This is why all tax liens survive but the mortgage liens are wiped out once a property is forclosed upon for taxes.The government (city, local, county, or state) will usually contact any interested parties (lien holders) because all they want is their money which is usually a small amount usually in respect to all mortgages.

My heart goes out to the big wig executives that will scrounge to survive on measly hundreds of thousands of $$$ a year, after years of rightfully earning 300-500 times an average worker's wage, all while performing exceptionally and running the system into (or rather below) the ground.

Its free, and will do most basic office functions.There are some online calculators, but you won't survive in this business unless you can run either Excel or a financial calculator.You can also use my quick and dirty google docs version.

Pittsburgh has survived the housing market crisis.

There are things that are more likely to survive and operate through a recession, but there are no guarantees.

If you can survive this, you can pretty much survive anything..

Gotta make sales in the beginning to survive. 

This preserves the estate tax credit and passes it along to the surviving spouse so when the surviving spouse dies, the children could use both parents estate tax credits in the same estate.

One serious diagnosis can wipe out your investment, and you would happily use it to survive. 

Not likely you will get married and less likely it will survive if you do.