Investing in precious metals is a bad idea at the moment as you'll be buying in towards the top of a recent run up - the gold/silver bubble will burst on June 30th (or thereabouts) when QE2 ends - you'd be better off buying dividend paying stocks in resource rich economies like Australia, Brazil, or your own home country, Canada.I personally use the preffered stock ETF (ticker: PFF) you get a monthly check and a nearly 7.5% yield and you do 0 leg work.

I assume 30% if its the same as stock dividend, that is what we get taxed as foreigner.I am trying to narrow down the type of structure before I go to an accountant and lawyer.

Your skin in the game would preferably be some cash investment (many lenders will want you to put in 20% of the total investment), but you could also get creative -- perhaps you have a nice car to collateralize, or you have some stocks/bonds you'd be willing to use to secure the loan?

Welcome to the forums.I love quant research, due to stock investing, but I find that looking at houses with a seasoned realtor is much more valuable than the numbers aspect.

Also, as the area gentrifies, prices on existing rental properties won't go up, the market will get more saturated and prices will stagnate or go down for a while as more rental stock comes online.

In TN, every brokerage firm/office has to have a "principle broker" who supervises all of the other brokers and affiliate brokers at the firm.  

Real estate, like a stock, does not care how much you paid for it.

Now this has become one of our guiding principles ‘Always give back’.

Whereas stocks only make you money today.

However; when we had a subdivision, I had a table in the kitchen, kept cookies, fruit, crackers, and other snacks stocked up, with paper and crayons or other toys around.