Jake Recz Don't forget that a majority of properties in West Milford are using septic systems, private wells and have or have had oil tanks.

You can turn to examples in the oil and gas industry where these dead rural towns get the massive influx of cash from the oil and gas investors and the town explodes and dies when the oil and gas are gone.Amazon in Akron will probably not be significant.

With smoke stains and other smells I've found that priming the walls AND CEILINGS with an OIL BASED primer (not water based) did the trick before I repainted.

For the beetles in the garage they used orange oil. 

If not (ie two full-time working spouses) your only other option is going into land conservation deals, solar deals, or oil and gas deals - all of which have some risks.Explained in a different way...1) There are ordinary/W2/active income on one side.

The # 1 commodity is and will always be housing, # 2 is oil and # 3 they say its coffee))) in late 2009, I began buying, well doing short sales of homes with loans in the $200K+ with accepted offers from mayor servicers/large banks in the mid $20ks.

Whether that's precious metals, RE, oil and gas, etc. in their minds (and they have models to "prove" it) the returns are sub par, expenses are high, you can better tax shelter returns by investing appropriately, etc.Basically I don' think either camp is right in that scenario, but some people are just set in their ideas.

Oil is next and some other commodities.

Oil is down, stocks up/down, rates low, slow growth, dry weather, money chasing returns...blah, blah, blah.  

I am an engineer within Oil & Gas.