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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #300 on: April 01, 2016, 04:57:00 PM »
Yes sorry duh 2015/16 haha.
Yes I guess my contributions are small in these circles it isn't much - $820 my choices were all over the place, but mostly stocks.
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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #301 on: April 01, 2016, 05:06:03 PM »
Just crossed the threshold and am joining this thread!

  • April 1 2016: $102,411

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #302 on: April 02, 2016, 09:29:39 AM »
This is for our Investment Accounts only.

January 2015:   $77,300
July 2015:         $115,800
January 2016:   $124,100
February 2016: $127,500
March 2016:     $141,700

April 2016:        $152,300

Finally crossed the $150k line!  The rest of this year should be rather slow going as we front loaded our investments as much as possible this year.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #303 on: April 02, 2016, 10:02:38 AM »
Been off the forum (low info diet) for a while, less time surfing, reading more books etc. Just logged into see that my steady (set and forget automatic withdrawals each month) savings were growing very nicely, thought I'd post here. Will add another 15,000 before summer is over due to raises and bonuses this year.

Jan 2015 - $94,000
Feb 2015 - $ 97,000
Mar 2015 - $106,000
Apr 2015 - $108,000
May 2015 - $114,000
June 2015 - $ 117,000
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April 2016 - $145,000

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #304 on: April 02, 2016, 12:06:24 PM »
Yes sorry duh 2015/16 haha.
Yes I guess my contributions are small in these circles it isn't much - $820 my choices were all over the place, but mostly stocks.

I think it makes sense overall then since most markets were not great over the last year. And the trend is generally positive. And if market variation can swamp out your contributions, that is generally a positive sign. Your stash is big enough to have a mind of its own.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #305 on: April 02, 2016, 12:12:57 PM »
April 2015: $98k
May 2015: $111k
June 2015: $112k
July 2015: $113k
Aug 2015: $113k
Sept 2015: $116k
Nov 1 2015: $120,330.91
Dec 1 2015: $138,810.56

Jan 1 2016: $141,251.00
Feb 1 2016: $135,573.00
Mar 4 2016: $138,331.39
Apr 1 2016: $146,788.37

Finally going back up!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #306 on: April 02, 2016, 03:47:34 PM »
Yes sorry duh 2015/16 haha.
Yes I guess my contributions are small in these circles it isn't much - $820 my choices were all over the place, but mostly stocks.

I think it makes sense overall then since most markets were not great over the last year. And the trend is generally positive. And if market variation can swamp out your contributions, that is generally a positive sign. Your stash is big enough to have a mind of its own.
ok thanks! phew~!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #307 on: April 02, 2016, 08:44:43 PM »
I have just looked back for the first time, and  I can't believe how up and down it goes compared to the rest of you:

Are you tracking on Mint? If you are, are you, by chance, tracking your house value with the Zestimate? If you are, that could be throwing your numbers out of whack. My Zestimate was varying as much as $15k in two weeks, so obviously it was not remotely accurate for my region. So, I put in a manual value and it stabilized my NW.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #308 on: April 03, 2016, 01:05:36 AM »
Another great month, markets were up on this one.  These next six months will be interesting since my last day of work was on the 31st.  I still wager my NW will continue to rise, but it may be slowing down a bit until I find another job.

This months numbers:
May 2015:  $100,323.89
June 2015: $106,433.29
July 2015: $114,450.69
August 2015: $118,018.27
September 2015: $121,664.35
October 2015: $132,652.87
November 2015: $138,272.53
December 2015: $144,824.70
January 2016: $149,731.88
February 2016: $159,138.30
March 2016 $172,089.61

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #309 on: April 03, 2016, 01:13:32 AM »
March was a decent month mostly due to the raise in the market. Should break 220k by the end of April while we are out of the US on vacation :)


End of
Jan 2015:                $113,226
Feb 2015:                $120,796
Mar 2015:                $125,852
Apr 2015:                $134,096
May 2015:               $147,916
Jun 2015:                $151,413
Jul 2015:                 $159,678
Aug 2015:               $152,854
Sep 2015:               $157,447
Oct 2015:                $171,938
Nov 2015:               $181,198
Dec 2015:               $203,468
Jan 2016:                $198,042
Feb 2016:                $206,381
Mar 2016:                $217,931


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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #310 on: April 03, 2016, 05:59:42 AM »
I have just looked back for the first time, and  I can't believe how up and down it goes compared to the rest of you:

Are you tracking on Mint? If you are, are you, by chance, tracking your house value with the Zestimate?

