Mad Hatter Investments

09/10/2022

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
On our way to La Paz, Mexico. They tell you to arrive at the airport 3 hours before international flights so we had to arrive at LAX at 7:30 for a 10:30 flight. That means leaving Bakersfield at 5:30 AM. Then, on the way, I got a notification that our flight was delayed for an hour. We get to LAX at 7:30. By the time we check our bags, get boarding passes, and get through TSA it’s 8:30, so we have 2-1/2 hours to kill before we board. Time for a tequila sunrise. It’s happy hour somewhere.

09/06/2022

Hey Facebook friends, I just dropped my latest blog. It’s a little history of the doubleheader in Major League Baseball and my recent trip to Coors Field to see the Rockies play the Dodgers. It’s my 59th blog and the last one for awhile. I’ll still be posting occasionally as I have truly enjoyed this but putting in 60-65 hours a week at work AND trying to find the time to write 2-4,000 words each week is exhausting. So I’m going to step away and use the time to update my website and work on some other projects. But I should be back at it in 2023. Until then remember to always swing for the fences. You can read the blog at

LET’S PLAY TWO (part 2) Leave a Comment / Baseball / By konrad It was the great Ernie Banks, aka Mr. Cub, who famously said “Let’s play two”. Of course, he was talking about double headers, a feature of Major League Baseball that, at least until this year, has mostly disappeared. That is ...

09/14/2020

This was our recent flip. Closed escrow on July 2.
Purchase price $224,740.06
Rehab cost $47,235.87
Total cost $271,975.93

We closed escrow on the sale on September 10.
Sold price $340,000.00
Closing cost $21,500.48
Check at closing $318,499.52

Profit $46,523.59

Total days 69
ROI 17.1%
Annualized ROI 90.5%

02/15/2020

We put in all of the new windows at Truxtun. Also took off all the old wood siding preparatory to putting on the new stucco this next week.