What I'm finding is it boils down to two VITAL things to make money. 

Read blogs, post questions, and the podcasts are gold!

Is it possible to use gold coins (major ones like Krugerrands or American Eagles) as collateral to buy down the interest rate?

Your missing some vital details, but assuming you have them leveraged as much as you can now, then I would say do not pay your mortgages down, especially if your intent would be to just refi them in a few years to buy more rentals.Why not take the same money that you'd be using to pay them down and buy more rentals now?  

Hello BP fam, I have been eying a property not far from an area that is experiencing a lot of re-vitalization. 

We get ALOT of LA folks that come over here during the summer, so I am used to seeing your purple and gold all over our road ways ;)  Best to you and your "team" and God bless everything you put your hands to work toward!

Today it's a developer gold rush to see who can pump projects out the fastest.

Just red and yellow and gold everywhere. 

A GC with skills and ethics is like gold, so hang on to him/ her.Cheers

I sure hope you can find the 5 to 10 minutes at most it ought to take what may look long there, before you follow through on your current plans, since my experience and nearly everyone elses review of the city course was basically "Good thing I got my little gold sticker someplace in MKE city gov, since the rest of the info of any value at all in that city thing fits easily into a 2 page brochure if not 1 piece of paper!"