For-Profit Businesses:

BizBuySell. (2008) Agricultural Business Listings. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.bizbuysell.com.

- This website, which serves as an internet marketplace for businesses for sale, offers a way to easily search for agricultural listings, most of which are in rural areas. These listings give specifics about if the business has gained or lost money in the last several years, what the purpose of the business is and the business’s competition. Although these listings are not directly related to rural poverty, they give the perspective of rural America from the eyes of entrepreneurs and offer contacts for journalists interested in researching the economic side of rural America.

LandWatch. (2008) Land and Rural Retreat Listings. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.landwatch.com/Farms_Ranches.

- According to its website, “LandWatch helps you find investment or recreation property, land for sale, hunting land and leases, land acreages, farms and ranches for sale, waterfront properties and country homes.” Although this website may not give information directly about rural poverty, it does show the prices of rural property in areas across the country, showing the prices rural Americans must pay for property, the wealth of urban Americans who move into rural, poverty-stricken areas and the juxtaposition of recreation in rural areas and the poverty that resides there. This website also shows listings for properties and contacts to realtors in rural areas that journalists can contact in order to find more information about rural America and rural real estate.