How To Look At Real Estate Values

Okay, I’m a nerd. For an example, please refer to the DCF analysis I ran on our duplex.

Not the view from our duplex, but it is just 30 minutes away!

And unlike elementary school where having a mind more prone to pattern analysis than understanding social dynamics was a definite drawback, as adults it’s [...]

He Said, She Said – Holiday Gifts For The Renters?

Since our last He Said, She Said on buying A $2K tube amp was a hit, we’re going to try it again.

 

The Background on Today’s Conversation

Kitty PoP gets to be the moderator in these debates…

We’re now in our second holiday season with our $50K duplex fully rented. Unlike last [...]

Worth Mentioning #13 – Election Edition

For those of you that have been living under a rock (or not in a swing state like the PoPs), it might have been easy to forget about the quadrennial ridiculousness that has become the U.S. Presidential election.  Yet, in a swing state like Florida where hundreds of millions of dollars – that’s eight zeros [...]

The Joneses? Never met ‘em…

You know that family down the street that we’re all theoretically aspiring to keep up with – the Joneses? We’ve never met ‘em.

This is how Kitty PoP sits in the front window. You’d swear he had no shame. No. Shame. At. All.

Actually, despite the fact that we’ve lived here for more than [...]

How We Bought A $50K Duplex – Part 4

If you’re just joining in, this is Part 4 (the last) of a series about how we scored our $50K Duplex. Catch up with the rest of the posts here: Part 1 – Who, What, Where, When, and How? Part 2 – Realtors Don’t Call Them Problems, They’re “Issues” Part 3 – Getting Serious, Making [...]

How We Bought A $50K Duplex – Part 3

If you’re just joining in, this is Part 3 of a series about how we scored our $50K Duplex. Catch up with the rest of the posts here: Part 1 – Who, What, Where, When, and How? Part 2 – Realtors Don’t Call Them Problems, They’re “Issues” Part 3 – Getting Serious, Making Offers, and [...]

How We Bought A $50K Duplex – Part 2

If you’re just joining in, this is Part 2 of a series about how we scored our $50K Duplex. Catch up with the rest of the posts here: Part 1 – Who, What, Where, When, and How? Part 2 – Realtors Don’t Call Them Problems, They’re “Issues” Part 3 – Getting Serious, Making Offers, and [...]

How We Bought A $50K Duplex – Part 1

Seriously - Was he not adorable back then?

If you’re just joining in, this is Part 1 of a series about how we scored our $50K Duplex. Catch up with the rest of the posts here: Part 1 – Who, What, Where, When, and How? Part 2 – Realtors Don’t Call Them Problems, They’re “Issues” Part 3 – Getting Serious, Making Offers, and [...]

Being a Landlord

If you missed our post on our diversified real estate holdings (sounds so grown up to call them that, huh?), here’s a quick catch up on our little rental duplex.

We bought our duplex in 2010 for $50K and immediately put about $8K and 6 months of weekend sweat equity into it to bring it [...]

Our Diversified Real Estate Portfolio

Real Estate Portfolio. Sounds impressive, huh? (click to tweet)

Sunrise over the bay, sadly this is not our canal lot as lots with this view are about $1MM+, not $84K

Anyhow, for those of you that have been living under a rock the past few years, the real estate market in the US has [...]