No, not dumb. I see what looks to be Grandpa in one of the pictures, and I'm sure that not many if any feel worse than him. It'll live on, perhaps through the sale or in parcels to neighbors. Leasing it out is an option, and yes there is maintenance, but it is an option.
Years back I went to an auction of a couple of hundred acres and home, and barns, and silos and got to know the kids after the last parent passed on. They all had their own farms in the area, but none except one seemed interested in keeping the farm they all grew up on from little kids to adulthood, and decided to auction it all off. Guns, tractors, impliments, all of it. The kids all talked to me, got to know me, gave me the thumbs up, crossing their fingers, but it wasn't to be. It came down to me going up against a young Amish couple supported by the Amish bank, and us going up against a young doctor and his wife that dreamed of raising horses and needed to live within 10 miles of the hospital that he worked at. The young Amish couple and I got blown out of the water, evey bid we made easily being blown out of the water by the doctor whose wife wanted the place at all costs. They got it fair and square, and I'm sure the young Amish couple and their newborn probably got some other place as I know that I did. The doctor and his wife? That was years ago and they never did move in, get those horses, or anything else. They have a caretaker keeping the place up, and they can, because they got it fair and square. One way or the other, life goes on.
Its up to you and your family, but leasing it out IS an option.
Good luck, sorry to hear about it, but hope it all works out in the end. By the way, say HI to the grandparents from everyone here, and tell them God Bless as well.
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