Long Position on Silver and Gold?

[ChunkyMonkey]

I would love to have a few rental units/homes.

All about leverage.. Because bank is taking 90% of the risk of your portfolio. It's better than trading a stock margin account as if my house burns down, insurance company sends me a check... When the stock market crashes, does your broker care?

Furthermore with leverage, your initial investment aka Downpayment doubles every 12 months or so and mostly written off by your depreciation etc for tax reason.

Finally with rental portfolio, whenever the housing market crashes, rental fee goes up (more profit) and bank takes all the risk on the capitalization, yet when the market is hot, rental fee doesn't go down and YOU gain value. It's almost bullet proof IMHO.

Now back to silver, silver is something I have that is liquid enough and much more stable than cash in the bank.