Happy Memorial Day

We have had a long and lazy weekend here in Virginia.   There has been lots of Lego building, bike riding and book reading.  The weather is perfect outside.  I hope everyone had a nice long weekend.

International Day!

Every year my school, Montessori of Gainesville, has an International Day celebration.  All the classes present songs, dances and facts about their country. My class had South Korea.

My class and I getting ready to sing

Edward and I got to wear real South Korean costumes!

Next to our information board

My teachers - Ms. Freda, Ms. Kyou-Bin and Ms. Shala

South Korea is in Asia.  The national flower of South Korea is the Rose of Sharon.  The national sport of South Korea is Taekwondo.  The flag of South Korea is white with a red and blue circle in the middle and a black trigam in each corner.  The flag represents peace, balance and harmony.

Next Rental Property

We just bought our next rental property!  This one is a little different because it is in Memphis Tennessee!

We are very happy with our properties in Florida but the market there was heating up and our realtor said it was a difficult time to find good investments, in addition to that our property insurance company caps us at four homes insured in the state of Florida. If our insurance company thinks we should diversity to lower our risk then I thought it would be wise to start looking at other states as well.  I believe in the long run this will have the benefit of diversifying our portfolio and our tenant mix.  After researching and speaking to multiple companies we have found two companies that we felt confident in and comfortable with to expand our real estate investment portfolio into other states.    

This rental is a simple 3 bedroom 1 bathroom home in east Memphis.  We have tenants set to move in at the end of the month and hopefully this will be a nice little cash flow machine for us for years to come.  

In June we are going to add another property to our portfolio - this time we are looking at some duplexes in Philadelphia.  Our family's goal is to own 20 rental units by the time Dan retires from the Air Force.  

If you are interested in investing with us I have made up a business plan detailing our current investments and our plan moving forward which I can email to you.

If you are interested in learning more about real estate in general I have been writing real estate articles for Listen Money Matters talking about our journey into real estate and I am active on Bigger Pockets.

6 year old update

Vital Stats:
Weight: 44 pounds  Height: 46 inches
 I still wear size 4T shirts and pants, size 10 shoes

Skills:
I can read!  I am really good at sounding out words phonetically and am becoming a better speller every day.
I have good balance on my glider bike and might be willing to try a real bike again.

Likes: Mommy asked me a series of questions about my favorite things so here you go - 

Favorite friends at school - Miles, Brett and Lily

Favorite friends at home - McKenzie

Favorite teachers - Ms. Amanda & Ms. Joanne B

Favorite food - Waffles for breakfast, Spaghetti and meatballs for dinner

Favorite show - Stampy a YouTube channel about Minecraft

Favorite Movie - Lego Movie

Favorite toy - Rescue Bots

Favorite place to go - Epcot

Favorite animal - Kimono Dragon

Favorite color - Pink

Favorite dessert - Cookies

Favorite superhero - Superman

Favorite sport - swimming

 

 

Dislikes: Not much I dislike.  Main thing would be losing my iPad because we have to do something else.  I don't mind if you set a timer for me and when it rings I have to stop playing but if you just come and take my iPad from me I will get cranky!

 

What is to come: There are lots of big events happening at school over the next month.  We have International Day where I will present fun facts about South Korea.  We have Kindergarten graduation and presentation of all our special classes (art, music, etc)

I have lots of trips planned with my family as well and I will be spending several weeks away from my parents this summer!

 

 

Happy Birthday to me!

This was a weird birthday - The week before my birthday we went to Disneyworld and St. Augustine which was awesome!  Then the weekend right before my birthday I spent the weekend with Gram and my cousins.  Then daddy left for a week and me and mom have been hanging out at home.  We did have a birthday celebration at school and then eat chick-fil-a on my birthday night.  Overall a fun couple weeks and I feel much older now that I am 6!

I also got a new cruiser bike a few weeks ago which I like and have gotten very good at balancing after just a few days of practice. Much easier than a bike with pedals for some reason.

Dexter in the middle for the Montessori birthday celebration - Miles, Charlie, Victoria, Adian and Gwen in the background.

Eating our fancy birthday dinner and free birthday ice cream!

Dexter playing minecraft and playing with his minecraft toys