I am interested in precious metals.

I have a feeling it has the old metal exterior...That park even looks nice and clean, is it?

I financed a steel fabrication business where we produced metal enclosures for the telecommunications industry, thos small metalboxes you see on telephone lines, terminal boxes you might have noticed in neighborhoods that the phone company uses.

I will probably re-side it for aesthetic reasons, as the old metal siding is pretty dingy, but maybe I can get it to clean up.

I've been told there's no universal type of springs and that there's no way to get replacement Mayfair springs anymore for the metal windows, and that I'll have to have all of these perfectly good windows replaced.

Www.wambamfence.com Can be installed with a minimum of knowledge using metal anchor poles.

I was also in a garage band in the early sixties and had a ball playimg guitar, my old metal flake blue strat!

Having started out in stocks (namely, my 401k and IRA) and real estate (including notes secured by real estate), my thought is this:The analysis by which the individual investor has to perform is much easier to do and understand when it comes to real estate.I remember reading about asset allocation (US vs. foreign stocks, small vs. mid- vs. large caps companies, value vs. growth, % dedicated to REITs, precious metals/commodities, TIPS, bonds (short, mid- and long term, high quality vs. junk) and thinking "where do I start?"

Here's a real bugger on this.For half as much money we could build a rare earth metal processing plant to process the rare earth lodes in Idaho and Montana.

Add otther stuff like metals, food, water etc. as you feel the need.