I can only say that from our 100s of clients in your situation who are helping family in India and Pakistan own in the US, it widely depends what rules and regulations to follow based on your facts and circumstances.

You have 3 options for Property Management - Suncadia, a local PM or do it yourself. #1.  

@Oladayo BolarinwaInvestors looking for rental real estate in the Houston area have several great options to choose from.

Definitely open to both options

Location (rapidly changing/close to amenities)This will hopefully make it easier to rent and give you options to rent out short term if desired.

It’s an affixed double wide manufactured home.

Who knows.Another option would be to buy a small parcel and slowly build a house with/for him and pull owner permits.

Being leveraged for a bit isn't the end of the world - there are usually options available if push comes to shove - 401k loan, personal loan, sell stocks, credit card (then balance transfer continuously until you can pay the balance off) and lastly sell.

You will then have a few options with that rent money....you can put it into principal or you can start saving it to purchase yet another property.

It's a budget friendly option to some of the other services, and they have engineers on staff + audit defense, but the more expensive cost seg companies ($1500-2500) will actually do walkthroughs of your property via Facetime to more granularly estimate components of your structure.