HI, yes i do use Mint, and Zillow, but this it just from my 403b only, my net worth is a bit higher, but as you say moves around too much because of bills and zillow. I should set it to fixed like you have.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #311 on: April 03, 2016, 06:35:35 AM »
Another great month, markets were up on this one.  These next six months will be interesting since my last day of work was on the 31st.  I still wager my NW will continue to rise, but it may be slowing down a bit until I find another job.

This months numbers:
May 2015:  $100,323.89
June 2015: $106,433.29
July 2015: $114,450.69
August 2015: $118,018.27
September 2015: $121,664.35
October 2015: $132,652.87
November 2015: $138,272.53
December 2015: $144,824.70
January 2016: $149,731.88
February 2016: $159,138.30
March 2016 $172,089.61

Wow, you've been doing very well since graduating the other thread!! 

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #312 on: April 03, 2016, 08:55:18 AM »
Jan 1, 2015:     $125,000
Feb 1, 2015:     $129,700
March 1,2015:  $134,400
April 1,2015:     $147,700
May 1,2015:     $153,000
June 1,2015:    $155,600
July 1,2015:     $141,600
August 1,2015 $145,700
Sept 1, 2015   $145,240
Oct 1, 2015     $144,10   
Nov 1,2015     $157,000
December 1,2015 $157,600
January 1, 2016: $160,400
February 1,2016: $160,200
March 1,2016: $170,300
April 1,2016: $177,900

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #313 on: April 11, 2016, 09:14:24 AM »
Hi Guys! I look forward to joining you next month - I was about $300 shy of the mark at the end of March :-)

I thought I'd bring something to the party, so here's a spreadsheet you we can populate if we wish:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z8OcegKpbeNJoqSI0nzoBuypFKqDD7BT2SS60oFEeCw/edit?usp=sharing

*All data entry on the "Data Entry" tab. "The Big Board" tab will auto-populate based on these data.

*EDIT* Opened up access to anyone with the link, had it on private at first


« Last Edit: April 11, 2016, 01:01:33 PM by tarheeldan »

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #314 on: April 11, 2016, 09:36:58 AM »
$141,000 - Thanks to a nice drop in the markets over the past months -_- Hoping to get to $200,000 by Dec 31st 2016.

Up to $148k investable assets as of today.

Up to $169k today, looks like I'll be hitting that $200k by end of 2016.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #315 on: April 11, 2016, 12:52:33 PM »
I'm in too. I really want to press the pedal now. I am 31 and at 92K net worth, but I think I can join this race. Thanks to my lovely wife, we have been very modest in our lifestyle, yet very comfortable. I have a 4 yr old too, we are a good small team. I'll hit 100K in April, expecting a windfall. :) 

September 2015      $58,316.82
October 2015        $71,465.56
November 2015      $71,482.35
December 2015      $78,145.63
January 2016      $84,029.04
February 2016      $89,874.29
March 2016      $93,825.21
April 2016              $92,620.01

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #316 on: April 11, 2016, 05:25:52 PM »
Hi Guys! I look forward to joining you next month - I was about $300 shy of the mark at the end of March :-)

I thought I'd bring something to the party, so here's a spreadsheet you we can populate if we wish:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z8OcegKpbeNJoqSI0nzoBuypFKqDD7BT2SS60oFEeCw/edit?usp=sharing

*All data entry on the "Data Entry" tab. "The Big Board" tab will auto-populate based on these data.

*EDIT* Opened up access to anyone with the link, had it on private at first

I love a good spreadsheet.  Data entered.

Welcome to the thread!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #317 on: April 11, 2016, 11:32:39 PM »
Hi Guys! I look forward to joining you next month - I was about $300 shy of the mark at the end of March :-)

I thought I'd bring something to the party, so here's a spreadsheet you we can populate if we wish:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z8OcegKpbeNJoqSI0nzoBuypFKqDD7BT2SS60oFEeCw/edit?usp=sharing

*All data entry on the "Data Entry" tab. "The Big Board" tab will auto-populate based on these data.

