If your husband wants some gold for macro/hedge reasons, that’s fine — but I’d keep that in the long-term sleeve, not the “waiting room” sleeve.Your overall allocation story makes sense.Right now you’re concentrated in real estate + Roths.

This is exactly what we do in Detroit's class D neighborhoods and it helps stabilize the tenants and thus stabilizes the income.There is plenty of money to be made in Class D communities, but you have to roll up your sleeves to make it.  

For you personally, do you lean more toward the hands-off, turnkey style, or do you still enjoy rolling up your sleeves and being more active in the process?

So, he has something up his sleeve.

From there, yes, we highly encourage clients to roll up there sleeves and dive in trying to do there own analysis.

Always expect a project to run into issues, cost more than expected and sell for less than expected and you will make money.The biggest advice I would give first time flippers is try and get with a seasoned flipper in your area and see how the process works . . . buy a few lunches and roll up your sleeves if possible and it will be a cheap education that will save you a fortune in the long run.It is easy once you get the machine moving but making sure you do not find yourself with the machine in flames at the start is key.

We are ready to roll up our sleeves and handle painting, cleaning (inside & out), basic plumbing, landscaping, and more.

The goal is to go from the insignificant many to the significant few, then we roll up our sleeves on those few. 

But others are looking to roll up their sleeves, not just for the sake of control, but because they believe the opportunity is bigger when they’re directly involved.What made this even more interesting was the asset class: affordable, sub-$90K homes.

Oh no, I believe in rolling up our sleeves and diving into real deals together.