So we know that putting money in the bank or in a safe will end up costing us money, in the end, as inflation is real, and savings accounts and mattress stashes will lag inflation.

For my personal taste I do not mind.Software:Personal Capital: to track all my financial accounts (credit, bank, investment, I also use their manual account option to track personal lending and cash I have stashed)Google sheets: I log every transaction I make on a daily basis and categorize them then I can look back at a pivot by different details such as month and category.

As for me, I'm stashing cash and waiting for the next market correction where the opportunities will abound.

Sometimes you need to pause for a bit and build cash toward your next deal and that is ok - make a game out of it by seeing just how tight you can make things to stash cash up to the next one.

We also provide a stash of furnace filters and send a mass text message to remind people to change the filter.

You don't have it, if they go bust.If you buy gold coins, keep em in your personal safeKeep em in a banks' safe deposit box (fails if there's a banking collapse)If you're worried thieves are coming looking for your safe, there were elaborate schemes to hide your stash behind the drywall inside walls, that won't be easy targets.If you're worried thieves are coming with a metal detector looking for your gold, you bury it in the back yard (or it might be a compound in the woods, because you need food, guns and ammo for the apocalypse); bury 50 pieces of junk metal car parts 2' deep in 50 locations.

Stash $ in the retirement funds, upgrade the vehicles from Saturns to Toyotas, buy a bunch of gear.

The exact opposite of what we need to do.You need to stash money in a rainy day fund when times are good and draw on the fund when times are bad.

A summary of the article is in Yahoo Finance: Rich Stash CashIt looks like the high-end condo is the new Swiss Bank Account. 

I guess if a seller is super motivated, he/she would listen to the whole message, but do you feel you are losing some potential leads because you do not take their calls live as some may be on the 'motivation borderline' and just bail at the long voicemail and move on to the next investor in their PC stash?