Today, he was showing me a property I had asked to see and he let me know he had another one coming soon that he thought would be a good fit for me.

Hey All,Quick question, this may be a standard strategy, but what is the best plan when you start thinking about retirement and you own real estate.You can't eat equity.

Right or wrong, my subconscious tells me it could be a fake profile, and I weigh it as less than one with a photo and a complete profile.

It would be as a loan, and I wouldn’t have equity in his deal. 

Would like to keep the property for down the road, but realizing I might be better off to get a place in town with more space and try to turn this place into an investment property for the time being instead.

Landlord pays water/trash. 3 units well under market (long term tenants over 7 years) market rents would allow for $6000 month ($750 per unit) There is no laundry at property.Turn key investment

It's well-designed, easy to navigate, and contains a wealth of useful information.

I would consider investing in stocks and index funds to be passive.

The only documents we have would be a signed lease, and tenant ledger.

She’s for real estate (I think market is over inflated) but in the past we use it for rainy day fund vs holding $ for repairs as well as acquiring property via cash to rehab and sell.Regarding equity shares I would read the fine print as from what I have read you basically are selling your sole to those companies for a small payout to start but giving up a ton of equity