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What Are We Looking at This Month – 9. Only Commercial

By |2022-02-28T20:24:48+00:00February 25th, 2022|

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 [...]

Opportunity Cost – 18: Stocks: “Make Everything as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler”

By |2022-02-17T20:18:08+00:00February 10th, 2022|

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 [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Five Books

By |2022-02-09T06:56:05+00:00February 5th, 2022|

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 [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “Many Added, Several Dropped”

By |2022-01-28T20:59:00+00:00January 28th, 2022|

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 [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Four Books

By |2022-01-07T08:39:23+00:00January 5th, 2022|

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 [...]

Our December 2021 Standings – Still Number 1!

By |2022-01-03T20:56:00+00:00January 2nd, 2022|

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 [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “Slow Progress”

By |2021-12-29T13:59:42+00:00December 28th, 2021|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we made slow progress. Lots going on in the secular and spiritual world. And it’s Christmas: Comments on current reads: "Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing As Hypnosis?” (208 pages, paperback, reprint 2017) by Steven Heller and “How [...]

Opportunity Cost – 17: Commodities: Gold, Lumber, Oil

By |2021-12-14T23:04:15+00:00December 10th, 2021|

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 [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Three Books

By |2021-12-15T20:42:15+00:00December 5th, 2021|

This month we are reviewing three books: 1. “The Scent of Corruption, 2. “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs To Know About Cash Flow…”, and 3. “'The Encyclopedia of Commercial Real Estate Advice”. " The Scent of Corruption” (320 pages, paperback, 2015) by Alaric Bond. I read and reviewed the first six books [...]

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