With most of my companies already reporting earnings for this round of quarterly earnings, it is once again time to update my favorite part of the dividend income. If you recall in the past two quarterly updates (here and here), I am on a good decent track to hit a record high dividend received for the year, so it'll remain to be seen with one more quarter how things can go from here. These days, with market doing rather well this year, it becomes a lot harder to stay invested in dividend companies when valuation gets higher and it becomes a question on whether you should sell off the golden goose for the meat. I think there should be a good strategy allocation down there. With that a due, here is the dividend income received in the 3rd quarter of 2017......