Investing During the COVID-19 Pandemic – The Details Behind a $385,000 Capital Deployment

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It is crazy to think it was only a few short months ago that the stock market (as measured by the S&P 500) was making new all-time highs. How far it feels like we are from that right now… Were you ready? Was anyone? But how do you plan and prepare for a pandemic? I don’t know if you can, at least not directly. I do believe that financial prudence is always the right path pandemic or not, which I define as spending less than you make, keeping low to no leverage, investing part of your savings (with a margin of safety), and saving the rest for a rainy day (or a really bad storm…otherwise known as a pandemic). Then …

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Annual Shareholder Letter

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Dear Fellow Shareholders, I have always wanted to be in a position of writing an annual shareholder letter. Before starting my own company I had religiously read all of Warren Buffett’s letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. I even bought a book that compiled every single letter from 1965 through 2014. Now after years as a spectator and fantasizer, I finally get to write my first letter to shareholders (all two of us as of 3/31/20 with a third that joined us on 4/1/20). Our Early Beginnings The official founding of the company was February 25, 2019 – the date I first registered a DBA as a sole proprietor. I had started contemplating this business back in June of …

Mint Mobile – A Hell of a Deal!

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This post focuses on the expense side of the equation, which is unusual for this blog. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic expenses are one of the only things in my control at the moment. In times of crisis, it’s important to remain calm and focus on those things that you can control. The bright side is that this has actually presented a great opportunity to really evaluate our expenses and place more scrutiny on expenses that may be greatly inflated vs. alternative options on the market. I have been a Verizon customer for years and have never really evaluated the other players – big or small. Supposedly, Verizon is the best in terms of coverage – a …

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March 2020 – Detailed Financial Report #63

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Did the world change overnight? One minute markets were making all-time highs, unemployment was at a 50 year low, and time was passing by at a pace that “felt” faster than “normal.” Then all of a sudden COVID-19 dominated the headlines as a pandemic sweeping the globe and bringing the world’s economies to a standstill. As I type this, a third of the world is on government order to “shelter in place” in order to try and flatten the infection curve of the virus. The forecasts for unemployment are not looking good as economists say we could see 20-30% unemployment due to mass layoffs across the economy (with travel, hospitality, and restaurants getting hit the hardest). I’ve never seen anything …