Plus, when a 100-year pandemic hits and people flee the nearby metropolitan area for your upstate town, waving wads of cash and bidding up prices, and your landlady decides she'd like to get in on the action and put up for sale the house you live in, so on top of all the other stress and uncertainty of living through a 100-year pandemic you can also wonder where you're going to find a new place to live, you'll thank your lucky stars you never made the mistake of becoming a homeowner.