We've sold a number of houses and each time, if we were not at work, I would take the dog for a walk and my wife would go sit out on the front porch. She would tell the realtor if they had any questions to ask away and left them alone. The last house we sold worked quite well. The buyers came out and sat down with my wife and just had some generic questions. When they came back for another look, I was there too. We all sat on the front porch and we talked about the community, how well the roads were plowed in winter, the neighbors, etc. They stayed for almost an hour. The following day we got a full price cash offer with no contingencies. No inspection, no nothing. It's been over 12 years, and they're still there.

My trees are in for a few day for extreme cold. A few weeks ago they were outside but I lost those pictures. Later for pictures seed grown Fukushu kumquat trees on the sides of New Zealand lemonade tree. left to right Poncirus trifoliat, Meiwa kumquat, and beets.

Elizabeth, my comments were based on my experiences. Not too many years ago, I offered an old CRT large screen TV we'd decommissioned to the salvadoreño who does work in and around our house. He chuckled and said in half Spanish and half English that his extended family had pooled their money to buy a big screen TV at Costco for the men to watch futbol and for the evening shows for the women in the family. My last visit to the cable store was to return a settop TV box (after I'd switched to DISH). The people in front of me in line were modestly dressed Spanish speaking women who paid their bills in cash, using mostly singles and also coin change. When people are spending extended time at the counter because of the need to count and recount cash, it's not hard to see what's going on. As you said, you and most others pay these bills with autopay or another online means. Those who are illiterate, or who don't have the credentials to get a bank account, pay bills in cash. And such people are typically hard working folks of very modest means. That was what I saw.

Has any bought a house out of state before with out being there physically. If so how would one go about doing it