Hacker News | Ask HN: I sold my company last month for $5m. What do I do with the money?
Learn a specific part of the real estate business that attracts you, and steer clear of single family residence homes. With that sort of cash you should be in multiple dwelling properties, or commercial retail, industrial or office buildings. The real estate market is dead and dying a bit more, so in the next couple of years that plum bargain is going to turn up, and you can be johnny on the spot, if you have done the study and learnt what is what. One good commercial property investment and you and your future family could be set for life with a healthy tax advantaged income and growing asset base.
Sounds good to me.

