He listed is 5 asset classes that he is currently involved in for this preparation: - Multi-family housing (apartments)- storage units- oil & gas- short terms loans/under a Year- gold & silverNow my question is, When EXACTLY is the right time to begin this preparation, when your finally pretty much done with investing?

Right now If I was to buy anything publically traded it might be energy, Specifically oil and natural gas for the long haul.

An analogy would be, you can learn to change your own oil, but why do most people take it to a shop?

My wife and I do not have children and she works in O&G upstream for an oil major, so most of our earnings go to purchasing houses.

That's no different than investing in stocks, bonds, bank CD's or oil wells.

The $$$$$ OOZES from everywhere since they discovered Oil and actually drilled for it.

One problem is that this property has oil heating which I have read is like a 3-5k conversion to gas.

Real Estate is only a portion of our portfolio we have oil I have invested into as well that has done well over the years.

BOA makes Congress seem like a well oiled machine.I have sold (as a listing agent) the same short sale 3 times and BOA has dragged their feet each time.

2-The property has no mortgage, but has three tax liens bought by BNY Mellon totalling $60,000 + a mechanic lien from an oil company.