Investments

Racha is a highland area in western Georgia, located in the upper Rioni river valley and hemmed in by the Greater Caucasus mountains.  Ambrolauri serves as the seat of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti regional administration and of the Ambrolauri Municipality and had a population of 2,015 in 2021. The city is served by a small, but very convenient Ambrolauri airport, with a few weekly flights to Natakhtari (Tbilisi), thus making the city and the whole region of Racha - attractive for real…

For the past couple of weeks and months, I have been working toward my Tbilisi real estate investment idea. Now I have a potential co-investor and we are looking to buy one apartment in Tbilisi (or Batumi) under construction, wait until it is completed, and sell it for a profit (hopefully). As I had done initial market research for some potential value deals in Tbilisi, I found this quite an interesting offer located in the city outskirts but meantime well connected to the rest of the city -…

A few months ago, I came up with an idea to crowdfund a real estate under construction in Batumi and sell it for profit once completed. I was contacted by a potential investor from Canada, and we kept shaping this idea more and more until we are already ready to make our first co-investment. High Risk / High Return Investment Opportunity in Batumi Real Estate A few weeks ago I went again to Batumi, to re-check the situation with Batumi real estate, and did some findings, some were good and…

In 2023 minimum wage is set to increase in all Baltic states. Estonia will have a minimum wage of EUR 725; Latvia - EUR 620 and Lithuania - EUR 800. During the past 5 years minimum wages across the Baltics have experienced a steep increase, and in some cases even doubled. When compared to 2018, Estonia's minimum wage has increased by EUR 225, Latvia's by EUR 220, and Lithuania's by a whooping EUR 400. Despite pretty decent increases in the Baltic States, minimum wages here are still among the…

I have a plan to invest slowly and gradually into Ethereum coin, my goal is to own 1 Ethereum and sell call options on it using the Deribit crypto trading platform. I have been familiar with the Ethereum coin since mid-2017, at its highest I held some 12 ETH coins, which I sold back when it was trading at around $200. Huge was my regret seeing ETH trading around $4,000 per coin a few years later. Well, what to do? Disclosure:  This article contains affiliate links to deribit.com bitcoin…

Back in Spring 2022, I come up with an idea - launching a crypto token for investing in Batumi real estate. The original idea was to issue about 100 tokens over Ethereum smart chain, collect the funds, buy the property, sell it for a profit, and buy back tokens at an increased price.  I still like this idea, and I'm still looking to go forward with it. During the past 6 months my idea didn't raise much interest, yes I had a talk with a few investors, but most were not aware of what a smart…

I have a plan to invest slowly and gradually into Solana coins, my goal is to own 100 coins and sell call options with them on the Deribit crypto trading platform. In fact, unlike the stock market, on the deribit platform, we don't need even 100 coins for selling covered calls, just one is enough to dip your toes in the water Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar (yet) with the Solana coin nor the idea behind this coin, I just noticed this coin for trading on the Deribit platform, and as it…

On September 20, 2022, we bought additional 2 shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) paying $123.83 per share for our Partnership Fund. We are now holding 4 shares of AMZN in our Partnership Fund portfolio Using dollar-cost averaging our average cost per one AMZN share is $120.31 96 shares to go once we will be able to start selling covered calls and generate extra income from AMZN. We are looking to get there by April 2023 If we had 100 shares of AMZN today, we could sell October 21, 2022,…

Yesterday we traveled to Ječi to move the lawn, grill a fish and use it as a camp base before visiting a pebbled beach near Nida close to the Latvian/Lithuanian. Our new favorite shop - LIDL, fish is awesome and the rest is good too. We are lucky to have one LIDL store in Liepaja, about 25 km from our Ječi house.  I love both Nida and Pape, really awesome beaches. Pāvilosta is good, Jūrkalne too.  After returning to Ječi and making our campfire it was already dark and I guess I was able to…

This article has been sitting in the blog's draft section since May 2018, I decided I just have to write an answer to this question - would I invest $2,000 in US stocks?  Why $2,000? Apparently, that seemed quite a sum to lose back in 2018. I was just starting out my stocks portfolio and hadn't any idea about stock options. Here are my thoughts about investing $2,000 back on May 17, 2018. Hell, yes! That's what I'm actually trying to do right now - quickly gather $2,000 and start acquiring…