When temps get low like this, funny things start happening down here – beside the mass decent on the grocery stores, I mean.For one, it’ll heat up during the day just enough to cause the top layer of snow to melt.

Part of me thinks I'd be doing him a favor offering $3 and a slightly melted Snickers bar... 

Also they tend to shed snow cleanly as compared to shingles which might 'weep' the melting snow, re freeze, and then create an Ice Dam which can do damage to not only the siding, but to the insulation and ceilings.

The melting pot of stories, failures, successes, losses, chances, lost jobs, the ways people got into real estate, the teamwork of spouses and family, the education, the no education and jumping in, with money, no money, operating locally, across all states, marketing, strategies, taxes, property managers, rental properties, duplex, tenants, landlords, GCs, so many variables. 

However I don't think that will lead to a full on melt-down.  

LTCM was a beta house and that is how the lost their money, they had loads of money in correlation trades especially in the bond areas, not pure arbitrage.The Goldman Fund that melted down recently was another example of a Beta fund, tracking correlations between obsure unrelated securities.

After going by the property today, I was surprised that it looked different once the snow had melted away.

If you put someone hot on it (iron or hair stylers), the carpet would melt.

Post the economic melt-down we have rented to several tenants who had recent bankruptcies.

Without the second and thrid steps, the phermones will attract more bees and the melting honeycomb will attract other pests such as ants causing secondary infestations.