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2025 Financial Wrap Up

Published on January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 by 1 Comment

Welcome to our 2025 financial wrap up blog. What a year!

2025 was a year of adjustments, challenges and getting acquainted with our new normal. It hasn’t been all roses, but we are very happy. Scratch that. We are happy and we working on some things that will make us more happy.

The transition from living in an RV to moving back into a house has been a bumpy ride. From a financial standpoint it has been very expensive. Trying to furnish an entire home is not cheap. It’s also not as fun as it used to be when we were younger. Getting reacquainted with the number of bills that come with home ownership is even less enjoyable. Water, trash, electric, tv, internet, POA, insurance and worst of all property taxes. BLAH!!

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Q3 2025 Financial Update

Published on October 27, 2025October 26, 2025 by 2 Comments

It’s been a couple of months since our last financial update and there is no better time than now.

The markets have been on fire! But, we might be getting to that point where a pullback could be inevitable. We have certainly enjoyed watching our portfolio rebound to our pre home build levels. However, the reality is that the markets can’t go up forever. At some point there needs to be a pullback or even a correction. No one wants it to happen, but that’s what healthy markets do.

This year end could be similar to 2024. We had a good run until end of year profit taking started and the market fell pretty good. That would be ok though as it would set up nicely for 2026. But, what might keep the ball rolling this year are rate cuts.

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Dividend Portfolio Update

Published on October 9, 2025October 8, 2025 by 2 Comments

Welcome back for another dividend portfolio update!

Since our last update we have continued to execute on our plan of making regularly scheduled contributions. The markets continue to hit all time highs so it’s been slim pickings for individual stocks. However, there are some opportunities out there. With the current environment we have mostly stuck to adding shares to our ETF positions in SCHD, JEPI and JEPQ.

We do have a couple of positions that haven’t participated in the run up. Normally this is where we would direct our available funds. However, most of these positions are also the same ones we have identified and put on the chopping block. This is because they no long fit our investment strategy. The fact that they are having bad year is just an annoying inconvenience for the time being.

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July 2023 Dividend Portfolio Update

Published on August 1, 2023April 11, 2026 by 1 Comment

The summer is flying by and it’s hard to believe it’s already time for our July dividend portfolio update! Going into the month we were prepared for a weakness after a strong performance in June. However, the markets had other plans as our dividend portfolio zoomed to new highs. This time it was the big guns like J&J, Abbvie and even MMM that rebounded from lows and added some much needed spark to our portfolio. Of course there always has to be a few dogs and this month it was telecom a AT&T and Verizon fulfilling that role.

That brings us to the steaming pile of garbage that is Warner Brother Discovery. I had high hopes for this company after the spinoff from AT&T. Their presence in streaming and large portfolio of content should have push growth and set the company and investors up for success. But those hopes have pretty much been dashed as this company turned into a giant turd that can’t seem to do anything right.

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Dividend Portfolio Update

Published on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 by RV-on-FIRE.com2 Comments

Hello again! It’s been a little over a month since we gave an update on our little dividend portfolio and there are quite a few things to report. We have added some new positions, increased some positions in current holdings and of course we have the DRIP slowly helping our portfolio grow. Before we get into some of the details let’s take a look at the current make up of our account as of now. I have sorted in alphabetical order to make it easier to read:

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