Have you heard of a self-directed IRA (or Roth IRA) these accounts follow all the rules of normal IRA's and Roth IRA's, but they allow you to invest in alternative assets such as real estate, notes, mortgages, private placements and even precious metals. 

A home is a stack of wood, metal, and other synthetic and raw materials...

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The single mom demands to know why she was rejected when she met all your criteria.

On the survey the surveyer point out small metal rods to establish property lines but after spending sometime looking they are nowhere to be found.

Usually those have metal between the tiles.

I would stick with a metal roof.

Carport, fully enclosed, metal building?   

As he's gotten older, the portion destined for Save and Spend have increased - though Spend is still the skinniest part of the cow.When we retrofit a building, he receives all the scrape metal (wiring, plumbing, doors/windows/siding), and in the past five years has done surprisingly well (the Cow has had to make a few trips to the bank to "poop" {as the boy likes to say}).