New purchase : National Health Investors

New position in portfolio started. I purchased 6 shares of National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) at $79.69 per share.

National Health Investors, Inc., incorporated on July 24, 1991, is a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in sale-leaseback, joint-venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of need-driven and discretionary senior housing and medical investments.

NHI is a dividend contender with 17 years of dividend growth. NHI pays dividend with 1-5-8-11 schedule and my starting yield of cost is at 5.24% 

W.P. Carey increases dividend

NEW YORK, March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC) reported today that its Board of Directors increased its quarterly cash dividend to $1.032 per share, equivalent to an annualized dividend rate of $4.13 per share. The dividend is payable on April 15, 2019 to stockholders of record as of March 29, 2019.

New purchase : Stora Enso

Re-invested Stora Enso dividends back into Stora Enso in advance :) Added 10 shares of Stora Enso (STERV) at 11.725€ per share. I now hold 185 shares of Stora Enso

101st Common Stock Monthly Dividend Increase Declared By Realty Income

SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the company's common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.226 per share from $0.2255 per share. The dividend is payable on April 15, 2019 to shareholders of record as of April 1, 2019. 

This is the 101^st dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for April's dividend is March 29, 2019. The new monthly dividend represents an annualized dividend amount of $2.712 per share as compared to the current annualized dividend amount of $2.706 per share.

New purchase : Fortum

Re-investing Fortum dividends back into Fortum in advance :)  Added 6 shares of Fortum (FORTUM) at 19.93€ per share. I now hold 112 shares of Fortum.

New purchase : Ship Finance Limited

Added 28 shares of Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE:SFL) at $12.14 per share. I now hold 203 shares of SFL.

This purchase increases my 12 month forward dividends by $39.2

New purchase : W.P.Carey

Added 5 shares of W.P.Carey (WPC) at $72.96 per share. I now hold 40 shares of WPC

New purchase : Altria Group

Added 11 shares of Altria Group (MO)  at $53.00 per share. I now hold 41 shares of MO.

Progress update : February 2019

Progress update for February

Quote	2018	2019	Change %
Realty Income Corp	4.89	7.58	+55.01%
AT&T	22.78	25.39	+11.46%
Orchid Island	8.79	-	-100%
Alliance Resource Partners	19.59	22.57	+15.21%
Golar LNG Partners	21.88	16.85	-22.99%
Main Street Capital	13.04	14.84	+13.80%
Prospect Capital Corporation	10.53	11.63	+10.45%
Royal Bank of Canada	9.36	10.45	+11.65%
Omega Healthcare Investors	43.92	52.93	+20.15%
Verizon Communications	10.79	15.02	+39.02%
Chatham Lodging Trust	11.03	13.36	+21.12%
LTC Properties	11.68	12.55	+7.45%
Enterprise Products Partners	20.13	22.30	+10.78%
AGNC Investment Corp		14.23
EPR Properties		8.17
Oasis Midstream Partners		27.74
Total	208.41	275.61	+32.24%

Status update : February 2019

Dividends received in February :

Quarterly:

•  25.39€ from AT&T (T)
•  15.02€ from Verizon (VZ)
•  22.57€ from Alliance Resource Partners (ALRP) 
•  16.85€ from Golar LNG Partners (GMLP)
•  52.93€ from Omega Healthcare (OHI)
•  10.45€ from Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
•  22.30€ from Enterprise Products Partners (EPD)
•  27.74€ from Oasis Midstream Partners (OMP)

Monthly:

•     7.58€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
•   14.84€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
•   11.63€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)
•   13.36€ from Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT)
•   12.55€ from LTC Properties (LTC)
•   14.23€ from AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC)
•     8.17€ from EPR Properties (EPR)

This makes it a total of 275.61€ in dividends in February. Last year I received 208.41€ dividends in February. This is a 32.24% increase in dividends. Nice improvement