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Categories
- Anno Darwinii
- Blog updates
- Building the Empire
- Covid-19
- Doctor Life
- Editor’s Picks
- Finance 101
- FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)
- Health
- Home and Garden
- Letters to my Sons
- Mindset
- Personal Finance
- Real Estate Investment
- Recommendations
- Side Gigs
- Taxes
- Tesla
- The PPhREI Network
Anno Darwinii
- Earnings Evolution | Anno Darwinii 4.0
- 95% Occupancy and $600k Revenue | Anno Darwinii 3.75
- Our Short Term Rental Gamble Pays Off | Anno Darwinii 3.5
- $325k Annual Gross Income | Anno Darwinii 3.25
- $50,000 Monthly Gross Rental Income | Anno Darwinii 3.0
- The Real Estate Empire is Bleeding | Anno Darwinii 2.75
- $127,000 of Gross Revenue | Anno Darwinii 2.5
- Patience is a Virtue in Real Estate Investing [Anno Darwinii 2.25]
- The real estate empire hits $3 million | Anno Darwinii 2.0
- $29,000 of Cash flow | Anno Darwinii 1.75
- Buying a 10 unit apartment building | Anno Darwinii 1.5
- Leaks, fires, and pit bulls (oh my!): Anno Darwinii 1.25
- The real estate empire has grown! Anno Darwinii 1.0
- Rental empire under siege: Anno Darwinii 0.75
- Update on the Rental Empire: Anno Darwinii 0.5
- Update on the rental empire: Anno Darwinii 0.25
Blog updates
- How to Control Your Financial Destiny [My First eBook]
- A New Mission and New Look for The Darwinian Doctor
- 3 months post identity reveal | Blog + life update
- 100th blog post: secret identity revealed!
- Winter blog update 2020: 151k pageviews!
- Blog Update: Spring 2020
- 10,000 Pageviews! Blog update – Autumn 2019
- The Darwinian Doctor Blog update | June 2019
- State of the blog and update on the jelly fig plants
- The Darwinian Doctor Affiliate Policy
- Introduction to the Darwinian Doctor
Building the Empire
- Water is a Real Estate Investor’s Worst Enemy | Building the Empire
- Getting Trapped in an Airbnb | Building the Empire
- From Desert Heat to Snow via the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway!
- Selling My First Rental Property for a Loss | Building the Empire
- Cash flow for the holidays | Building the Empire
- Permits and Pivots | Building the Darwinian Empire
- A Pool in Palm Springs | Building the Empire
Covid-19
- The Covid-19 Vaccine: my experience with the side effects
- What it’s like flying during the Covid-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 basics: Why it’s so much worse than the flu
- What to expect from COVID-19: Are the symptoms deadly?
- It’s working! How social isolation is flattening the COVID-19 curve
Doctor Life
- Bulletproof Vests, Doctors, and Angry Patients: the Problem of Violence in Healthcare
- 3 Downsides of Locum Tenens Medicine You Should Know
- My Hiatus from Medicine: 3 Eye-Opening Revelations
- 9 Best Ways that Doctors can Give Back
- 7 Ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) will Revolutionize Healthcare
- The Physician Shortage: A Threat to the American Healthcare System
- 3 Reasons Why I’m Grateful To Be a Physician
- Doctors are More Burnt Out. Is it Being Employed or Just Covid?
- Four Physicians Walk into a Bar…
- The Comedy of “Home Call”
- Why Doctors Shouldn’t Paint Their Own House
- Why It Seems Like All Doctors Are Quitting Medicine
- How Physician Coaching Changed My Life [Review of the Alpha Coaching Experience]
- Will Healthcare Survive The Great Resignation?
- A New Resource for Residents who are Thinking of Quitting
- 17 Best Cities for Doctors to Live in the US
- 5 types of doctors that hate call the most
- How our jobs are killing us
- A devastating fall changes this doc’s life forever
- Physicians are trapped by golden handcuffs
- Switching residency programs from surgery to psychiatry
- My son got a reading award! (But I couldn’t be there)
- How to survive intern year of residency: The basics
- Quitting residency after intern year
- What’s a surgeon work week like? | Life after residency
- Handsfree Blog Post from behind the wheel!
