May 2015 Net Worth Update (+15,309)




Highlights for April

  • We have earned approx $3,400 (in gift cards, points, and miles) through credit card signup bonuses in the part year. We are actively working on 2 additional bonuses including the Delta Amex Card for 50,000 Skymiles & Barclay Travel Plus Card for $400 in travel credit.
  • Our properties are listed on our balance sheet based on their cost basis, not current market value. We have done this during the the real estate market highs and lows. I believe real estate is too illiquid to list based on recent sale transactions.
  • I spent 2 weeks in May on a business trip to China. I enjoying traveling (this trip included my first visit to Chengdu, China); but with a young family back home its difficult to manage. We end up spending more while I travel for work.
  • I'm expecting a small annual performance bonus in June for the first time in a couple years from my new employer. We continue to go through a great deal of transformation and uncertainty as we integrate our organization that was acquired from IBM last year. Change can be hard, but I continue to embrace it and hope it will payoff down the road.
  • In May we hired a painter to help take care of some long standing projects around the house. In the end we spent about $1,400 to update several rooms and some of the exterior of our house. I'm so far behind on home projects that it was a good value to see some progress, but I cringe at the thought of hiring someone to perform a task we can do ourselves. I do see this expense as a good example of the cost of the extra hours I am putting in the office that I could otherwise be putting towards home projects or this blog ;-).
  • Our portfolio performed poorly compared to our benchmark. I continue to think the markets are overvalued and focus our free cash on paying down our property mortgages.
  • In June we have a beach vacation planned for a week after my oldest daughter completes kindergarten. We are looking forward to some down time.


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