September 2024 Dividend update

It seems like the days are flying by, and I am just trying to play catch up with busy life.

Yet it is time to reflect on past dividend collected and calculated the totals.  This time we will update September 2024 dividend income.

Without further ado let’s review September 2024 dividend income.  We collected a total of $604.95. 

Wow enough to pay for my car payment $399.40, which by the way has 2 payments left after November 2024.  I could also have covered my cell phone bill $110.00 and Verizon internet service $90.00 and still would have 5.55- to buy the kids some candy 😃.

How did you do in September 2024?

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August 2024 Dividend Update

 August 2024 Dividend update

Another month has passed us, and I am almost catching up with my monthly reports. Time to add my August 2024 report and see my progress so far.

Without further ado in August 2024, we received a total of $625.79.  That is real money that was re-invested to grow the dividend so one day it covers all my expenses.

How did you do in August or September 2024?

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July 2024 Dividend Update

 July 2024 Dividend Updates

I am almost catching up with reporting my monthly dividend collected.  Folks this is a real money each of the companies paid me to hold their stock. In other words it is the reward for being a shareholder of these companies.   

Without further ado let us review July 2024, updates and see how this is coming along. 

In July 2024, in our taxable accounts we received a total of $749.25.  Wow truly amazing seeing the number growing each month and every year with continue investments and re-investing the dividend until one day when I can start to use it for every day expenses. 

How did you do in July 2024, or the months following that?
We will update August 2024, in the coming days as I catch up with life and work. 

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June 2024 Dividend Update

 June 2024 Dividend Updates

Time seems to be passing us by so rapidly.  Months are coming and going so fast.  I am way overdue for reporting my dividend collected.

Without further ado here is my June 2024 dividend collect for the month of June: $603.68. 
That is real money collected passively and presently is reinvested in the same companies to build more passive income each month.

How did you do in June 2024, or the months following that?
We will update June 2024, in the coming days.

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MAY 2024 DIVIDEND UPDATE

 MAY 2024 DIVIDEND UPDATE

Another month to report dividend collected. I cannot believe we are almost in September 2024.  
It feels like time is speeding by at a speed of light.  But let’s quickly review dividend collect in May 2024.

Without further ado, here is dividend collect in May 2024.  In total in our taxable accounts we collected $729.24.

This is enough to pay for my car payment $399.40; T-Mobile cell phone bill $135.00; and one full tank refil at Mobil gas station $59.84 for the week.  

How did you do in May 2024, or the months following that?
We will update June 2024, in the coming days.
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April 2024 Dividend Update

 April 2024 Dividend Update

Where has the time gone?  It seems just like yesterday that I update March dividend collected.  So let us recap briefly our Dividend collected in April 2024.

Without further ado…. In April 2024, we collected $815.32 in dividend.  As you know we are not tracking Non-taxable accounts, as we are still 15 years away from access those accounts.

How did you do In April or the months following that?

We will update May and June in the coming days.

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March 2024 Dividend Updates

 March 2024 Dividend Updates

My favorite time of the month is here for yet another month.  Time to review monthly dividend collected and plan ahead for the next month and beyond.  This is real money and keeps growing each and every month.  

Without further ado let us review monthly dividend collected during the month of March 2024.

We collected a total of $590.21.  Mostly due to few companies (LTC, EXR, ES, PEP, KHC, GILD, TROW and AVGO) paying on April 1st instead of last day of March as usually between our accounts we hold some on Mrs. Dividend Pursuit and Dividend pursuit accounts.  They will be include in April total amounts.

Either way a solid month 😁 and we will keep on growing our dividend.

How did you do last month?

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February 2024 Dividend Updates

February 2024 Dividend updates

My favorite time of the month is reviewing dividends collected from previous months.  I realized I am way late reporting and updating my February 2024 numbers.  However, better late than never 😄.

So let us review February numbers and see where we are heading towards.  For February 2024, we collected $709.04 in Dividend in our Taxable accounts.

Dividend keeps pouring in, and growing each month.  

How did you do last month?

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January 2024 Dividend Updates

 January 2024 Dividend updates

It has been almost one (1) year since I last posted an update on my dividendos.  Well the dividends keeps on growing just have not had time to seat and type a post.  We are well on the way to our Financial Independence (FI) Number.  Retire Early (Re) portion is not part of our startegy since I will take some kind of Work when we reach the milestone. 

For now I will only track our non-taxable account and keep it short and sweet to keep me host.

So without further ado here is January Number, we collected a total of $699.90 between my accounts and Mrs. Dividend Pursuit accounts.  Positive Number and we will continue to grow this over the next new years.

This year will keep it simple and do a separate quartely review of our rental as well

How did you do last month?  Did you had a good month?

