pages, paperback, 2022) by Pastor Jon Benzinger: From a local church we visited: “You are in the midst of the greatest attack on Christianity in your life. Make no mistake, the war is [...]

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