The house, zoned to accommodate three families, served as a bed-and-breakfast business called the Stockbridge Ramsdell House on Hudson until last summer.

The two rivals plan to go into the bed-and-breakfast business together after retiring.

The Nygrens will move into a new house in Serenbe and use their former one for their bed-and-breakfast business.

For now, the innkeepers had to return to Brooklyn to attend to their small bed-and-breakfast business.

To earn extra money, a number of residents in the small Baltic nation have gone into the bed-and-breakfast business.

"I would not go out and buy a large house to get into a bed-and-breakfast business," she said.

The hotel and bed-and-breakfast businesses peaked in 2000 with the booming stock market.

Eventually we opened Oliver's Bistro, and above it, the bed-and-breakfast business that John's parents were to run.

Could the Cape Cod bed-and-breakfast business be going the way of the whaling industry?

With William's early retirement package to see them through the lean months, they had launched into the bed-and-breakfast business.