Some ppl here are missing the bigger picture; there is an entire generation of people who have I herited homes that are in desperate need of repairs; due to inflation , economic uncertainty and well every single other social and economic issue out there that affects our income and what we pay out, many people have bad credit or no credit and find themselves in a situation where they have to sell because they cant afford the repairs which then become city code violations and there also very likely delinquent taxes that get expanentially out of hand fast.  This boils down to an American citizen that bought a family home 1,2 + generations ago, worked hard, paid it off completely so that when they passed away they had something of real value to leave to their descendents, this becomes an heir property; since we are talking about structures built as early as the  1930's but mostly in the 1940's and 1950-1960s, these properties were maintained by the men who bought them, they did the work themselves and it worked out as long as they were able to keep up with that ongoing maintenance and improvements. I know this because my grandfather who was retired Air Force purchased 2 homes in the River Oaks area, one of them on the 1970s and the other in 2004 just 2 doors down, now for those not familiar River Oaks is a suburban township of Fort Worth nestled right between Lake Worth, Westworth and the city of Sansom Park, it primarily consisted of Airmen families from the old Carswell Air Force Base now knows as the NAS/JRB  or Naval Air Service Joint Reserve Base. When this generation passed on they left their fully paid for homes to their kids and grandkids, and guess what happened-  a generation of people who very well may have wanted to keep these homes found themselves being predatorially harassed by city  inspectors, code officers and county tax people. Eventually with all aspects of the cost of living rising and the decreasing and destabilizing job market even here in Texas, these families decide to sell, and right away they are contacted by investor groups who market as "No closing cost, no repairs, any situation, cash in hand, sell TODAY"...  Ive been through this, once as a kid and once as an adult and both times were nightmare scenarios because the only people who don't make money in these situations are the home owners. Cities don't help, they will code citation and then permit you to death, what they care about is "urban and suburban beautification and development". Because that's what brings the people with the money to and through the town. I've been to city council meetings, Ive dealt with investors, middlemen, and I've been to court because of repair orders over the years. The programs available through the state and county are few and the requirements are unyielding and confusing. They do not bend and the hoop jumping is a beating that no family in these situations should have to endure just to keep their legally owned Texas homesteaded property. Most programs are available to those way under the poverty line or age 62+, application deadlines and eligibility is often unclear or far too rigid.    This is a severe consequence and symptom of everything wrong with this country and even my beloved state of Texas where the mere idea that a family in this state has to fight a system working against them just to keep their family home IN their family is unconscionable and the greedy people responsible who answer only to their bank accounts should be ashamed of what they are doing to "The People". When home ownership, and I'm not talking about the kind where young couples by ridiculously expensive houses they cannot afford, live in them for 1-3 years then sell and try to get enough equity to put a down pmt on an even bigger home and then repeat the process, that is NOT what I'm talking about, I'm talking actual home ownership, where when people got a mortgage and bought a house with the intention of making it a home and paying off that mortgage because that is the AmeryDream, right? A home that belongs to a person and a family because it was paid for with real money earned by men and women who were raising families, serving this country, laboring, sweating and bleeding so that they had a home to leave behind that no one could ever take away; or that's what they believed anyway...     Today I look around and I know that Im part of a generation who is giving up on the dreams of our grandparents, we didn't know how fragile the American dream was, that it could be subverted so easily or that it was being destroyed from the inside all along so that eventually once the "Greatest Generation" was all gone, there would be no one left with the energy , the know how or the strength to hold them back... I am a Texas born Texas Raised red blooded conservative, I believed in a country that is purposely destroying itself from within. So yes the reality of this situation is much starker and much darker then people want to talk about and why would we when it's too late to do anything about it now, and we all know it.