I've played with stocks and crypto and still hold both, I also love physical Gold and Silver Bullion (not really an 'investment' in the regular use of the word)Real estate gets me pretty excited and I've been learning about it loosely for the last few months.

I am analyzing this SFH in Silver Spring, MD and i notice that on the MD county property tax  data base the amount estimated for 2021(annual) is $482 which is extremely low for a $425k house(realtor.com).

I used Private Money Utah on a house I flipped in Eagle Mountain.  

Remember gas was $4 per gallon, so rural areas like Eagle Mountain were a hopeless mess.  

He's more for theRockville, Silver Spring, DC market.

I would also personally manage.I could scrape together around 5k by liquidating some gold/silver, but wondering how I might make up the rest?  

I would also highly recommend Ron at Eagle Home Inspections...incredibly thorough, reasonably priced and great at explaining what (if anything) needs to be done to the propertyhttp://eagle-inspections.com/index.html

In this highly competitive market, there is no single silver bullet.

I am about to complete the rehab of a place in Eagle Mountain, Ut.

Is that the real estate downturn, or the oil downturn, gold downturn, silver, hog bellies or whatever they're trading an hour or so south of me in Chicago  . . . and of course for all of those downturns, you can find the exact opposite predictions from SOMEONE for anything and literally you could spend all of 2017 watching non stop youtube videos, listening to "financial whiz" podcasts and interviews, there's the screaming "I'm bald but refuse to do the shave your whole head trend since I'm too busy screaming about stocks all of the time" stock dork on CNBC or wherever he is (maybe MSNBC-oh wait, they've got the entire on air staff on 24/7 suicide watch since the election results came in at MSNBC) Anyway, point is that you can literally find someone pushing ANY prediction and what is also very troubling is that MANY who push the "downturn" scenarios and ESPECIALLY the "major downturn" or even the incredible # of "global economic collapse is any day now, might even be tomorrow!!"