Better to invest in somewhere, either Real Estate or stocks/bonds/mutual funds or a mixture of both.

@William Brown..The crash actually Catapulted my business, since most investors sat on the sidelines...Over 40 RE transactions ...Most of my projects included Rehabbing SFR, Renting, Owner financing and Turnkeys......Still maintain a solid portfolio..;)..Looking for great Multi units and Flips in AL and GA....also a licensed agent in both states since 2016..Woop Woop!!!...

If you have a ton of experience and there is not too much risk on the money and a very good chance of making a large profit, then giving you a larger share of the profits might make sense if it's a better return than he could get in the stock market.

I would not invest in SFHs, too expensive to maintain, too much work dealing with one tenant per property and tenants devalue a SFHs.

Your expenses on maintaining a old MH will eat up any money you make over the term.

Your "empire" can be much larger than his and you have the choice of who maintains it. 

Whenever we purchase a property we must hold it maintain but it's difficult to handle everything together like organization or job, household, particular works alongside managing hire home so for that people employ home manager or property administration company.

You will have to take continuing education classes to maintain you license, but you can find most of them for free.Those are the minimum fees in order to get access to the MLS

The actual money may be maintained in the same reserves account, but, the way they are accounted for once spent are different.Maintenance and repairs are part of your ongoing operating expenses and are items that are relatively small in costs and routine repairs.

I like where we live now and we have a nice arrangement with my parents but I don't know if I should relinquish our ownership/stake in the property and cash-out and just rent from them or if we should maintain the current arrangement.