Showing posts with label Dirt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dirt. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Real Estate Update

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Just did an update on our networth numbers.  Our three investment property mortgages are each, now, under $100,000 in debt. The current mo...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Updates on Debt

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I've recently, as of today, updated our networth debt numbers .  One of our goals for 2015 was to get our total debt load under $500,000...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Aspirational Housing

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Great article by author Michael Lewis of The Blind Side fame regarding the perils of expensive housing.  Even a very rich man like Michael...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Royal Screw Up

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So, I have a pretty good system set up for our personal finances.  I have a system for paying bills and for our savings that works off of ou...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

$300 Rule & $100 Rule

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As I have  previously posted , I have a long standing goal to have plantation shutters installed in two bedrooms in our home.  But, since pl...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

2014 Additional Goals - Update

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I  posted earlier of my multi-year goal to update the widow treatments in our home and my plan for 2014 to make progress on this goal. We...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

2014 - Additional Goals

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Previously I posted our  2014 savings goal numbers , I have a couple of other goals to list as well. Back in March 2012 I posted about wan...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

2014 Planning - Third Time is the Charm

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So, for the third time we are going to plan/try to save $69,000, maybe 2014 will be the year we hit this number.  Now that we have our 2014 ...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

I Love Numbers!

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A couple weeks back  I posted an update on our debt progress .  From 11/2012 - 11/2013 we paid off almost $35,000 in debt.  At this point in...
Friday, November 15, 2013

The Upside of the Real Estate Crash

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I was on Zillow today, poking around looking at a home that was recently listed a couple of blocks away. Of course, I had to look up our h...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Progress on Debt

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Updating our  networthiq.com numbers today and I was pleased to see we have less than $540,000 in debt (all real estate debt).  We have pai...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Investment Property Debt

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Hit a milestone this month with our investment property debt, at present we owe less than $300,000 on our investment properties.   Feels ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Refinance of Rental # 3

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Gosh, I am so glad we got refinanced our primary home last year (into a 15 year loan at 2.75% rate) before Mr. Sam was laid off from his job...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

How Low Can You Limbo

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In addition to our primary home mortgage, we have three other mortgages on our investment properties.  In working on updating our  net worth...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Quick Debt Update

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I don't post much about our debt, because there isn't much to say these days. We don't use credit cards in our day to day lif...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Remote Check Deposit - Follow Up

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Earlier, I posted about Wells Fargo's new remote deposit feature which allows you to take a photo of your check and deposit it remotely...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

You know its spring in Florida when . . .

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You know its spring in Florida when you are at the Super Wal-Mart at 6:00 a.m. buying rat traps. Now I'm not in charge of rat wranglin...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Insurance Homework - Follow Up

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Six months or so ago I posted about how we were in the process of obtaining life insurance.   And in September, I posted information about...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mortgage Musings

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Now that we are a few months into our new loan term it is time for me to start dreaming about killing the mortgage again. As a reminder,...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Goal Setting

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As I start planning our 2013 savings goals and I reflect on our progress to date on our 2012 savings goals this NYT Bucks Post by Carl Ri...