- The Epidemic of Physician Burnout
- The Darwinian Doctor’s 13 Monthly Expenditures (with real numbers)
- Golden Handcuffs: Why I can’t quit my day job (for now)
- Why I chose medicine, and why this is still a good choice for your career
- Student Loan Management Mistakes: How one mistake added $10,000 to my debt
Editor’s Picks
- A Darwinian Doctor origin story: the meatball sub
- The Darwinian Doctor’s 13 Monthly Expenditures (with real numbers)
- What is moFIRE (morbidly obese FIRE) and why do I want it?
- How Rental Cash Flow Cut 5 Years Off Our Plan to moFIRE
- How we amassed an investment portfolio of over $1 million
- Physicians are trapped by golden handcuffs
- Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 1
- The real estate empire hits $3 million | Anno Darwinii 2.0
- Introducing the Physician Real Estate Investor Network: PhREI
Finance 101
- The 2 Ways to Reach Financial Independence [Finance 101]
- Marginal Tax Rate vs Average Tax Rate: What’s the Difference?
- Compound Interest: the Key to Building Wealth
- 3 Simple Steps to Automate Your Finances
- How to Save, Invest, and Become Rich
FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)
- A FIRE Icon Goes Back to Work
- Partial Financial Freedom is Awesome Too!
- The 2 Ways to Reach Financial Independence [Finance 101]
- How to enjoy your journey to financial independence
- The sushi wealth test
- Love your job? Why you should plan for FIRE anyway
- The 3 simple steps to achieve FIRE
- SEPP plans: How to access your retirement accounts before age 59 ½
Health
- How our jobs are killing us
- Rich people live longer with better health
- Organic food and cancer risk
- 5 great reasons to drink coffee every day!
- The Epidemic of Physician Burnout
- 5 Exercises to Do on Your Morning Commute
Home and Garden
- First fig of the summer | 2021
- Autumn garden update 2020: Potatoes, peppers and tree pruning
- The Darwinian Doctor’s most important investment of 2020
- A Darwinian summer of cake and salad
- First figs of the pandemic
- Childcare in the age of COVID-19
- Figs and finances
- The Darwinian Doctor hacks date night
- Gratitude and Thanksgiving in 2019
- Autumn Garden Update 2019: Tuscan melons!
- Picking chestnuts in Seattle (a horse chestnut warning)
- First figs of the summer | 2019
- Kids play structure complete!
- Fig tree and garden update | Spring
- State of the blog and update on the jelly fig plants
- Children’s book recommendations for the young scientist
- How to prevent keyboard marks on your laptop screen
- Update on the Jelly Fig cuttings: They’re alive!
- How to grow a cutting from a fig tree
- First Fig of the Summer!
Letters to my Sons
- Your Health is Your Wealth | Letters to My Sons
- Your Mom Is a Badass | Letters to My Sons
- Have the Courage to Change Your Life | Letters to My Sons
- The world isn’t all sunshine and palm trees | Letters to my sons
- Why I’m home for breakfast these days | Letters to my sons
Mindset
- When Does This Game Get Good? (Arrival Fallacy and my Yale Reunion)
- Don’t Be a Prisoner of Your Former Self
- How Physician Coaching Changed My Life [Review of the Alpha Coaching Experience]
- Why I’m buying experiences, not things
- Is this the secret of life coaching?
- Your mindset makes your success
- The battle between YOLO and FIRE
- Time: your most valuable asset
- FIRE: my mid-life crisis
- How to have gratitude for your present while dreaming of the future
- Why you must stretch for your SMART goals
- My Why: family, friends, and freedom
- You have amazing potential
- My son got a reading award! (But I couldn’t be there)
- 4 simple steps to massive success with symbiotic goals
Personal Finance
- No Work, No Pay: The Harmful Myth Holding You Back
- The Valley of Disappointment | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-21-23
- How Moving to Memphis Cost Us $500k
- Doc2Doc Lending: A Solution for Physicians and Dentists
- The 401k vs Real Estate | What’s the Better Investment?
- Millionaires Aren’t What They Used to Be
- 5 Discoveries from Our Memphis Geoarbitrage Experiment
- The Mexican Fisherman is in Trouble
- Partial Financial Freedom is Awesome Too!
- Resident Physicians Win! | The Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
- Wealth Is Not a Zero Sum Game
- The Amazing Power of Geoarbitrage
- Why You Need to Invest When the Market Is Down
- Why Doctors Shouldn’t Paint Their Own House
- Why is the Federal Reserve Raising Interest Rates?
