I would move to Bend, OR for 1/2 of the year (summer) and back home to Houston in the winter.

On the other end of that connecter there should be Flame Sensor, looks like a small dia. rod, may have a 45* bend in it, unscrew it and clean the yellow brown coating off of it with any abrasive.

We bend it around the corners to avoid cut edges that could eventually separate & leak. 

One word of caution you need to be well informed of tenant rights to bend and skirt the law (not to be attempted by newbie or hobby landlords).

Every time I bend on my rules from that moment forward you can bet they will be late again the next month and expect the same thing.

In one of the units, inspector noted bowing / inward movement, bending movement, and horizontal cracking of front foundation walls.

The car vanished quickly while in the previous weeks all that was heard was excuses.The point of all this is you cannot bend or waiver an inch or tenants will take a mile.

I just spent two years getting out of a NEW duplex in Bend, Oregon that was built in the wrong location on the lot.

Inexpensive rentals close to the strip would be great for the casino employees to rent.I live in Bend, Oregon and think it's the best place in the USA, but it's for buy and hold, or for buying and selling equity.

I was able to bend it back with some pliers so that it would close, but it is still damaged.