If he has no retirement money stacked away or financially in a good place I would invest.

If so you should have a somewhat good understanding of what neighborhoods do and don’t have potential, start with the best neighborhood you can afford find the worst property in that neighborhood, that way you know you’re buying in a place where the economy is at least relatively stable and appreciation will be more likely!

The reason you get the low down payment and the low interest rates are because you're personally guaranteeing the loan based on your stable income. 

Additionally, my wife and I plan to retire in NC (still a few years out from that ; ) but we're actively planning and focusing our investment strategy in the Raleigh-Durham area.

Quote from @Tramaine Robinson: @Chris Bounds you still retired?

. $700/month (about 35% below market, which is closer to $1,000-$1,200) or approximately $6300 per month.Multifamily Property is Currently vacant, but there’s a signed letter of intent from a state housing agency to lease the property on a 5-year NNN lease at $3,000/month.This property has stable cash flow now, with a strong potential for upside by adjusting the mobile home rents to market rate.

Sometimes they will contact me directly when they are getting closer to retirement and decide to downsize some of their holdings.

So I say you should rent to these people because it seems to me he's trying to make a life for him and those children those children probably love him to death and they don't want to see anything bad happen to them it will be more harm to those children to have him gone and out of their lives then do see somebody stable and doing good.

A massive transfer of wealth in the next 4 years: 40M Boomers are retiring.

The term Diversified Core Equity style typically reflects lower risk investmentstrategies utilizing low leverage and generally represented by equity ownership positions in stable U.S. operating properties.There are currently 25 private funds that are included in the index.So in short, only this froum is tracking private data from an institutional private core-only real estate syndication.They're tracking core-add only and un-levered position.Here is the return of Commerial Private Real Estate core-only unlevered position for 4 quarter :        Q1__Q2___Q3____Q4____Annual 2007 3.71% 4.82% 3.68% 1.90% 14.84%2008 1.15% 0.09% -0.85% -11.04% -10.70%2009 -13.89% -9.24% -7.52% -3.70% -30.40%2010 0.51% 4.09% 5.22% 4.70% 15.26%..2022 7.14% 4.54% 0.31% -5.17% 6.55%2023 -3.38% -2.88% -2.10%  n/aAnnualized net return from Q4 last year : -15% !!!