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 [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Five Books and the Watch Dog

By |2023-07-10T19:13:33+00:00July 5th, 2023|

Today we are reviewing five books and repairing a Polar watch: 1. “Ireland: A Concise History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day" (272 pages, paperback, 2005) by Paul Johnson. Paul Johnson passed away this month. He was a historian, a GIANT. I’ve read some of his other books and came across [...]

Our June 2023 Standings – Water Heater Leak and Equity Increased

By |2023-07-03T15:50:13+00:00July 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity increased in value this month; up $8K. And our water heater finally died after 17 years. Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our TMP and TMP2 houses were all three slightly up: Here’s a video of the price history of the Valencia [...]

What We’re Reading This Month – “Three New and Repairing A Watch”

By |2023-06-28T18:14:39+00:00June 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books. We finished reading; ‘Just Kids”, “As Time Goes By”, “Sea of Tranquility”, “Cataclysm”, “The E Myth Revisited” and “The Shores of Tripoli”. We will drop “The Laws of Human Nature”, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, and [...]

Our May 2023 Standings – Welcome, Wedding, 100,000K Miles

By |2023-06-05T15:40:42+00:00June 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity decreased slightly in value this month; down $2K. But so did most of the other “opportunities”: Here is the historical record since we started TMP in March of 2019! Our TMP and TMP2 houses show a mix; one up, two down: In real life, I got a new [...]

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

By |2023-06-01T17:03:42+00:00May 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added three new books. We finished reading; ‘Just Kids”, “As Time Goes By”, “Sea of Tranquility”, and “The Shores of Tripoli”. We will drop “The Laws of Human Nature”, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry”, and “Mastery” because of too little [...]

Our April 2023 Standings – Slight Increase and Elvis

By |2023-05-04T16:27:57+00:00May 2nd, 2023|

TMP equity increased slightly in value this month; up $9K. The other “opportunities” jostled around a bit. “Oil” (USL) managed to beat Gold by a few hundred dollars for 2nd place. And a plain old CD at 3.1% jumped into 5th place beating the WOOD shares by four dollars, that is $4.00! Our [...]

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

By |2023-05-01T20:32:25+00:00April 28th, 2023|

Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added only two new books. We finished reading many; ‘One Rental At A Tim”, “Phoenix Then and Now”, “Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row”, “Midcentury Phoenix”, “Phoenix Past and Present”, “It’s Elemental”, and “The Medieval Cannon”. NEW “The Shores of Tripoli” (419 pages, [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Five Books: Four on Phoenix History, One on Real Estate

By |2023-04-17T18:42:40+00:00April 15th, 2023|

Today we are reviewing five books and teaching sewing: FOUR BOOKS ON PHOENIX HISTORY Four books on Phoenix history. We are researching Phoenix history since we bought a historic building, The Gold Spot. Built in 1925. The 100th anniversary is coming up. The Gold Spot is located in downtown Phoenix on Roosevelt Row, [...]

TMP Floating Book Reviews – Two Books on Chemistry for March

By |2023-04-04T17:27:34+00:00April 5th, 2023|

Today we are reviewing two books: IT’S ELEMENTAL  “It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything” (304 pages, paperback, 2022) by Kate Biberdorf: Amazon description is: “Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making your hair look greasy? [...]

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