Bankruptcies are a different matter, while they could qualify after 3 years, that is when the cause was not due to their financial failure, being unforeseen and unavoidable like a plant closing that puts the out of work or medical bills.

You should get a farm rental lease from your cooperative extension, that will cover issues like maintaining fertility, length of term (even if you evict from the house, they are going to get to continue to farm the land until any crop they plant is in), etc.

Which sounds great, but can be a real nightmare when the city does a half arse job of doing it, cutting irregularly, getting rid of any flowers or plants you might have put in, not allowing bike racks in front of business.

I planted the seed of a "subject to" to give him something to consider. 

Our home for the last ten years in Grove City is on the market and we are relocating to the Sarasota area to be closer to my parents, the beach and to have more opportunities in real estate.I am a union carpenter that only works at nuclear plants around the country during outages at this time.

We have owned and operated small businesses and we planted a church in Seattle Washington so we know how to work.

I'd have a house on the cleared part of the land but the rest would be left to nature, though I might plant a few interesting trees.

You could also create a larger planter in the front yard by eliminating a lot of the grass (maintenance), edging the new space with pavers that match your trim and planting some low maint. low water use species that would add color to the place.

There is no way to verify borrower's issues where you are.There may be other restrictions given the current circumstances, I'm not familiar with the economic constraints between the US and Russia.You might do better partnering with someone here that has feet planted here. :)

Buy it cheap, don't over rehab it and then sell it for a lot less than it would fetch in a nicer area.Last year I made over $33K flipping a house that was literally across the street from a sewer plant, had train tracks running through the back yard, was in the flight path of the municipal airport and while in a nice town itself was less than a 1 min drive (Unless you had to wait for a train to go by:) ) drive from arguably the worst city in the state.Sold it for about $100K less than I would have if it was like a mile away.