He tells me you have to think of gold and silver as just any other commodity now based on how they're behaving in the market currently.Silver is at 16 an ounce.

Notice, the stark white draws your eye, and that's not what you want the most noticed feature of the house to be. Have

It is not that one is more credible than the other, it is just that they are different products geared towards a different type on investor ... the powers that be have determined that by the time you reach the financial level of "accredited investor" that you should be able to know the difference, or at the very least be able to lose the money that you invest in private placements without going BK.

Often just the threat of terminating the lease will get a tenant to start behaving like a responsible adult.

In summary, if markets remain investor driven then they can behave like commercial/apt pricing where it's based on cash flow.

No way would I evict these people, but this is a situation where you set a precedent on how you expect the tenant to behave in your property.

And of course, there is no guarantee that the market will behave the way I want to

You see, when they are well behaved they might be no problem, but when they misbehave they are so strong as to be overpowering. 

It looks like we will be having a meetup in Lisbon soon ...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/76/topics/658137-property-investment-in-portugal?

If students don't behave they answer to the Dean and can eventually be expelled - school is very SERIOUS!