I may be biased because it's my adopted home, but Austin is nice.It's rated #1 by Forbes as a boom town:http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/01/14/...Top three cities to find a job:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-04-...One of the best to start a career (which is different than finding a job:http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/02/03/austin...Ranked #1 city for young families:http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-10-...There are a lot more of these articles, these were just the first five that came up when I Googled "best cities to live".

In order to determine if $5k capex is a good number, you should have an understanding of the remaining life in the roofs, and how much replacement will cost, whether windows are needed during the time you'll own the buildings, HVAC life expectancy and replacement costs, etc.  

Have a nice life.Don't wanna know, don't need to know, have a nice life.

Hell welcome to BP your life will be changed forever by joining BP

I'm from West Bloomfield/Waterford and have lived in the Detroit-Metro area all my life. 

Trailers old and in decline, yet still rented for the most part....Price is decent or probably be negotiated to such.My question is can a MHP come back to life with an infusion of newer but used trailer replacements and some investment in infrastructure or has the long years of decline permanently turned away future potential?

Talk to your financial advisor about Exchange Traded Funds and also about Indexed Universal Life Insurance products.  

So, making money now would be nice, but helping this family and gaining some real life knowledge is equally valuable right now.Thanks for reading!

growing up and living on the San Andreas fault most of my life..

Establish a criteria that you feel works for what you wish to accomplish and hold on to it for dear life.