- How I Failed at Refinancing my Student Loans (Avoid my Mistakes!)
- The Darwinian Doctor’s Net Worth and Asset Allocation | Early 2022
- Are My Meals Tax Deductible in 2022?
- What Does FUTA Stand for in Payroll? [Federal Unemployment Tax Act]
- Marginal Tax Rate vs Average Tax Rate: What’s the Difference?
- Will Healthcare Survive The Great Resignation?
- Money is Scary [But it Doesn’t Have to Be]
- The Best Way to Research and Track your Stock Portfolio: Stock Card
- 3 Simple Steps to Automate Your Finances
- Why the Rich Get Richer [Again]
- How to Save, Invest, and Become Rich
- Security Backed Line of Credit (SBLOC): Never Sell Stocks Again
- Amazing Tax Deductions from Your Short Term Rental
- 17 Best Cities for Doctors to Live in the US
- Why I’m buying experiences, not things
- How much cash flow do you need to change your life?
- The sushi wealth test
- My individual stock portfolio revealed
- 3 ways to tell good debt from bad debt
- The battle between YOLO and FIRE
- Invest in assets or pay down your student debt?
- Revealing My Secret Strategy to Pay My Huge Student Debt
- SEPP plans: How to access your retirement accounts before age 59 ½
- Rich people live longer with better health
- 7 Financial Habits of Highly Successful Physicians
- How rental cash flow cut 5 years off our plan to moFIRE
- Why doctors are such bad investors
- The 3 best ways to estimate your home value (aka: How I “lost” $1 million overnight)
- Why your net worth isn’t as useful as you think
- The Darwinian Doctor’s net worth
- Health savings accounts (HSAs): the holy grail of personal finance
- Is owning a home a good investment? 10 years of home ownership in LA, analyzed
- How the pandemic changed our spending
- How a mortgage refinance dropped my credit score 35 points
- End of year investments update | 2019
- What’s a hedge fund? I interview a hedge fund manager to find out.
- The Simple Path to Wealth: a TDD Book Review
- Why I bought a Tesla Model 3
- How accurate are credit score simulators?
- Retire on Real Estate by K. Kai Anderson: a TDD book review
- Mid year investments and goals update | 2019
- Why the rich don’t feel rich
- You can’t buy avocado toast with VTSAX (Why cash flow is king)
- Inheritance and Intergenerational wealth transfer
- Retirement via an Accessory Dwelling Unit (My Parental Support Solution)
- Increase your credit score by 25 points in 4 weeks
- Detours on the road to financial independence
- How we amassed an investment portfolio of over $1 million
- The fastest way to improve your credit score
- A Darwinian Doctor origin story: the meatball sub
- My 15 year plan to financial independence, moFIRE style
- How to calculate your net worth and savings rate
- What is moFIRE (morbidly obese FIRE) and why do I want it?
- The Darwinian Doctor’s 13 Monthly Expenditures (with real numbers)
- Golden Handcuffs: Why I can’t quit my day job (for now)
- The great blessing of inflation
- Student Loan Management Mistakes: How one mistake added $10,000 to my debt
Real Estate Investment
- Earnings Evolution | Anno Darwinii 4.0
- 5 Reasons Why I’m Finally Investing in a Real Estate Syndication
- Palm Springs Short Term Rental Regulations: An Insider’s Guide
- How to Create the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Team
- The ChatGPT AI Roadmap to Short Term Rental Success
- The Stealth Wealth Strategy of Principal Paydown
- 95% Occupancy and $600k Revenue | Anno Darwinii 3.75
- Buyer Agent vs. Seller Agent: What’s the Difference?
- The 401k vs Real Estate | What’s the Better Investment?
- 9 Creative Financing Strategies for Real Estate Investment
- 2022 Rental Income Report from our Indianapolis Portfolio
- Investing with a HELOC: A Physician’s Analysis of the Risks and Benefits
- Is it the Right Time to Buy Real Estate?
