They also sell better customer service via their gold package which allows people to jump ahead of regular customers. 

The trading gold for silver/bronze is probably challenging longterm.

More and more I see that absentee owners whether there is someone they renting to or looking for someone to rent their home will always want top dollar no matter how bad of condition their home is... they don't realize you are investor even though you told them this and will throw a high number to either get you to leave them alone or they truly believe they sitting on a gold mine of a property when it is NOT ONE!

MILLIONS were made running whorehouses in gold rush towns too, slave traders made Millions, things change!

Troll or not the value of only providing M2M is gold in eliminating applicants like @Brooklyn Au.

To be more specific, I have an early 90s home in Northern California with standard builder grade materials throughout for that era (solid oak cabinets, linoleum floors, gold accent hardware in bathrooms, tile counters, etc.)

Very nice lookingThat contractor/installer is worth his weight in gold...

@Pono Wright   I have done a lot of land in Northern California in and around the Steam gysers and one ranch I bought out by the Homestake gold mine...

After that, it's just paperwork, and I don't know that I'd bother with an attorney for this, but it's going to come down to the golden rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

CASH position in the banks (money market funds)3. stock marketCurrently there's huge massive cash position in money market fund ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MMMFFAQ027S ) ready to deploy when all thesecash owner see some discount in real estate market lol ; the cash position is so huge that I would say residential housing is actually more important than gold or oil combined LOL.