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? [...]
TMP went ‘slight sideways’ in value this month; slightly down $2K. Gold inched into second place. Are we really in a housing meltdown? I don’t think so. Neither does Jeff. Here’s Jeff’s report “2023 Phoenix Housing Update: A Housing Meltdown vs. Reality”: Our houses show slight decreases/increases/decreases in equity: Why [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added seven new books. Four are about the history of downtown Phoenix. We are reading these because of our purchase of the historic Gold Spot building. Another is a kids’ Bible to read with the grandchildren. The “Meditations” of Marcus [...]
Today we are reviewing three books: ON THE BARBARY COAST “On the Barbary Coast" (347 pages, paperback, 2022) by Alaric Bond: The 15th, and last(?) in our series. Great and getting better. The Amazon description is: “Spring 1814 and, after four exhausting years on the North American Station, HMS Tenacious is finally [...]
Napoleon never said this, but he should have; “I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.” We didn’t lose money on our thankfully failed new home buy, because we were lucky. TMP equity decreased slightly in value this month; down about 1%, or $6K. There is [...]
Every month we show what is on our reading table. This month we added five new books. We finished reading several; ‘As Time Goes By”, “Memory’s Legion’ and “Shinano!”. “Stand” (114 pages, paperback, 2022) by Pastor Jon Benzinger: From a local church we visited: “You are in the midst of the greatest attack [...]
Today we are reviewing three books about the history of the City of Phoenix: one fiction, two non-fiction. In April of last year, we bought “The Gold Spot” building in downtown Phoenix. The building, located at 1001 N. 3rd Ave. in the Roosevelt Historic District near downtown Phoenix, was built in 1925 and [...]
Today we reviewed two financial advice books; one on real estate acquisition, a Monopoly Project like strategy; and the other, a ‘self-help’ book. Both were recommended by our TMP, TMP2 partner, Jeff. Today is Super Bowl Sunday, February 12th, 2023. The game is going on now, but we are out doing book reviews. [...]
This trip/month we review two books by Louis Rosati: “Men of Steel” and “The Boy in Abruzzo”. Today we are reviewing two books by Louis Rosati; one fiction, the other non-fiction. I first found the novel, “The Boy in Abruzzo” in the PHX airport on our trip to Bakersfield to buy Westchester Gardens, [...]
TMP increased in value this month; up about 5%, or $17K. Is the housing market “crash” over? Maybe. Here our Jeff: You can see the specific increases in each estimate. I’m not sure why Crismon showed the huge jump. “Forget it Jake, it’s just the algorithm.” What’s next for TheMonopolyProject and TheMonopolyProjectTwo? Are [...]