- Our Short Term Rental Gamble Pays Off | Anno Darwinii 3.5
- 15 Things to do When Your House Doesn’t Sell
- How a Cost Segregation with Engineered Tax Services got me a $105k Tax Refund
- $325k Annual Gross Income | Anno Darwinii 3.25
- 4 Reasons Why Apartment Buildings are the Best Real Estate Investment in a Recession
- The $18k Roof Repair | The Importance of Financial Reserves
- 5 Month Income Report from Our Luxury Cabin Rental
- How the Federal Reserve Might Crash the Real Estate Market
- How to Transform Your Home From a Liability into an Asset
- Water is a Real Estate Investor’s Worst Enemy | Building the Empire
- Entering the Broken Bow Short Term Rental Market | Building the Empire
- How to Calculate Asset Allocation as a Real Estate Investor
- 3 Things I Learned from Hosting a Real Estate Conference
- Selling My First Rental Property for a Loss | Building the Empire
- Permits and Pivots | Building the Darwinian Empire
- $127,000 of Gross Revenue | Anno Darwinii 2.5
- 9 Best Steps to do When Your House Gets Robbed
- Delaware Statutory Trust: Asset Protection for California Real Estate Investors
- 3+ Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy Property in a Bad Neighborhood
- Patience is a Virtue in Real Estate Investing [Anno Darwinii 2.25]
- Amazing Tax Deductions from Your Short Term Rental
- The Carpe Diem MD Short Term Rental Course: My Review
- 5 Simple Steps to Contest a Low Home Appraisal [My Success Story]
- Active under contract (Contingent) vs Pending: can you still make an offer?
- Are we headed for another housing crash?
- Do you have to invest in real estate as a doctor?
- Getting a mortgage is painful. Why this is a good thing.
- The real estate empire hits $3 million | Anno Darwinii 2.0
- The best time to buy a short term rental property
- The 5 ways rental real estate makes you money
- The benefits of hustle and self-management
- The 5 types of real estate investors
- $29,000 of Cash flow | Anno Darwinii 1.75
- How to pick a real estate investment market
- How to decide between local or long distance real estate investing
- Real estate professional status: a tax shelter for your day job?
- Returning 17-50% via the BRRRR method for Duplex #2 and #4
- How rental cash flow cut 5 years off our plan to moFIRE
- Buying a 10 unit apartment building | Anno Darwinii 1.5
- Indy Duplex #3 – from run down to rent ready
- The BRRRR method: how we got a 62% return on our first duplex
- Leaks, fires, and pit bulls (oh my!): Anno Darwinii 1.25
- The real estate empire has grown! Anno Darwinii 1.0
- How to get your spouse to support real estate investing
- Review of the Semi-Retired MD’s Zero to Freedom Course
- Rental empire under siege: Anno Darwinii 0.75
- Why you must stretch for your SMART goals
- My Why: family, friends, and freedom
- Update on the Rental Empire: Anno Darwinii 0.5
- Rental property #1: My Real Return after 6 months
- 5 simple steps to calculate your Real Return on rental property
- Update on the rental empire: Anno Darwinii 0.25
- Curb appeal matters, even for rental properties
- Rental houses vs. stocks: a 25 year portfolio projection
- Rental house #1: Purchased!
- Leverage | Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 3
- Tax benefits | Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 2
- Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 1
- Increase your credit score by 25 points in 4 weeks
- The fastest way to improve your credit score
- The great blessing of inflation
Recommendations
- A Few of My Favorite Things | Technology
- The Simple Path to Wealth: a TDD Book Review
- Retire on Real Estate by K. Kai Anderson: a TDD book review
- Book recommendations page
Side Gigs
- How much money do you get paid to donate sperm? | Side Gig Series
- How much do you get paid to donate a testicle? | Side Gig Series
Taxes
- 3 Lessons I Learned from a Huge Tax Book
- 3 Ways to Avoid Depreciation Recapture Tax on Rental Property
- Are My Meals Tax Deductible in 2022?
- What Does FUTA Stand for in Payroll? [Federal Unemployment Tax Act]
- Marginal Tax Rate vs Average Tax Rate: What’s the Difference?
