Oil, gas, wind, photovoltaic, biofuels -- all are really solar.If someone finds an actual explanation of what's going on with this engine, I'd like to see it.

I dropped out, moved a 1000 miles, and headed out into the oil patch.

Why did it take so long for oil to tank?  

However, if you look at the overall Bakersfield market, you can see that we are approximately 25% below our previous peak, and with oil, ag, and water hurting right now we have not really appreciated like other parts of CA.  

Something that I've noticed, that really frustrated me, are the snake oil salesman in real estate investing. 

Everything related to asphalt has lost its mind ever since oil started going up, and it's never come back down.

If the tenants are concerned just explain to them that you want to keep the furnaces running properly and efficiently so you can save them money on their oil costs. 

My business partner and I operate an oil company, and we use PPMs and venture capital to raise funding using working interest, are there real estate companies that do the same?

STICK TO YOUR PLAN (NUMBERS)#5 walked up on a pre-foreclosure and had a motivated seller, House was perfect for total rehab and addition for extra equity, huge lot for garage appt conversion. but my toolbelt wanted to do seller finance and she just wanted cash. we were apart about 15K and i just wanted to be at 65% ARV and she was at 75% ARV. i wont lie i was intimidated by the project scope. but what i failed to recognize was her pain. i did though eventually see it and when i did it was too late. by then someone else had promised her what she needed to hear. its never about the money...its always about the pain. can you relieve and help the seller with that pain. i walked in with cold hard cash when i needed to walk in with a both ears on listen mode. im not a good snake oil sales man but im learning the craft of listening. listen more than you talk, practice this with your friends and family try to keep conversations going with you saying as little as possible.

I'm focused on commute to Texas Medical to hopefully reduce some of the dependency on oil price/industry (clearly at MSA level its still a very significant factor for Houston)