Let's plan the safe route if I only stand to make a few bucks selling the loan to some Exxon-Valdezish-run GSEs in the secondary market.

With Exxon and SWN building their new headquarters in Spring, and plenty other major companies already there, the surrounding areas have been experiencing a very rapid growth.

I have heard exxon is building a plant in the portland area, i am looking into start investing in that area as well.

their opinion(and alot of other investors) is that high quality stocks are the best buy right now(Microsoft, CocaCola, IBM, Exxon, Walmart) These stocks outperformed several years ago when lower quality stocks were decimated.www.vanguard.com they have alot of free investment tools Email me if you want more info or websites.

This happened by accident so I’m trying to make it more intentional by building a relationship with these companies like Toyota, Exxon, USAA etc (generally household name type companies) 

My clients like Texas because of the oil and energy sector and the Exxon campus going in.

How about Exxon or Chevron?

The house in spring is very close to the new Exxon Headquarters they are building and the north Grand Parkway Loop.  

The project, owned jointly by Mobil, Shell and Imperial Oil (a Canadian subsidiary of Exxon), went online in 1999; it is expected to close in 2017.Source-http://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/

Notwithstanding the cyclical turndown in energy, that new Exxon HQ is awesome and will be driving employment growth for decades to come.