Notes from JWR:

Our spin-off web site, SurvivalRealty.com seems to be approaching critical mass. Five new advertisers have been added in just the last few days. Both individual property sellers and real estate agents have caught on to the fact that they need to exploit niche marketing to find buyers for rural properties in the currently depressed real estate market. And for buyers, SurvivalRealty is the best place to find retreat-suitable properties with very motivated sellers. (Prices are falling!) Speaking of which, don’t miss the price reduction on the Cocolalla Ridge Retreats, near Sandpoint, Idaho. Talk about a bargain, and you couldn’t ask for more like-minded neighbors that you can depend on in turbulent times!

In a recent SurvivalBlog post on countering home invasions robberies, I briefly mentioned that the crime rate in America might eventually get as severe as in South Africa. That elicited today’s first post, which came from a South African farmer, describing first hand what it is like to live there and to deal with the constant threat of crime.