This month we are reviewing the four books below: “How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Own How-To Book” (199 pages, paperback, 2020/4th edition) by John T Reed: Previously I had reviewed Reed’s book on life, “Succeeding”. I have read his real estate materials (he does much more than real estate, see John [...]
TheMonopolyProject (TMP) soared to almost $325,000!Remember, we started with $100,000. We’ve added $225,000 in three years. Oil jumped back into 2nd place thanks to the international crisis in Ukraine. Oil has the distinction of going the lowest ($47,900 in April 2020) during the initial stages of the COVID panic and coming back the highest. Here’s [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added four books: Comments on current reads: “Resurrection Shock – Did the Disciples Get It Right?” (378 pages, paperback, 2020) by Lane Sanford Webster: This was another recommendation from the Stanford Alumni magazine. Previously I said, “I’ve read the first [...]
Since Jeff and Jim became “partners” in buying, renting, holding, selling and trading single family homes (SFH) for TheMonopolyProject in January, we have bought two houses. We completed the purchase of the house on 29th Avenue in Apache Junction on the 16th of February 2021. And on January 14th,, 2022 we closed on the [...]
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 [...]
This month we are reviewing five books: 1. “Resurrection Shock”, 2. “The Blackstrap Station”, 3. “Commercial Real Estate: Journey Towards Financial Freedom”, “Silver in the Stones”, and “The Civil War; The Final Year”. 1. “Resurrection Shock – Did the Disciples Get It Right?” (378 pages, paperback, 2020) by Lane Sanford Webster: This was another recommendation [...]
TheMonopolyProject (TMP) soared to over $300,000! Up, Up and Away! We are now cash poor, and asset rich: Our total bank accounts are down to less that $2,000 from a starting point of $100,000. We have invested almost all of the original $100K in three houses. The value of those [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added five books and we’re going to retire a number of books that we have just not gotten to. After a while, the book gets stale, and we just must let it go. Green is added, red is dropped, black [...]
TheMonopolyProject and TheMonopolyProjectTwo celebrate the end of 2021 and look forward to 2022. This month we are reviewing four books: 1. “HMS Prometheus, and as a set of three; 2. “The Passion and the Cross”, 3. “'Clowning In Rome”, “Markings”. “HMS Prometheus” (316 pages, paperback, 2015) by Alaric Bond. I read and reviewed [...]
TheMonopolyProject (TMP) is still Number 1, but we fell back a few thousand dollars. This was due to an adjustment from 2.5 houses to 2.0 houses as explained below. We have adjusted the TMP ownership to 2.0 houses from 2.5 houses last month. We still have the one house wholly owned (Valencia) but [...]
