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Lessons Learned From Our First Months of Real Estate Investing

December 6, 2018 Mr. Half Comments 6 comments

As I mentioned in our last post, we bought our first rental property about two months ago. Based on the calculations that I had done I thought it was going to cashflow (the amount left after paying all of the expenses and the mortgage) around $300 a month. I had been using this excellent spreadsheet from F.I. Nomad to analyze properties. It is a really great tool and helped me narrow my search and filter out properties that wouldn’t be…

One Year of Solar Power

October 31, 2018 Mr. Half Comments 1 comment

In the summer of 2017, we had a 6.3 kWh photovoltaic system installed on the roof of our house. We have had the system for over a year now, so I will use this post to go over the process of getting the system installed, lessons learned and analyze how much money we actually saved on solar in our first year. The Purchase and Install Process We shopped around a bit with other local installers, but at the time, none…

How We Track Our Energy Use

October 24, 2018 Mr. Half Comments 4 comments

Whether we are talking about money or energy, a big part of keeping costs low is being able to track them. To accomplish this, I have a spreadsheet that has different tabs for each of the sources of energy inputs and outputs that we track for our primary residence. Grid Usage – Our utility company allows you to track how much energy we used on a daily basis, and is usually updated next day with information from the former. So…

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