Our December 2023 Standings – With 30 Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Commentary

By |2024-01-05T17:00:03+00:00January 2nd, 2024|

TMP equity increased in value this month; about $10K. Our three TMP and TMP2 houses were two up, one down: Interest rates have finally started coming down. Here is an interesting article on 30 year fixed mortgage rates since 1973. Mortgage rate history: 1970s to 2023 (msn.com) Here’s the video: [...]

Our September 2023 Standings – With Caribbean Cruise

By |2023-10-27T06:40:57+00:00October 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity slightly increased in value this month; up $3K. 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 up, one down: We were distracted by a Caribbean cruise on the ‘Harmony of the Seas’. [...]

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

By |2023-10-26T21:54:30+00:00September 28th, 2023|

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 [...]

Our August 2023 Standings – With Flowing Springs StarLink Update

By |2023-09-04T17:23:48+00:00September 2nd, 2023|

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 [...]

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

By |2023-09-04T18:34:45+00:00August 28th, 2023|

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 [...]

Our July 2023 Standings – Our 34th Wedding Anniversary

By |2023-08-03T00:25:08+00:00August 3rd, 2023|

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: [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “You Cannot Exchange a Rooster for a Chicken”

By |2023-07-31T16:15:33+00:00July 28th, 2023|

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 [...]

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