2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

August 6, 2008

July 2008 Net Worth Update (+$8,600)

Ok things are getting a bit back to normal now -- Our net worth just hit our highest monthly gain in May and our biggest monthly net worth drop in June. July has reverted more back to the mean and...
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August 18, 2008

Investment Performance July 2008 (+3.60%)

This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress...
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August 20, 2008

July Status of 2008 Financial Goals

I have started to report on a monthly basis the status of our 2008 financial goals. I have noticed confusion on my part about how much progress we are making on our goals (especially on our house savings goal) so...
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August 22, 2008

ReRenting Rental #2 - The Market Was Suprisingly Strong

The 2nd rental house we have became vacant not too long ago. Not only was this the first time I needed to re-rent a house that was being rented, but we were overseas so we needed to orchestrate this remotely....
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August 27, 2008

Merging Sharebuilder Accounts

Previous my wife and opened multiple Sharebuilder accounts to take advantage of the bonus money offered with the accounts (Sharebuilder review). While they might not be a service for everyone who is investing, taking advantage of their offer for free...
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August 29, 2008

ReRenting Rental #1 - The Rental Market Wasn't Good

The tenants moved out of Rental #1 less than 1 month after Rental #2. After re-renting Rental #2 in July I was starting to think that re-renting Rental #1 might not be too bad. After all we re-rented Rental #2...
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