I currently work in manufacturing industry and seeking a secondary income source.

@Paula Brett,I love and highly recommend investing in manufactured home related segments of the real estate business.

@Ronald Hunt there was at least one good podcast on BP about buying MH for cash [very low priced] and then selling them as a lease to own or on contract.I love this idea along with a more traditional idea of owning the whole park and enjoying monthly rent for the "dirt" plus having a few homes that are being sold on lease to own in the same park.I also love buying newer "manufactured" homes from the banks as a REO.  

I'm putting this money in a special needs trust, with the plan to find a mobile or manufactured house for about $100,000, which I figure I'll be able to buy out right with the money in the trust and be able to cover the bills with my SSI payment.