Not an answer to your question directly @Sherri Southwell, but a fun fact.Two doors down from my grandma's house is what was a funeral home the entire time I was growing up.Now, it's a children's daycare center bustling with activity and life. 

What about the children and muh roads!

@josh p thanks for the advice and the inspiration.

Inspiring!

One good source for inspiration is Susan Sujanca (sp?)

My grandparents aren't around, and my aunts/uncles are broke with children and mortgages.

Hi my name is Kimberly, I am a local wholesaler in the Essex County area of New Jersey. I have had minor success but I have my eyes set on Bigger fish! By fish I mean Commercial Real Estate. After reading ABCs of Real...

This does not inspire confidence.

We do get postcards all the time offering to buy our one free and clear property, but it makes no sense as it would be a large tax bill if sold, but if we keep it, it's solid income for the rest of our lives, then our children would inherit at the stepped-up basis and either keep it and make an annual income from it or sell it and pay little to no tax on the sale.  

.- TrippPS, my girlfriend is in Uganda right now, working at a children's home called Musana in Iganga.