They chose us because I spotted their vegetable garden and let them know, as a gardener myself, that I would be comfortable having them come back to harvest their crops if they wanted to.

Drive to trail, hike in, harvest kill, debone and bag on the spot and place in ice chests.  

The content was basically "I have decided to start purchasing real estate in order to scrap the homes for lumber to sell" semi maybe sarcastically, maybe not, maybe joking, maybe not.And then my next thought was "OK, so I bet Jay H is out there in PNW looking for teardown quality homes with high DOM not selling, that also have a few trees on them, and he's going to harvest all of it -- live trees and dead."

Your folks don’t seem keen on harvesting the equity but rather they seem motivated toward setting you up here.  

I do not even list phone numbers on my rental ads all I provide is email and messaging services and my number is hidden on rental listings, so I am still trying to figure out how my number was harvested. 

I’ve seen 1200sf single family home rent for less than $500 in the farm towns I spend harvest season in.

I’m sure over time I would get a feel for that, but I’m certain with today’s technology there has got to be a way to accurately and efficiently harvest that information and analyze what areas are higher rent producing areas.

That parcel size may be on the small side to attract a commercial timber harvest, too.

Forests are great for lumber harvests.

In order to cover the mortgage payment we moved a tenant into the Truck shop fairly quick after closing along with another local company who is harvesting sod off the fields.