Tesla
- How TeslaCam saved me from a hit-and-run
- The heartache and joy of owning Tesla stock
- How my Tesla Model 3 saves me $200 a month in fuel costs
- Why I bought a Tesla Model 3
The PPhREI Network: The Physician and Professional Real Estate Investor Network
- Introducing the PPhREI Network
- How to Invest in Real Estate with High Interest Rates | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-12-2023
- How to Jumpstart your FIRE Journey | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-5-2023
- The Valley of Disappointment | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-21-23
- 7 Financial Plan Changes | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-7-2023
- The Perfect International Stock Allocation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-30-2023
- Is Geographic Arbitrage Worth It? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-23-2023
- The Power of 1% Gains | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-16-2023
- Funny Financial Myths | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-9-2023
- Individual Stocks vs. Index Funds | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-26-2023
- Real Estate Investing for the Tax Benefits | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-19-2023
- Net Worth vs. Wealth | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-12-2023
- The Value of Passive Income in Retirement | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-5-2023
- Investment Waterfalls | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-27-2023
- How Many Rentals to Retire? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-21-23
- How to Beat Inflation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-14-2023
- Crash Proof Retirement | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-7-2023
- The Luck Factor | PPhREI Network Update | 3-30-2023
- 1 Year Returns from a Triplex | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-24-23
- Bank Failures? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-17-23
- Investing in Land Conservation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-9-2023
- Physician Finances | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-3-2023
- Alternative Businesses | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-23-23
- A Real Estate Journey Begins | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-17-2023
- Equity Recycling via a 1031 Exchange | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-10-2023
- The Bonus Depreciation Bust | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-3-2023
- Your Investing Margin for Error | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-27-2023
- Turn Your Home into an Asset | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-13-2023
- The Best Time to Buy Real Estate | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-6-2023
- Buying a Duplex in Buffalo | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-30-2022
- The $100k Tax Refund | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-23-2022
- Passive Income Report from the PPS | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-16-22
- Starting Your Real Estate Journey | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-9-22
- Investing in a High Interest World | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-2-22
- Physician Financial Well-Being | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-18-22
- Bad Real Estate Deal Analysis | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-12-2022
- The 3 Best Smart TVs for your STR | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-4-2022
- Are There Poor Physicians? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-28-2022
- Duplex Deal Analysis | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-21-2022
- How to Furnish Your Short Term Rental | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-14-2022
- Who Should be an Active Real Estate Investor? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-3-2022
- Should You Use a 15 Year Mortgage? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 9-23-2022
- Make Memories in Your Short Term Rentals | PPhREI Network Roundup | 9-10-22
- Passive Real Estate Investing | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-27-2022
- A Real Estate Deal Gone Wrong | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-14-2022
- Seize the Day | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-6-2022
- Buy or Rent Your First Home? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-30-2022
- Hero Origin Stories | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-16-2022
- Turn Your Home into a Rental? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-2-2022
- How to Get an Investment Loan | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-18-22
- Geographic Arbitrage and Burnout | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-11-22
- Financial Mistakes | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-4-2022
- How to Get Through a Market Downturn | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-21-2022
- Is Self Management Worth It? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-7-2022
- How to Beat Inflation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-30-22
- PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-22-2022 | The Reverse 1031 Exchange
All Posts in Order (newest to oldest)
- No Work, No Pay: The Harmful Myth Holding You Back
- How to Invest in Real Estate with High Interest Rates | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-12-2023
- How to Jumpstart your FIRE Journey | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-5-2023
- Bulletproof Vests, Doctors, and Angry Patients: the Problem of Violence in Healthcare
- The Valley of Disappointment | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-21-23
- How Moving to Memphis Cost Us $500k
- 7 Financial Plan Changes | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-7-2023
- The Perfect International Stock Allocation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-30-2023
- Earnings Evolution | Anno Darwinii 4.0
- Is Geographic Arbitrage Worth It? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-23-2023
- The Power of 1% Gains | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-16-2023
- 5 Reasons Why I’m Finally Investing in a Real Estate Syndication
- Funny Financial Myths | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-9-2023
- When Does This Game Get Good? (Arrival Fallacy and my Yale Reunion)
- Individual Stocks vs. Index Funds | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-26-2023
- Doc2Doc Lending: A Solution for Physicians and Dentists
- Real Estate Investing for the Tax Benefits | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-19-2023
- Palm Springs Short Term Rental Regulations: An Insider’s Guide
- Net Worth vs. Wealth | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-12-2023
- How to Create the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Team
- The Value of Passive Income in Retirement | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-5-2023
- 3 Downsides of Locum Tenens Medicine You Should Know
- Investment Waterfalls | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-27-2023
- The ChatGPT AI Roadmap to Short Term Rental Success
- How Many Rentals to Retire? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-21-23
- A FIRE Icon Goes Back to Work
- How to Beat Inflation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-14-2023
- My Hiatus from Medicine: 3 Eye-Opening Revelations
- Crash Proof Retirement | PPhREI Network Roundup | 4-7-2023
- A Few of My Favorite Things | Technology
- The Luck Factor | PPhREI Network Update | 3-30-2023
- The Stealth Wealth Strategy of Principal Paydown
- 1 Year Returns from a Triplex | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-24-23
- 95% Occupancy and $600k Revenue | Anno Darwinii 3.75
- Bank Failures? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-17-23
- Buyer Agent vs. Seller Agent: What’s the Difference?
