I agree. Don't buy real estate with friends. It most likely will not work out and if it DOES by some miracle, one of you will want to sell or change this or that, invite someone, have a party, etc it will just cause problems and becuase money and property is involved, it will be huge problems.
I suggest you buy your own home if possible and invest any money u can into making your credit history as strong as possible. You can do that by starting to have higher revolving balances in your accounts. Checking and Savings. Put the money into a CD or some form of CD, that even though will not yield high returns, if done for a year, within 6 months, your credit will be MUCH better because of this... ESPECIALLY if you have property as well.
Once that is established, depending on how responsible you are with your spending ability, you should take a loan against the CD, most likely it will be a 2% split between what you are charged in interest for the loan and what you make off the CD... or other similar investment. This will give u your money, but force you to pay it back.
You could open a nice site, pay back the loan... etc
After a year, you would have your house, money in the bank, great credit and a nice business.
It is a bit more complex than that, but that is a general idea.