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If you have some extra cash in savings, you might want to consider investing as another way of storing your wealth. But, where to start? The investing world is a vast and heavily interdependent web of many different markets. There are traditional assets like gold, silver, art, and the stock market, and then there are newer, more volatile asset classes like the (very) many cryptocurrencies available. Last but not least, there is real estate. Why Real Estate? Investing in real estate helps build equity, generate passive income through rent, allows for tax write-offs, and hedges against inflation. Another underreported benefit…