Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we only added two books. Too much personal and business activity going on. Birthdays, homecomings, graduations, two possible offers on commercial property, stabilizing our most recent purchase… “Flatland” (96 pages, paperback, 1992) by Edward Abbott: “This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) [...]
This month we are reviewing the six books below: “Jesus’ Mysterious Space-Time Universe” (76 pages, paperback, 2017) by Gerald Paul Kooyers: After we read "Fourfold Kingdom of God" (239 pages, paperback, 2020) by “Gerald Paul Paul Kooyers” last month and gave it a negative review I thought I would give Kooyers another chance. [...]
We’re still in first place! But we had to correct a major error. Beware of large spreadsheets. We’re down $21K from last month’s reported value. But that’s because last month (going back to when?) we had an error in the calculation. Read more great spreadsheet humor and useful information at “Excel Spreadsheets Help”.We’ve fixed it [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added six books and finished them all! New books first:“Jesus’ Mysterious Space-Time Universe” (76 pages, paperback, 2017) by Gerald Paul Kooyers: After we read "Fourfold Kingdom of God" (239 pages, paperback, 2020) by “Gerald Paul Paul Kooyers” last month and gave it [...]
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. What are we looking at now? The question on everyone’s mind is ‘how long can this crazy market go on?’. There is no answer. Everyone has an opinion. [...]
This month we are reviewing the four books below: "Fourfold Kingdom of God" (239 pages, paperback, 2020) by Gerald Paul Paul Kooyers: I bought this book after reading “The Holy Longing” based on a recommendation from the Stanford Magazine. The book looks at God’s kingdom from a mathematical and physics perspective. Lots of [...]
TheMonopolyProject (TMP) soared above $350,000!Remember, we started with $100,000. We’ve added $254,000 in three years. Oil stayed in 2nd place thanks to the ongoing 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.Note that we [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added two books: “Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival” (358 pages, paperback, 2001) by Hank Bordowitz: Our dog Danna was investigating a hoodoo in a potted plant. Michelle wondered what she was doing. I explained via [...]
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. What are we looking at now? The question on everyone’s mind is ‘how long can this crazy market go on?’. There is no answer. Everyone has an opinion. [...]
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 [...]
