It's quite rare and it seems most of them have to have a day job or side business to survive.

-Harry

Is the city thriving, surviving, or shrinking?

-Harry

If you are a surviving spouse of a farmer, you may also be treated as materially participating in the farm, if the real property used for farming meets the estate tax rules for special valuation of farm property passed from a qualifying decedent and the surviving spouse actively manages the farm.

And as Dirty Harry is wont to say, "Do you feel lucky?"

. - Three things sir.1) This and any other business where you have to survive on your own (create your own paycheck, create your own benefits package and create your own retirement plan) is not for the weary.

If my odds are better that I'll survive a gunfight if I actually have a gun!!...

Things happen during their lifetime, a mortgage, a 2nd, a tax lien, they have kds, bails problem child out of jail (bailbond), someone gets sick, delinquent mortgage then default, someone dies, the surviving spouse dies, kid(s) want their inheritnce(house), bills left behind need to be paid, etc.This is how people live and how real estate is part of their lives.

-Harry