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Greg D. Paid in gold
12 December 2013 | 9 replies

I bought my first gold yesterday. I had a tenant that only had 1/2 the rent due and off the cuff asked if she had any jewelry she'd like to sell. I've never bought any gold and don't even own any jewlery.

I have a ...

David Breitzmann Jewelry investment as a RE primer and fear managing tool
8 April 2010 | 39 replies

Hello RE friends,

In an effort to move beyond theory (e.g. reading, speculating, postulating) and into practice there was a need to invest in a commodity.

Commerical paper doesn't seem as interesting because it's ...

William Bray The power of a self directed IRA
24 March 2015 | 7 replies

With 2 Trillion dollars locked up in traditional IRAs imagine if that was unleashed in self directed IRAs that can hold real estate!

Ali Samana How do you buy silver?
8 February 2013 | 102 replies

On another thread there has been some discussion on buying silver. Since I have been wanting to buy but am unsure I thought I would start a different thread for that. Here is my question. I go online to a site like...

Jordan Decuir How do you hold & protect physical gold?
23 March 2021 | 52 replies

I always hear Kiyosaki (and countless others) talking about owning physical gold in addition to real estate. I get the thesis, but how does one technically hold, store, and (most importantly) SECURE physical gold hold...

Ryan Spearman Owning gold as a reserve
24 June 2020 | 39 replies

I’m a big fan of cash reserves. The covid outbreak has only emphasized this. The problem with cash is that if you have any form of debt it literally costs you money to hold cash. To get around this I have a big line o...

George P. if you had some spare $ and wanted to invest outside of RE, what would you do?
21 October 2011 | 39 replies

If you had some spare $ and wanted to invest for mid- to long-term outside of your RE Investments, what would you do?
Thanks

J. Martin Another master lease signed this afternoon: A lesson in solving others’ problems – IN FLIP FLOPS - + My Mistake
9 June 2015 | 29 replies

In the last 24 hours, I took a headache off a busy man’s (dad’s) hands, am hooking up an international student with a baby w/ new furniture, baby stuff, and a place to live, and borrowed 5yr funds supported by the cas...