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April 2023 Dividend Updates

 April 2023 Dividend Updates

Wow!!! where have the time gone?  Time is flying by, with a new baby 2.0 Dividend Pursuit I barely have time while juggling work and rental properties.  I self manage these properties and this year we had one tenant moved out and now we have another one.  This time I will be hiring a contractor to do the work to turn the unit over.  We had a walk through this past Sunday and I am waiting for the quote so we can start working on the unit.  

But let us get back to the dividend collected in the month of April 2023.  

During April 2023, we collected a total of $792.70 in dividend wow!

The dividend was break down as follow: $738.40 in our taxable accounts and $54.30 in our tax advantage accounts.  

Just Amazing to see the dividend keep adding in the these accounts.

How did you do last month?  Did you had a good month?

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February 2023 Dividend Income Update

February 2023 Dividend Income Update

Where have the time gone?  Start of the new month is the time to stop and calculate dividends collected last month.  Our Rental continue to add to expenditure for the month leaving a negative cash flow for the 3rd month in a row.

But let us Focus on the passive Income from our dividend Income which continues to increase.  Without further ado here is the total dividend collected in February 2023:

We collected a total of $786.63, in passive dividend last month. 

We collected a total of $141.78 in our Taxable advantage accounts.  However, our focus nas been towards our taxable accounts which we can use once it covers our expensive.  We total $644.85 in our taxable accounts.

In February 2023, we had a negative cash Flow of $8700.00 in our Rental portofolio. We continue to deploy capital making improvements to our buildings, which Will provide a safe, clean and affordable apartments for families for years to come. 

How did you do last month?  Did you have a Great month as well?

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January 2023 Dividend Income

 JANUARY's 2023 DIVIDEND INCOME

January 2023, start the year with the market on the upswing rally.  Hopefully this is a sign of a better year versus 2022.  Our net worth also well up in January, which is a good thing mostly driven by the market.  Our Rental portfolio value stayed steady and its beginning to rebound towards the all time high achieve in early 2022.  We also welcome Jr. Dividend Pursuit #2, so sleep has been scarce so far this year, but we look forward to things getting better soon.  At least I am on paternity leave and do not have to drive two hours each way in Boston traffic for now.

Our theme for this year will be: 

1. Capital improvements in our rental property
2. increase our reserves and emergency funds
3. Travel internationally at least once
4. invest in target stocks in our taxable accounts and focus on index funds in our tax advantage accounts

Now without further ado let us review our January 2023 Dividend income.  For January 2023, we collected a total of $783.73, in passive dividends wow a new record for January for us.  

Just amazing the power of compounding has on the market and regularly invest in the market.  We tend to tune off the market daily gyrations and what Mr. Market does on a daily basis.  Instead we focus on our long term plan and regularly invest when capital are available.  

On our taxable account we collected a total of $721.70 in dividend and on our Tax advantage accounts we collected $62.03.

We continue to regularly invest and buy value stocks with the hope to hold them for long term.  At the same time we are also investing in our rental properties and continue to make capital improvements towards building long term wealth that will be passed on through our generation.

On our rental property Property #1, we finally found a new renter and they will be moving in February 2023.  We had cash flow of $165.00

Property #2 is a different story we had some unexpected expenses that total negative cash flow $17786.00, ouch!  

We expected more capital expenditure this year here in this property.  Property #1 will also need new windows in 2 out of 4 units are we are collecting quotes to make this improvements that will hopefully will keep the tenants here long term.

Hope you had a good month!  How did toy do last month?

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December 2022 Dividend Update

 December 2022 Dividend Update

    As we come to the close of 2022, it is time to look forward and start to plan for next year.  Dividend Pursuit household have a lot of plans to accomplish, including welcoming Jr #2, possible travels to Portugal and Dominica Republic or Mexico for vacation next year.  We also have a lot going on on projects with our rental portfolios.  But first let's close 2022 by review December 2022, dividend income collected this month.

Without further ado we close 2022 with a bang for sure, for the first time we cross the four (4) digit mark in dividend collected in our total accounts.  In December 2022, we collected $1054.43 Wow just incredible.  The power of compounding is truly amazing with addition of extra capital spend in different stocks we hold. 

 In our taxable accounts we collected a $971.25, in dividend passively and in our taxable advantage accounts we collected a total of $137.18, in dividend. 

For next year we will stock automatic investing and focus on collecting the dividend for different adventure we are planning, we are taking a sabbatical for saying in pursuing early retirement to spent time with the family, we are still in our early 40's and we will have time to achieve that within the next five (5) years, but we will not have the time with our kids now.  It is best to focus on family and enjoy the ride now instead of waiting until we reach Financial Independence (FI) to do that. 

