We have had our local economy go bust for while here due to the drop in oil prices. 

Under a full guardianship that means we are untimately responsible for everything, income, expenses, housing and medical decisions, taxes, debts, mortgages, wills and estate planning, suing or being sued, investments, real property, unique asset liquidations like oil/gas leases, coins, fine art, notes, cars, foreign real estate, boats, wine, financial exploitation investigations including forensic accounting, criminal and civil trial testimony and recovery of funds when we are lucky, budgeting for liquidation of assets in order to fund medical and care expenses, (I could go on for hours); basically everything you can think of in your life... imagine someone else having to do that for you because you're incapacitated.In my work I'd estimate I've been involved in the sale of 300-400 properties, maybe 100 probate cases and many hundreds of guardianship and DPOA cases.  

Joe, burning the midnight oil?

I had recently purchased a home and with in less than a week my oil burner stop working on me.

Basically I was just fishing for a few ideas on how to expand my clientele, and I think you gave me a wealth of information that I did not think of.

Current economic projections/outlooks tend to fall in line with a slight decline of about 1%-1.8% year over year until the state gets it's budget on point or oil rebounds.UAF is also a smaller community, with a heavy military and college presence, so you should be fine.

@Terry Hughes...After all the discussions of the downturn in the oil market, and other real estate articles about increased vacancies in the commercial space (multifamily and office) in Houston, are you seeing an uptick in foreclosures in that market in other areas? 

I love to fish for steelhead and other species in the area.

The minute the oil prices return to previous high level, with high inflation, high interest rate you will see a decline in demand and lower home prices.

We saw this in Houston when the oil turned and occupancy at our partner's properties (B/C) did fine, actually trended up slightly while class A crashed pretty hard in some areas of town due to the fleeing $100K/yr oil jobs.