The drilling companies are the first to show up (boom) and the first to almost completely vacate an area (crash) and variable demand between those times.Now I know many good honest people that work on the drilling rigs and most companies have strict policies.

These are not cookie cutter transactions and an agents experience is valuable.  

Cookie cutter policies are usually out of touch and often don't address local needs. 

More accurate of you are looking at cookie cutter houses with tons or local comps, but still can be wrong because at the end of the day its a formula.What i really suggest doing is using redfins search to look at recently sold houses in the area.

With a heater rigged up they are hanging drywall in t shirts upstairs while the lower levels are freezing.

For the most part, niches like this will be ones that fall into your lap because you're known as the guy that does things no one else does (and/or does the cookie cutter ones with greater efficiency), thus in turn causing folks out there to say "Oh, call Lee, if he can't do it then it can't be done."

@Matt Bacenet it would likely be bid rigging....

There are some very high end custom renovations going on in this area along with the more cookie cutter ones that still sell for good prices.

3 months on, 3 months off is common working on a rig.  

Yea I would definitely want to get a builder involved from my area, though a lot of the places in the are very cookie cutter and I would want something a little different, but yea I do not have a background in development so I would rely on others a lot more.