Another Saturday is here and is see flurries coming down again. Aside from the cold weather, I have to say this has been my best week yet coping with our new normal. I am not exactly sure what clicked, but my overall stress level has normalized and my mood has generally been positive about everything. It is pretty amazing how adaptable humans are. I already enjoy the simple things life has to offer, but that...
Max has been doing some light networking with a few other writers and bloggers out there who actually know what they are doing. One of those writers is Kim from The Frugal Engineers. Kim is a Stanford graduate and licensed professional engineer. She started her blog right around the same time I launched Max Out of Pocket and has been able to move it along at a much quicker pace. As I like to say,...
This was the first week since starting my questionable blogging career that I just didn’t feel like writing. Call it a lack of motivation. Even up until this morning, I was going to take a week off from the “Max’s Back Pocket” series. Perhaps some of the stress and complete routine destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is catching up to me. Even Mrs. Max OOP wasn’t 100% this week. We also got some snow;...
Another week came and went. It seems like just yesterday I was watching coverage of China’s plan to build two hospitals in 10 days. I saw video footage of hundreds of excavators, bulldozers, front-loaders, and cranes working on clearing the site. That was way back in late January and it felt like this thing was a world away. I remember blowing it off. Now, COVID-19 has all but permanently changed our daily life. I couldn’t...
I hear a lot of recommendations that I should hold my healthcare REITs in tax-advantaged accounts. The theory is the taxman will hit us hard if we hold these assets in taxable accounts. That’s because REITs shell out nonqualified dividends that get taxed like regular income. I touched on this briefly when I talked about where I keep my medical office buildings. At the time of writing that post, as recommended, I was holding almost...