Our rental part of our portfolio we did not do so well. One building had a sewage backup so far our expenses to fix, repair and cleanup are around $12000.00.  Ouch!!!  we also have a unit empty on another building that has left us with a negative cash flow for the month in the tunes of $1500.00. 

Next month I ill be focusing on completing renovate and clean up the unit and getting it ready for rent in February 2022.

How did you do last month?  Did you do well with your dividend income?

Thank you for visiting, back next year.

Dividend Pursuit

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October 2022 Dividend Income

October 2022 Dividend Update

    October has come and gone, the days seems to be going os quickly and running on the hamster wheel surely contributes to that.  That is my primary motivation to get out of the rat race and focus on my family and wellbeing enjoy life.  To that end I buy high quality dividend paying stocks and invest in real estate to build passive income to cover my expenses so one day I can run away from the rat race and live the life in my own terms.

So let us review last month dividend accumulate passively and see where we are currently in time to achieve Financial Independence (FI).  I don't really consider there Retirement Early (RE) part of FIRE as a goal.  I envision my self working either on my property or some other field which can allow time for work life balance.

Without further ado here is what we collected last month. A total of $522.49 in passive dividend collected for the month.  It is breakdown between taxable accounts and tax advantage accounts.

On the Taxable accounts we collected $461.20 in dividend income and on our tax advantage accounts we collected $61.29.  This is because most of our retirement account is invested in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) accounts as a federal employee I will also collect a modest pension which most likely will de defer until later. 

On our Real estate venture we have decided to collect from property #1 $695.00 and from property #2 we collect $542 which is a total of $1237 in monthly passive income, this will total $1759.49 in passive income for the month. 

the dividend is being re-invested monthly, although I stop automatic reinvestment and focus on buying beaten down stocks I hold.  With the market down as of late I may sell some for tax harvesting to save on tax before year end.

How did you do last month?

Did you had a good month last month?

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September 2022 Dividend Update

 September 2022 Dividend Update

Wow, where have the time gone.  I apologized for the delay in reporting.  it has been a crazy month for sure.  Mr. Market keeps seesaw with daily market gyrations.  As a long term investors I have been investing on a regular basis and with each passing month the dividend keeps on growing.

So without any further ado here is what we collected in September 2022:

Total dividend Collected $745.38, truly amazing month surely our best month since we started this journey to Financial Independence (FI).  In our Tax advantage accounts we collected $90.16, at least this will pay for our internet expenses when we retired after I reach 59 1/2 year old 😀.  On our taxable accounts we collected $655.22.  

Last month was an amazing month, we also collected passive income in our properties.  Property #1 collected $695.00 and Property #2 collected $542.00 for a total of $1892.22 in real money we can use now.  However, the money was reinvested to keep growing our dividend and possible a future property in the near future. This also covered 40% of our expenses for the month.

How did you do last month?

Did you had a great month as well?

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August 2022 Dividend Updates

 August 2022 Dividend Update

     A new month and busy as ever, but nothing like taking the time to count the dividend collected last month.  Mr. Market keeps going up and down in a seesaw move every single day the market gyrations for sure can cause heart attack if you pay to munch attention to it.  I find that finding stable paying dividend companies and keep building my shares with every opportunity is a better long term solutions for me.

Have you been investing and continue to do so with every market gyrations?

Lately I have been selling some stocks I don't see me holding longterm and also this will allowed me to focus on few stocks.  We have gone from 87 individual stocks to closer to 65 with the goal to trim down to 60 or fewer this year.  Of course the profit in some cases the proceeds have been reinvested in the companies I will be keeping long term.

But with out any further ado, let's review last month dividend collected.  We collected a total of $693.25, in dividend last month.  Of which $149.34 was in our tax advantage accounts and $543.91 was in our taxable accounts. 

WOW, the dividend keeps adding up with each passing months.  Last month the dividend would had cover our Car payment $399.20, Verizon fios $74.99, Amazon subscription 14.99,  parking payment $35.00 and T-Mobile cell $168.00.  This will still leave $1.07, which I could had bought a pack of chewing gum.  Truly an amazing month for sure.  

In the real estate side of things we also had a positive cash flow for the first time in a long time in our rental properties.  All our units are finally rents and everyone is up to date on payment now.  We will be working in replenish our reserves and build up cash for a future real estate rental property to add to our portfolio, which will get us closer to FI in the next two (2) years.

How did you do last month?  Did you also had a good month?

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July 2022 Dividend Update

 July 2022 Dividend Update

Where have the time gone.  It feels like June was just over, now July is over as well and we are halfway toward end of August.  Well it is time to count the dividend from last month albeit late to the party here hahaha.  My family just return from 7-day trip to Orlando and Tampa area, we did not plan any activities and hope to just relax at the pool and beach.  We accomplish both so my happiness level is at 7 out of 10 currently.  