- Investing in Land Conservation | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-9-2023
- The 401k vs Real Estate | What’s the Better Investment?
- Physician Finances | PPhREI Network Roundup | 3-3-2023
- 9 Creative Financing Strategies for Real Estate Investment
- Alternative Businesses | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-23-23
- Your Health is Your Wealth | Letters to My Sons
- A Real Estate Journey Begins | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-17-2023
- Millionaires Aren’t What They Used to Be
- Equity Recycling via a 1031 Exchange | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-10-2023
- 2022 Rental Income Report from our Indianapolis Portfolio
- The Bonus Depreciation Bust | PPhREI Network Roundup | 2-3-2023
- 5 Discoveries from Our Memphis Geoarbitrage Experiment
- Your Investing Margin for Error | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-27-2023
- 9 Best Ways that Doctors can Give Back
- Investing with a HELOC: A Physician’s Analysis of the Risks and Benefits
- Turn Your Home into an Asset | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-13-2023
- 7 Ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) will Revolutionize Healthcare
- The Best Time to Buy Real Estate | PPhREI Network Roundup | 1-6-2023
- Is it the Right Time to Buy Real Estate?
- Buying a Duplex in Buffalo | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-30-2022
- Our Short Term Rental Gamble Pays Off | Anno Darwinii 3.5
- The $100k Tax Refund | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-23-2022
- The Physician Shortage: A Threat to the American Healthcare System
- Passive Income Report from the PPS | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-16-22
- 15 Things to do When Your House Doesn’t Sell
- Starting Your Real Estate Journey | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-9-22
- The Mexican Fisherman is in Trouble
- Investing in a High Interest World | PPhREI Network Roundup | 12-2-22
- 3 Reasons Why I’m Grateful To Be a Physician
- Physician Financial Well-Being | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-18-22
- How a Cost Segregation with Engineered Tax Services got me a $105k Tax Refund
- Bad Real Estate Deal Analysis | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-12-2022
- Don’t Be a Prisoner of Your Former Self
- The 3 Best Smart TVs for your STR | PPhREI Network Roundup | 11-4-2022
- Doctors are More Burnt Out. Is it Being Employed or Just Covid?
- Are There Poor Physicians? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-28-2022
- $325k Annual Gross Income | Anno Darwinii 3.25
- Duplex Deal Analysis | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-21-2022
- 4 Reasons Why Apartment Buildings are the Best Real Estate Investment in a Recession
- How to Furnish Your Short Term Rental | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-14-2022
- Partial Financial Freedom is Awesome Too!
- Who Should be an Active Real Estate Investor? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 10-3-2022
- The $18k Roof Repair | The Importance of Financial Reserves
- Should You Use a 15 Year Mortgage? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 9-23-2022
- Four Physicians Walk into a Bar…
- Make Memories in Your Short Term Rentals | PPhREI Network Roundup | 9-10-22
- Resident Physicians Win! | The Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Plan
- Passive Real Estate Investing | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-27-2022
- Wealth Is Not a Zero Sum Game
- A Real Estate Deal Gone Wrong | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-14-2022
- The Amazing Power of Geoarbitrage
- Seize the Day | PPhREI Network Roundup | 8-6-2022
- Buy or Rent Your First Home? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-30-2022
- Your Mom Is a Badass | Letters to My Sons
- Hero Origin Stories | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-16-2022
- $50,000 Monthly Gross Rental Income | Anno Darwinii 3.0
- 5 Month Income Report from Our Luxury Cabin Rental
- Turn Your Home into a Rental? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 7-2-2022
- The Comedy of “Home Call”
- How to Get an Investment Loan | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-18-22
- How the Federal Reserve Might Crash the Real Estate Market
- Geographic Arbitrage and Burnout | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-11-22
- Why You Need to Invest When the Market Is Down
- Financial Mistakes | PPhREI Network Roundup | 6-4-2022
- Why Doctors Shouldn’t Paint Their Own House
- How to Get Through a Market Downturn | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-21-2022
- Why is the Federal Reserve Raising Interest Rates?
