GUEST - What is your view regarding a country property in a rural area that is fully paid off? Then what? Just curious what your estimate is on that situation...

My father, unfortunately, talked my mother into putting a mortgage on their property (which was fully paid off, and she owned it) in order to fund his idiotic business fantasies, which fell through (as they always do)...so things are not as well secured now as they might have been.

Me, I like to keep mobile, so all I own is my car, guitar, and various personal items, and I have no debts to anyone. I have no intention of being in debt to a bank. I've heard what happened to people in Woody Guthrie's time...

- LH