2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

August 2, 2009

Our Tenants Drive Nicer Cars and Watch Betters TVs Than We Do

I happened to walk through both our rental properties this past week and it really struck me that both sets of tenants drive newer cars and have much bigger TVs than my wife and I. Its one of those things...
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August 7, 2009

July 2009 Net Worth Update (+$27,928)

A great month for us - probably one of the best ever in terms of $$ gain on the bottom line. It was a pretty quiet month financially speaking though - the outsized gain was entirely driven by gains in...
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August 11, 2009

House #2 Appaised at $150,000

I got a pleasant suprise this week as I got a copy of the appraisal done for our new equity line on House #2 - $150,000! I orginally paid less than $130,000 back in June 2006 and wasn't expecting any...
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August 15, 2009

Download Stock Quotes Into MS Excel

I recently ran into a problem downloading stock quotes into my investments spreadsheet. I used this technique to pull stock quotes from Yahoo!Finance directly into my investment tracker. There are alternatives, but this was the cleanest way I found to...
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August 18, 2009

Investment Performance July 2009 (+9.34%)

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 31, 2009

Refinanced to an Investment Equity Line of Credit

A month ago our real estate mortgages/debt/leverage looked like this: Property Financing Current Balance PITI Rental Property #1 5.63% 30yr fixed mortgage $ 110,900 $ 1,030 Rental Property #1 HELOC 3.25% variable APR $ - $ - Rental Property #2...
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