- Is Self Management Worth It? | PPhREI Network Roundup | 5-7-2022
- How to Transform Your Home From a Liability into an Asset
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- How to Control Your Financial Destiny [My First eBook]
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- Why It Seems Like All Doctors Are Quitting Medicine
- Water is a Real Estate Investor’s Worst Enemy | Building the Empire
- How much money do you get paid to donate sperm? | Side Gig Series
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- The 2 Ways to Reach Financial Independence [Finance 101]
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- How to Calculate Asset Allocation as a Real Estate Investor
- From Desert Heat to Snow via the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway!
- The Darwinian Doctor’s Net Worth and Asset Allocation | Early 2022
- How much do you get paid to donate a testicle? | Side Gig Series
- 3 Things I Learned from Hosting a Real Estate Conference
- 3 Lessons I Learned from a Huge Tax Book
- 3 Ways to Avoid Depreciation Recapture Tax on Rental Property
- Selling My First Rental Property for a Loss | Building the Empire
- Are My Meals Tax Deductible in 2022?
- How Physician Coaching Changed My Life [Review of the Alpha Coaching Experience]
- What Does FUTA Stand for in Payroll? [Federal Unemployment Tax Act]
- Cash flow for the holidays | Building the Empire
- Marginal Tax Rate vs Average Tax Rate: What’s the Difference?
- A Pool in Palm Springs | Building the Empire
- Compound Interest: the Key to Building Wealth
- Permits and Pivots | Building the Darwinian Empire
- $127,000 of Gross Revenue | Anno Darwinii 2.5
- 9 Best Steps to do When Your House Gets Robbed
- Will Healthcare Survive The Great Resignation?
- Delaware Statutory Trust: Asset Protection for California Real Estate Investors
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- A New Resource for Residents who are Thinking of Quitting
- 3+ Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy Property in a Bad Neighborhood
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- A New Mission and New Look for The Darwinian Doctor
- Patience is a Virtue in Real Estate Investing [Anno Darwinii 2.25]
- How to Save, Invest, and Become Rich
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- Amazing Tax Deductions from Your Short Term Rental
- The Carpe Diem MD Short Term Rental Course: My Review
- 17 Best Cities for Doctors to Live in the US
- 5 simple steps to contest a low home appraisal [my success story]
- 5 types of doctors that hate call the most
- First fig of the summer | 2021
- Active under contract (Contingent) vs Pending: can you still make an offer?
- Why I’m buying experiences, not things
- Comparison is the death of joy
- Is this the secret of life coaching?
- Are we headed for another housing crash?
- Do you have to invest in real estate as a doctor?
- Getting a mortgage is painful. Why this is a good thing.
- The real estate empire hits $3 million | Anno Darwinii 2.0
- How to enjoy your journey to financial independence
- How much cash flow do you need to change your life?
- Your mindset makes your success
- The sushi wealth test
- How our jobs are killing us
- The best time to buy a short term rental property
- My individual stock portfolio revealed
- The 5 ways rental real estate makes you money
- The benefits of hustle and self-management
- 3 ways to tell good debt from bad debt
- Love your job? Why you should plan for FIRE anyway
- The 5 types of real estate investors
- $29,000 of Cash flow | Anno Darwinii 1.75
- The 3 simple steps to achieve FIRE
- 3 months post identity reveal | Blog + life update
- The battle between YOLO and FIRE
- How to pick a real estate investment market
- The world isn’t all sunshine and palm trees | Letters to my sons
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- How to decide between local or long distance real estate investing
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- Revealing My Secret Strategy to Pay My Huge Student Debt
- Returning 17-50% via the BRRRR method for Duplex #2 and #4
- SEPP plans: How to access your retirement accounts before age 59 ½
- A devastating fall changes this doc’s life forever
- Rich people live longer with better health
- 7 Financial Habits of Highly Successful Physicians
- Introducing the Physician Real Estate Investor Network: PhREI
- How TeslaCam saved me from a hit-and-run
- How rental cash flow cut 5 years off our plan to moFIRE
- Buying a 10 unit apartment building | Anno Darwinii 1.5
- Why doctors are such bad investors
- The Covid-19 Vaccine: my experience with the side effects
- 100th blog post: secret identity revealed!