*EDIT* Opened up access to anyone with the link, had it on private at first

Thank you! This thread was indeed missing a 'sheet lol. Good to have you join us!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #318 on: April 16, 2016, 01:07:26 PM »
I suppose I'll join in... It's crazy how week to week or month to month things seem so small, but crazy how things over years can add up. No house, just cash, investments, and SL's. Have been putting away ~$4k month or so.

Dec 2014   $101k
Jan 2015   $102k
Feb 2015   $116k
Mar 2015   $117k
Apr 2015   $117k
May 2015   $121k
Jun 2015   $120k
Jul 2015    $126k
Aug 2015  $123k
Sep 2015   $125k
Oct 2015   $139k
Nov 2015   $146k
Dec 2015   $147k
Jan 2016   $141k
Feb 2016   $149k
Mar 2016   $164k
Apr 2016   $172k
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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #319 on: April 17, 2016, 07:18:28 PM »
Checking back in on this challenge after a few months...   I've actually been going backwards...  Focused on paying off a used car purchase for youngest and saving for a new roof from job income that isn't going to be fun, but has to be done and is over 1/3rd saved up now...    Spendypants.

Without these debt paydown & roof expense, I'd be well into the $115-120k range by now which is about $15K since first of the year...   but as it is, I went backwards into the low 90k's.    The car note has another $8K to go, then that net monthly cash flow can go back to this challenge to growth.   Then the mortgage payoff club gets any windfalls/bonuses to free up that monthly "nut" in another year or so to go to the "growth" side as well...   That magic "100% debt free" goal is closer every day (we're now under 40% of the total debt we had before MMM and with greater passive income...   so financial freedom can and will be done)!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #320 on: April 29, 2016, 05:27:59 AM »
2015
June $105,555
July  $111,700
Aug  $112,494
Sep  $109,536
Oct   $117,581
Nov  $121,142
Dec  $128,574

2016
Jan  $125,464
Feb $128,024
Mar $136,905
Apr $142,895
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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #321 on: April 29, 2016, 06:44:58 AM »
Aug 2015: $133,000
Sept 2015: $147,097
Oct 2015: $153,200
Nov 2015: $155,986
Dec 2015: $154,299
Jan 2016: $156,663
Feb 2016: $158,332
Mar 2016 $182,654

Apr 2016: $186,898 + $15,000 pension

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #322 on: April 29, 2016, 07:07:35 AM »
We're getting closer!

Only a few more months I think. Then we can go to the Race Walk to 500k thread :)

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #323 on: April 29, 2016, 09:27:15 AM »
March 2016: $102,411
April 2016: $109,780

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #324 on: April 29, 2016, 10:56:39 AM »
Retirement only, does not include real estate or emergency savings:
January 2015: $98,619
February 2015: $102,414
March 2015: $104,001
April 2015: $106,458
May 2015: $106,866
June 2015: $107,133
July 2015: $107,090
August 2015: $102,260
September 2015: $103,731
October 2015: $106,389
November 2015: $107,314
December 2015: $105,826
January 2016: $101,235
February 2016: $101,464
March 2016: $117,072
April 2016: 120,517

Total NW including real estate and cash savings: $198,330.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #325 on: April 30, 2016, 12:34:19 AM »
March:  $109,021.70
April:    $115,969.24

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #326 on: April 30, 2016, 11:24:23 AM »
2/29/2016: $105,360
3/31/2016: $101,978

Well, this month is different. I always excluded real estate values, but last Friday, we bought a house. So I've got the rental and this house, and a new mortgage. And rather than having it look like I just took a quarter million dollar loss in net worth, I decided I need to start including real estate values. I'm using the purchase price for each property, which I'm hoping is conservative (both appraised for higher than the purchase price, and should hold their value in our relatively stable market.)

