One month down and we are done with January. Yep that was a fast month seems like yesterday we were just waking up to the year. Where does time go? After my successful 2016 we are excited to see how successful 2017 will be. It is time now to see what the damage is and to see wether i weep or cry.
To start off with im going to be adding my mutual fund which pays monthly dividends to my accounting so that will be something new. It is from USAA and is USHYX had it for while but never thought of reporting it till recently. so that will be figured in from now on.
So the month of January saw m3 make 2 buys OHI andadded to AGNC. I also added to my mutual fund a little as its free to add.
So lets see what we did
11 companies and 1 mutual fund paid me a dividend 188.41 from Sharebuilder. STS paid a special dividend which is nice. Last January i got 152.62 So just the sharebuilder increase is 23.4. factoring in the mutual fund brings it up to 35.7. wish i could up my dividends that much every month for a few years. Daily this dividend adds up to 6.95 a day while not a lot but is closing in on minimum wage this would buy at least 1 cup of coffee a day at 2.00 and still leave room left over
Raises for this Month anounced O, OHI, and NRZ. announced last year and recieved this month was O and CIM.
It is exciting looking forward as the stocks i bought in the second half last year are starting to come to frutation and see you can see the dividend growth I am starting to get.
Since the USHYX is variable rate i will give the expected dividends from sharebuilder account. So far this year my expected dividends is supposed to 2,260.92.
How was your month.
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My life of investing and hobbies 
Very nice month for you. Looks like that passive income is increasing slowly which is good. All the best.
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Yup slowly but that is all I need a little here a little there and bam I have all I need in 15-20 years
Thanks for stopping by.
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Got to love those dividend increases! Compounding is going to quickly take effect before you even realize it. I am just starting out as I only just began work but I got $15. I expect very little in February then close to $70 for March due to purchases I and my making
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Have to start somewhere just like all of us and with the info available you are way ahead of me in terms of starting off. If I knew now what I knew then I’d have at least 1,000 a month or close to it
Keep chugging along and thanks for stopping by
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Great results. It’s a nice way to start out the year. I had a good January, more than $500 in dividends and $1,400 in options.
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500 is awesome but those options numbers are out of the park. Thanks for stopping by
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My month was as expected – not a ton in January but waiting for March to see the big dollars this quarter.
Looks solid for you too – the projected income looks good and is sure to grow.
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Yup it will grow and hopefully sometime next year pass the 3,000 mark that’s what’s so awesome about this is every dividend raise adds to the total. Thanks for stopping by.
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Heck yeah! Nice job and what a way to start off 2017. 12 different holdings paying you a check and you were able to earn that income without lifting a finger. That is what I’m talking about right there. Can’t wait to see what the rest of 2017 has in store for you!
Bert
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I am happy, best January ever so far. Hopefully i can increase that 12 someday but it really doesnt matter which month i think as long as it pays lol. Thanks for stopping buy
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Congrats on the big increase over this time last year; it’s always very motivating to see higher increases especially when starting out.
Looking forward to seeing even more increases as you continue investing this year!
Best wishes,
-DL
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I wish I was just starting out lol. But I’ll take the big increase no matter when.
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I’m sorry – not sure why I was thinking that. I think I was distracted by thoughts of free daily coffee 🙂 I’d take a 30% increase too!
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If I was smart early on I would have a lot more lol
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Wow, you crushed it this January! Good collection of stocks paying you. I love how you relate it being able to buy a cup of coffee each day with money left over. We’re all so caught up in reinvesting our dividends that we sometimes forget that eventually it will be really cool to live off them!
Scott
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Yup got the idea from someone else though so it’s not unique to me. He breaks it down into hourly pay. So I added a little to it. Can’t remember his site though. Thanks for stopping by
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Nice month. You have a lot of companies that pay in January. Good way to start out the year. Keep that snowball rolling!
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Just a few companies i do want more though. gonna try to do that while building up
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Great start to the year!
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Thanks. Hopefully I can get up to were you are someday .
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How can anyone not like dividends? You are paid to own stocks and they give periodic raises and you don’t have to do anything, sign me up ! Good results, keep at it.
-Brian
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Yup best thing ever just wish I was smarter earlier
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Nice going indeed. I saw you realized great growth in the last couple of years. Keep it going.
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I hope I can keep it for a few more years
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$200 a month. nice sign me up. Great work. congrats on all those dividend increases
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Thank you
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Nice update Doug and it’s good to see you’re really building up the dividends.
Tristan
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Thanks i hope to continue building them lol. Thanks for stopping by
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Great way to kick off the year – congrats! We share WMT and O in common; gotta love the monthly dividends from O, am I right?
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Yep love those monthly dividends. Thanks for stopping by
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