If no other offers exist for this place he's fishing you for a better deal, and I'd tell him to shove it.

After following up with the insurance desk adjuster consistently, Back to the present, I just got off the phone with their "Director" of special insurance case, whatever that means, where we've had a pretty combative conversation where I get the feeling that he was fishing for something and I said as much to him.

I send the sellers letters to fish for future deals and I send the buyers letters to help build my buyers list.Of course those wholesalers that are assigning their deals won't show up in public record.

Hell, maybe one day Saudi oil will be a currency reserve, a complete reversal of oil being traded in dollars. 

Get the radiator/oil type, not the fire-hazard exposed-coil type.

Even with the prices of oil going from $100 to $40/bbl, the house prices retained their value.

Tech vs oil vs banking could be isolated in terms of geography 

I too would like to do some out of state investing since I'm a little fish living in Brooklyn.

from livestock grazing-split the land (gosh, I’d hate to), hoping a smaller section would bring more price per acre-contact oil or gas drillers in the area to see if there might be potential for mineral incomeFinancing:-no idea.

Or are the buyers for this kind of business only “big fish” (i.e. buying all cash, lots of money, etc.) ?