Recent years have seen a surge in people investing in real estate. They seem to have finally realized that real estate is possibly the only investment which offers a tight safety-net in today's volatile and highly unpredictable world economy. While the U.S. dollar can not seem to rise out of its nosedive and the U.S. economy seems to be a victim of a very bad case of volatility, land remains an important source of income for many people as it has remained for so many others since the beginning of time.