So, without any further ado, here's our new net worth:

4/29/2016: $262,438

I guess I'm in the wrong thread :)

Congrats!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #327 on: April 30, 2016, 12:44:13 PM »
2015
Jan 1st: 98,437.97
Feb 1st: $96,898.03
Mar 1st: $103,345.54
Apr 1st: $103,819.64
May 1st $105,766.12
Jun 1st $106,565.54
Jul 1st: $105,252.33
Aug 1st: $106,267.37
Sept 1st: $99,122.12
Oct 1st: $99,291.91
Nov 1st: $105,204.00
Dec 1st : $107,535.51

2016
Jan 1st:$104,592.84
Feb 1st: $99,467.66
March 1st:$101, 189.11
April 1st: $107,119.81
May 1st: $107,369.22   Stand still? Didn't feel like it.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #328 on: April 30, 2016, 03:07:39 PM »
   Cash & Investments   Increase         
               
Sep 1, 2015   100,370            
Oct 1, 2015   101,552   1,182         
Nov 1, 2015   105,260   3,708         
Dec 1, 2015   107,316   2,056         
Jan 1, 2016   108,641   1,325         
Feb 1, 2016   107,917   -724         
Mar 1, 2016   112,893   4,976         
Apr 1, 2016   115,730   2,837         
May 2, 2016   116,517   787         
               
               
* Cash and investments. House is paid off, worth approximately $250,000.               
               

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #329 on: April 30, 2016, 09:53:58 PM »
I'm in, I am currently at $219,713. I am including the house and am using personal capital to track. I hope to reach $250,000 by 10/2016 all going well!

3/25 - $219,713
4/30 - $229,057

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #330 on: April 30, 2016, 11:43:24 PM »
First month without a job, didn't do too shabby:

This months numbers:
May 2015:  $100,323.89
June 2015: $106,433.29
July 2015: $114,450.69
August 2015: $118,018.27
September 2015: $121,664.35
October 2015: $132,652.87
November 2015: $138,272.53
December 2015: $144,824.70
January 2016: $149,731.88
February 2016: $159,138.30
March 2016: $172,089.61
April 2016: $177,924.11

A gain of nearly $6,000 while being unemployed.  We did have some boarders come for a month, which sort of helped, though we spent about as much as we made on getting the room ready.  We have another one lined up for June through August.

Next month I'm not quite expecting to see as much growth as I did this month, but who knows, maybe I'll see more.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #331 on: May 01, 2016, 09:42:03 AM »
April 2015: $98k
May 2015: $111k
June 2015: $112k
July 2015: $113k
Aug 2015: $113k
Sept 2015: $116k
Nov 1 2015: $120,330.91
Dec 1 2015: $138,810.56

Jan 1 2016: $141,251.00
Feb 1 2016: $135,573.00
Mar 4 2016: $138,331.39
Apr 1 2016: $146,788.37
May 1 2016: $149,149.52

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #332 on: May 01, 2016, 11:09:34 AM »
Nov. 1 2015:  $101,701.11 --- gain of $8,228.48
Dec 1 2015:  $106,488.64 --- gain of $4,787.53
Jan. 1 2016:  $107,709.77 --- gain of $1,221.14
Feb. 1 2016:  $106,318.40 --- loss of $1,402.91

Mar. 1 2016:  $108,550.55 --- gain of $2,232.15
Apr. 1 2016:  $115,724.63 --- gain of $7,174.08  woohoo market swing up!
May 1 2016:  $119,946.35 --- gain of $4,221.72

At this rate, we will have less of a net worth increase this year than we did last year.  We are saving slightly more than last year.  I've been forgetting to post on here the last few months-I need to get better about that!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #333 on: May 01, 2016, 11:37:22 AM »
(Personal investments including college funds only; excludes cash, pension, and real estate)
Jul 2015   196,553
Aug 2015  192,205
Sep 2015 188,724
Oct 2015  207,028
Nov 2015 240,500
Dec 2015 248,758
Jan 2016 245,452
Feb 2016 249,608
Mar 2016 271,295 (Minus college fund is 248,483. So close!)
April 2016 274,222

Minus college fund is $251,521! Yay, graduating to the race to 500k thread
. At the current pace, it would take 3-4 years to get there, but we may restructure some things before then.

I went back through my records and discovered that it took us 5 years to reach the first 100k (lower pay, no kids, small house) and another 5 years to reach 200k (higher pay, 2 kids, bigger house). We reached 200k about a year ago, at around the time we discovered MMM. It only took us a year to get to 250k, so finding MMM and adjusting our spending and saving made a big difference!

