We kept it & turned it into rental when we bought our bigger home, now that little seed we planted is growing into our next business venture.

'In every adverse event can be found the seed of a greater benefit'.

I'm in Ohio so unfortunately, we can't do anything yet except watch our seeds grow in anticipation of planting but in Georgia, you may have some options.

With $60,000 seed capital [20% down], you are able to take down something around the $300,000 mark (minus closing costs and all). 

I was planning on giving her the approval and moving forward to rent to her but my mother planted this seed in my head saying something seems off.

This way you can earn your stripes, learn, and potentially build seed money/relationships needed to get into a deal yourself and get a piece of the action. 

Your best bet is to start doing networking / planting seeds now.

It cost tens of thousands of dollars to install the rocks because we hauled away 6 inches of soil, put down 4 inches of crushed concrete base and 2 inches of rocks so we have very few problems with weeds coming up through the rocks and I think we more than recovered our costs in about 7 to 10 years plus we don't have to pay for grass seeds, don't pay for the water and no longer pay a gardener.

Income because your required rate of return is not likely available in the marketplace, and is certainly not available when factoring risk profile.Hi Evan - For sure I am a bit confused and hopefully some good ideas will surface from that confusion :) I see the limitations of the income stream I can achieve with the seed money I have by using totally passive strategies.

From there I was able to leverage it by living frugally and have seed money.While there is lots of information on how to invest with little or no money down.