PeerStreet – $0 to $77,089.49 in 5 Months

I wrote about PeerStreet for the first time back in March of 2017 after I had been invited to visit their HQ and interview their founders. Since then I have aggressively grown my investment accounts with them in a little less than five months. I want to take a deeper dive into the platform and […]
[Guest Post] Readers Experience Investing in Real Estate on Crowdfunding Platforms

Today a reader takes control of the GYFG keyboard and shares his experience investing in real estate through various platforms, including my favorite PeerStreet (my $80,000 portfolio will be revealed in about two weeks). RadCrowd as he goes by online, has some great takeaways, so be sure to read entire post. By RadCrowd My journey into real estate crowdfunding […]
My Dog’s Perspective on Frugality, Fun, & Finance

Do you ever realize how happy your dog is just being “present?” I think we could all learn a thing or two observing how a dog takes time to smell the roses (among other things). I often wonder what is going on in my dog’s mind. My wife and I will even go so far […]
June 2017 – Detailed Financial Report #30 – Net Worth $571,210 | Income $31,672

GYFG here checking in for the June monthly financial report. If you have been reading these reports for a while you will notice that I introduce each month with the same intro month after month. I do this for two reasons; a) for the newbies to the site (which make up about 50% of the sites […]
Passive Income – We Need $120,000 To Cover Our Living Expenses – Where Are We And How Do We Get There?

Late last year I shared a post with you guys on increasing the GYFG household income to $600,000 annually, and in that post there were two concerns that I said I wanted to start addressing in 2017: Concentration Risk – In 2016, approximately $27,000 of the $340,000 that we earned came from passive sources (or about […]