We lost about $100,000, which we had borrowed from family.

You have zero control over the stock market, whereas when you do private lending, you have significantly higher control and contractually guaranteed return on your money.

.- Since we're not really in full control of the property, the Hold Harmless also indemnifies us against anything that goes missing at the property and squatters.We get asked/told to do all kinds of crazy stuff by owners, who either don't care what happens to us or haven't really thought everything through.Hope this addresses your question.

That's unusual and it would be very difficult to find a passive investment like that.Also direct control means I know exactly what's going on.

I do agree the lack of control is a potential issue.  

AI replies and posts are annoying but hard to maintain/control those.

@Janine Sharma The decision to classify your onsite mobile home park property manager as a W-2 employee or a 1099 contractor depends on the degree of control you have over their work.

Other considerations are the lost costs to sell and re-purchase other properties.

They have lost many employees and the level of service and quality has been dismal.

The original poster's easiest route would be to have the owners of those titles request a lost title from the DMV, and then once the DMV sends them a physical title, have the owners sign them over to him.