Few absentee owners ever visited their land, and fewer still spent any time on it.

These absentee owners are paid up to $1,700 a month simply to let other drivers use their licenses.

Most of those who purchased lots in the area were absentee owners.

In 1989, they bought the winery from its absentee owners.

First of all, Donald would not be an absentee owner.

With her death, the property again passed to an absentee owner and was largely neglected.

After several years, though, they sold it to absentee owners.

The orchard's absentee owner did not take care of it.

The roughly 1,500 absentee owners pay $25 a year each in property taxes.

"Now it's in the hands of an absentee owner and his lawyer."