re: Need help with a lump sum

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look at some timber real estate...you could get a nice piece of acreage that yields timber with that cash and some loans.

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If you know what you're doing and know the right timber people, you can sell good timber and wind up with a paid for piece of land at the end of the deal. But if you don't really know what you're doing, or you turn a bunch of goobers loose on your land, you could end up cheated and have brush piles, scared up trees and equipment tracks all over the place.

I know rental property and some about raw land. But when it comes to valuing trees, I'm not so strong. So I've been using a timber consultant for (pre-purchase) advice for years - he can broker deals too. For anyone who wants to get into that game, I'd suggest going that route. It's well worth the money (and mitigates the risk).