- The 3 best ways to estimate your home value (aka: How I “lost” $1 million overnight)
- Indy Duplex #3 – from run down to rent ready
- Winter blog update 2020: 151k pageviews!
- Autumn garden update 2020: Potatoes, peppers and tree pruning
- The Darwinian Doctor’s most important investment of 2020
- Time: your most valuable asset
- The BRRRR method: how we got a 62% return on our first duplex
- FIRE: my mid-life crisis
- How to have gratitude for your present while dreaming of the future
- Leaks, fires, and pit bulls (oh my!): Anno Darwinii 1.25
- Why your net worth isn’t as useful as you think
- The Darwinian Doctor’s net worth
- A Darwinian summer of cake and salad
- Health savings accounts (HSAs): the holy grail of personal finance
- Why I’m home for breakfast these days | Letters to my sons
- What it’s like flying during the Covid-19 pandemic
- The heartache and joy of owning Tesla stock
- Physicians are trapped by golden handcuffs
- First figs of the pandemic
- The real estate empire has grown! Anno Darwinii 1.0
- Is owning a home a good investment? 10 years of home ownership in LA, analyzed
- How the pandemic changed our spending
- How to get your spouse to support real estate investing
- Childcare in the age of COVID-19
- Review of the Semi-Retired MD’s Real Estate Investing Course
- Figs and finances
- It’s working! How social isolation is flattening the COVID-19 curve
- Rental empire under siege: Anno Darwinii 0.75
- What to expect from COVID-19: Are the symptoms deadly?
- COVID-19 basics: Why it’s so much worse than the flu
- The Darwinian Doctor hacks date night
- Blog Update: Spring 2020
- How a mortgage refinance dropped my credit score 35 points
- Switching residency programs from surgery to psychiatry
- My Why: family, friends, and freedom
- Update on the Rental Empire: Anno Darwinii 0.5
- End of year investments update | 2019
- You have amazing potential
- My son got a reading award! (But I couldn’t be there)
- Rental property #1: My Real Return after 6 months
- Gratitude and Thanksgiving in 2019
- Autumn Garden Update 2019: Tuscan melons!
- 5 simple steps to calculate your Real Return on rental property
- 10,000 Pageviews! Blog update – Autumn 2019
- What’s a hedge fund? I interview a hedge fund manager to find out
- How my Tesla Model 3 saves me $200 a month in fuel costs
- Update on the rental empire: Anno Darwinii 0.25
- Picking chestnuts in Seattle (a horse chestnut warning)
- How to survive intern year of residency: the basics
- Curb appeal matters, even for rental properties
- The Simple Path to Wealth: a TDD Book Review
- First figs of the summer | 2019
- Why I bought a Tesla Model 3
- How accurate are credit score simulators?
- Kids play structure complete!
- Retire on Real Estate by K. Kai Anderson: a TDD book review
- Mid year investments and goals update | 2019
- Why the rich don’t feel rich
- Rental houses vs. stocks: a 25 year portfolio projection
- You can’t buy avocado toast with VTSAX (Why cash flow is king)
- Rental house #1: Purchased!
- The Darwinian Doctor Blog update | June 2019
- 4 simple steps to massive success with symbiotic goals
- Fig tree and garden update | Spring
- Leverage | Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 3
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- Why I’m investing in real estate over stocks – Part 1
- Inheritance and intergenerational wealth transfer
- Quitting residency after intern year (Life after residency series)
- Retirement via an accessory dwelling unit (my parental support solution)
- Organic food and cancer risk
- Increase your credit score by 25 points in 4 weeks
- Detours on the road to financial independence
- How we amassed an investment portfolio of over $1 million
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- My 15 year plan to financial independence, moFIRE style
- Children’s book recommendations for the young scientist
- How to calculate your net worth and savings rate
- 5 great reasons to drink coffee every day!
- How to prevent keyboard marks on your laptop screen
- The Darwinian Doctor Affiliate Policy
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- Update on the Jelly Fig cuttings: They’re alive!
- How to grow a cutting from a fig tree
- The great blessing of inflation
- Why I chose medicine, and why this is still a good choice for your career
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