Archive for July, 2007

Life insurance math question

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I've been struggling with this for a while.  Maybe someone can help me out. I have a life insurance policy that has a cash value of $14,000.  Every year my the cash value of this policy goes up by $1,000.  My policy's premium is $766.00.  So on a simple level, I pay ...

$2.5 million dollars doesn’t buy alot these days

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

I spent the day in Houston looking at apartment buildings.  Apartment buildings, like single family homes very greatly in quality, style and condition.  Remember when you went shopping for homes in a certain price range and you'd go into a home asking $250,000 and think, this is pretty nice, then ...

Turning $1 into $1,000: A Poker Goal – update #7

Monday, July 16th, 2007

It's been a while since I've made a poker update.  That's because I haven't played that much in the past 3 weeks.  On June 25th I played 20,000 hands.  Today is July 16th and I've played only 7,000 hands since.  So I've been playing here and there and not really ...

Heading to Houston

Monday, July 16th, 2007

I'm flying out to Houston today to look at a few apartment complexes.  The goal of the trip is to get a feel for the neighborhoods and an idea of what you get for your money. Sorry for the short post. BTW, I got the house rented over the weekend and the ...

First day of my new job… sort of

Friday, July 13th, 2007

I began volunteering for a cooking school yesterday.   I no longer volunteer at the zoo because I moved 50 miles away from it.  One of my huge weaknesses is cooking.  I've taken a few cooking classes in the past and was thinking about taking some more or even enrolling in a ...

Rental home in Avondale Arizona

Friday, July 13th, 2007

I have a home available for rent in Avondale. To see more pictures and get more information please visit my Avondale rental home website. Update: Home has been rented

Awakenings

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

I read about Rich Twin Poor Twin on John Chow's blog yesterday.  They recently got banned from Google Adsense and estimated a loss of around $200,000.  I continued to read a few of their posts and I really liked their blog and will be visiting it often. I was reading their ...