Ashley Sommer In my experience, the lender places more weight on your total household income as well as your longevity with your employer.

I'm pretty sure my argument makes as much logical sense as yours...between our combined ideas of cutting back on food stamps and encouraging abortion, we should really be able to help the poor (and over-weight) in this country...

But when you weight the cost of your time into the equation, they are amazing deals.

10.will the weight of new giveaways be the last straw that crushes our economy and status in the world and start the dominos falling?

matty,not sure where you heard the info about not being able to deliver. i'd be interested in seeing that. all analyst reports that i've read including the fund reports state that the physical bullion is held directly in the vault. with that being said, delivery 'shouldn't' be an issue, though, again, its etf investing against a physical security and not investing in a physical security.commodity and currency investing is not for the faint of heart. i certainly wouldn't advise anyone in investing the farm in it though, it may hold a place in a properly diversified portfolio.also, the only clients that i have that hold it physically are a few coin dealer clients. shipping, storage, security, etc can def eat up a lot of costs and i am not an advocate of holding large amounts in hand. i had 1 client who wanted to invest a 'sizeable amount' of money into gold and wanted physical bullion. i asked him what a 'sizeable amount' was and he said 5-10k lol. i told him that at $1500 an ounce, he wouldn't get much. infact, i compared it to the 16oz steak that he orders. he woudn't even own half the weight in gold. it was pretty eye opening for him.

I expect there to be a lot of white collar dead weight in the future.If real estate investing is what you want to do, then jump right in and get started.

Rick H.Frank Columbo in the episode "Dead Weight". 10/27/71

For starts, I will run the financials for any property to ensure that it can carry its own weight, i.e. pay for itself.  

$20k in the whole probably feels like a huge weight, but honestly its not that bad.  

An investor savvy real estate agent is worth their weight (and commission) in gold.