Good luck to everyone else on this thread!
« Last Edit: May 02, 2016, 06:20:55 AM by Travelling Biologist »

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #334 on: May 01, 2016, 12:39:04 PM »
4/1: $100,869
5/1: $104,268

At the beginning of the road to $250k!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #335 on: May 01, 2016, 01:16:56 PM »


April 2016 274,222

Minus college fund is 251,521! Yay, graduating to the race to 500k thread

Congrats on the quarter mil :-)

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #336 on: May 02, 2016, 05:17:31 AM »
1/31/16 - $101,376.00
3/1/2016 - $102,990.00
4/1/2016 - $116,749.00

5/1/2016 - $119,487.00

Not a bad month at all.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #337 on: May 02, 2016, 05:34:58 AM »
Baby steps! Bought a ticket to Thailand and Japan to see family and depreciated an asset, so April growth was a little slower. However, I am also grateful to have received a substantial (15%+) raise that should speed up the pace moving forward :-)

4/1/2016             5/1/2016
$100,025.57   $101,430.24

Progress tracking spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z8OcegKpbeNJoqSI0nzoBuypFKqDD7BT2SS60oFEeCw/edit?usp=sharing

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #338 on: May 02, 2016, 07:09:34 AM »
March 2016: $124,848
April 2016: $129,352


I am pretty happy with the recent progress after months of stagnation. And I am so, so happy to have completed my first month back at work.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #339 on: May 02, 2016, 07:31:12 AM »
Investment Accounts only.

January 2015:   $77,300
July 2015:         $115,800
January 2016:   $124,100
February 2016: $127,500
March 2016:     $141,700
April 2016:        $152,300
Finally crossed the $150k line!  The rest of this year should be rather slow going as we front loaded our investments as much as possible this year.

May 2016:    $157,000

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #340 on: May 02, 2016, 08:02:05 AM »
Jan 1 2016 - $141,000
May 1 2016 - $172,000

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #341 on: May 02, 2016, 08:59:37 AM »
eugh, you guys all had a big jump last month- not sure why mine is a standstill- maybe because you all contribute way more than me?

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #342 on: May 02, 2016, 09:15:52 AM »
eugh, you guys all had a big jump last month- not sure why mine is a standstill- maybe because you all contribute way more than me?

Mine was a combo of +$2k contribution +$1k stock market +$2k commodities rally. 

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #343 on: May 02, 2016, 09:30:33 AM »
Thanks, I will just keep tracking you guys, and see if i am doing something wrong.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #344 on: May 02, 2016, 09:51:16 AM »
eugh, you guys all had a big jump last month- not sure why mine is a standstill- maybe because you all contribute way more than me?

My investment accounts didn't increase too much in April either (I don't have a whole invested and haven't contributed in six months)) but my investment properties are soaring in value and I made a few adjustments to that. Don't be discouraged if your investments are a little slower growing than other's, they may have more invested which creates bigger gains (and losses) and contribute more. We are really only racing ourselves here.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #345 on: May 02, 2016, 10:03:19 AM »
Thanks Guava :)

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #346 on: May 02, 2016, 12:01:42 PM »
Well looks like we are going to come in at around 223,700 as of May 1st. Increase of about 5k I think.... 

We are currently on a 3 week vacation in Greece so it's weird seeing our numbers continue to rise and the paychecks continue to roll in when we aren't working.  Got to love PTO!

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #347 on: May 02, 2016, 12:10:16 PM »

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #348 on: May 02, 2016, 02:11:35 PM »
Do you guys have the same calculation of rate of return on your accounts that i have on my Transamerica account?

Mine is  0.27% so far for the year, pretty crappy, but i don't understand (i don't understand many things yet) how it is calculated, even with the explanation below.

Rate of Return* Year to Date

0.27%
(01/01/2016 to 05/01/2016)

*Calculates the percentage change of your account balance by weighting all activity included in the time period measured. It includes your investment earnings during the period and is net of plan fees and credits. Indicated returns are cumulative for all periods shown.

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Re: Race from 100 to 250k
« Reply #349 on: May 03, 2016, 07:17:15 PM »


Do you guys have the same calculation of rate of return on your accounts that i have on my Transamerica account?

Mine is  0.27% so far for the year, pretty crappy,

Hmm my international (vtiax) is up 0.78% ytd but US (vtsax) is up 1.38%. What are you invested in? Also, that's the insurance outfit isn't it? My cousin works for them I think and makes good money, but the corollary is the investment type products he sells make less money for his clients.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!