Monthly Financial Update - December 1, 2019

This month we capped off the amount we plan to use as a downpayment on our future rental property (you may have noticed our high-yield savings steadily increasing this year, now you know why!). We've been searching for the perfect deal for several months but, so far, we haven't found exactly what we're looking for. However, now that the downpayment savings fund is complete, we have re-doubled our investing efforts! The large gains we made this month show that those efforts are already paying off.

Results:
4.51% month-over-month growth
66.5% of retirement number saved

Check out our performance in the table below.

Accounts	Portfolio Allocation	Change In Value (November-December)
Liquid Funds	1.14%	-1.26%
High-Yield Savings	11.87%	6.75%
REITs	0.66%	0.23%
401(k)s	47.22%	4.04%
IRAs	4.09%	3.66%
HSA	1.13%	9.67%
Cryptocurrencies	0.02%	-18.99%
P2P Lending	0.02%	-16.08%
Taxable Stock Investments	33.72%	4.58%
Debt	0.13%	-13.40%
Total =	100%

Portfolio Allocation = Current asset distribution of our portfolio
Change In Value = Change in account value due to asset appreciation/depreciation, deposits, and withdrawals

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