Not really. They are always lurking Denby. And it's a real term, like. Said. It is used to describe neighborhoods hollowed out by absentee ownership. Wealthy people purchase property not to live in it but as a means of wealth preservation. It drives up prices, increases local neighbors property taxes. Because absentees driv out full time residents , there are fewer small businesses, less employment. The neighborhood is composed of of houses that are wend but empty. It the living dea.