But without further ado let us review the dividend we collected last month.  For the month of July 2022, we collected a total of $435.58 in passive dividend.  We collected $58.09 in our taxable advantage accounts and $377.49 in taxable accounts.  Another great month as we continue to collect dividend passively. 

From dividend we collected I could had cover our car payment on the 2019 Toyota Tacoma for $399.20 and my monthly parking for $35.00.  But the dividend collected was reinvested to keep growing the dividend organically and with additional purchases.  

How did you do last month?  I Hope you had a great month as well.  

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June 2022 Dividend Update

 June 2022 Dividend Update

    Where have the time gone?  I apologized for the late post, the last two months have been very hectic.  We had two tenants move out on two different buildings and two different city.  It took almost the whole month to turn the apartment and rent them out.  Now I can take a little bit and focus on my dividend growth strategy.  

Without further ado let's review last month dividend collected.  Last month we collected a total of $654.45 in dividend from all our accounts. 

Another month over $600 in dividend collected passively.  Just a great feeling!!!

During June 2022, we collected a total of $100.45 in our taxable advantage accounts.  That means we collect a total of $554.00 in our taxable accounts, which is a third away from my target.

Last month we did not re-investe all our dividends on the same stocks, but we used to buy dividend stocks that were down during that month.  In the end it will all even out I think.

How did you do last month?  Did you had a great month as well?

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May 2022 Dividend Income

May 2022 Dividend Report 

Month of May is finally over, so much happened last month that it felt that the month flew by.  Mr. Market saw a seesaw only create fear and suspense on a daily basis. The war in Ukraine and the inflation only creates doubt over long term.  What to do for a dividend investor seemed to be a daily question as we navigate to the day to day last month.  Over the years that I have been investing I can only ponder on the past outcomes and see the long term sustainability of investing on a regular basis.

With that been said let us now review our last month dividend income for the month of May 2022.  Last month we collected a total of $665.95 in dividend income over all our accounts.  We did sell some and took profit and re-invested in beaten down stocks that we wish to hold long term.  We now have a full positions in few stocks that we down and continue to invest on a regular basis.

We collected a total of $164.54 in our tax advantage accounts and collected a total of $501.41 in our taxable accounts.  Overall we did very well.  Our net worth also grew last month over $800000.00 for the first time. Over 70% is in our real estate holding and we continue to look for ways to save and possibly built upon our real estate holdings in the next few years.  Realistically we are now getting closer to our Financial Independence (FI) number and we starting to thing of ways to conserve cash.  for the rest of this year that will be our primary concerns and continue to built our emergency fund to six (6) months to year in reserves. 

Hope you had a wonderful month last month?  How was your dividend collected last month?  What are your plans to FI and are you closer to your goals? 

Please share your comments below.

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Dividend Update for month of April 2022

 Dividend Update April 2022

New month, Mr. Market continue to be very volatile, the Inflation, the war in Ukraine and many more worthy news daily that can cause fear and panic to sell.  However, we are mostly buy and hold investors.  But this does not mean we do not sell when necessary.  Last month and half we sold few positions only to diversify our holdings.  Overall I am pretty content with our current holdings.  Some positions took a nose dive with the current market volatility which only cemented by thought process to diversify, since we purchase some of those holding back in March 2020 and April 2020, so we were at the high end of some of those stocks.

However, it is a new month so without further ado let us review last month total dividend collected for the month of April 2022.

Last month we collected a total of $554.74.  Wow, That is three (3) months in a row with over $500 in dividend.  We also have collected year -to-date a total of $2125.23 in dividend this year so far.

Dividend Pursuit	January 2022	February 2022	March 2022	April 2022
$2,125.23	$447.16	$505.30	$618.03	$554.74
TAX Advantage	$100.67	$141.73	$87.46	$92.86
HSA account	$12.83	$14.13	$0.37	$0.00
Mrs. Dividend Pursuit	$82.82	$78.70	$72.27	$84.32
Individual	$248.88	$270.30	$454.98	$376.81
M1 Finance	$1.96	$0.44	$2.95	$0.75
TOTAL	$447.16	$505.30	$618.03	$554.74

We collected in $92.86, in our tax advantage accounts and we also collected $461.88 in our taxable accounts.  We continue to see growth each month compared to previous year amount this month we increased our dividend 64% from April 2021.  The power of compounding with new investment is fueling our dividend increases.

How did you do last month, did you had a great month as well?

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Disclaimer: I’m not a licensed investment advisor and not an investment professional. This site is only meant for educational or entertainment purposes only. I’m not liable for any losses suffered as a result. Please consult with an investment or tax professional before investing any of your money.