., oil heating - 1920s brick,exterior good, interior need some work totalling 50 -100k, Asking 580k but is motivated and I think we can get it for 400ish...I have lined up some cash for d/p, improvements and reserve for 6 months.

Alberta is the largest local exporter of oil to the US.

@Dana Nicholson - Yes, you need a plan.If I told you...Eggs, oil, water, flour, butter, vanilla extract, pan, bowl, spoon.Can you make a cake for me?

99% of guru sell snake oil that does not work.

Like most people, my big goal is to develop enough mailbox money to cover my expenses -- but for starters, just getting a first place with positive cash flow seems so daunting...I'm a lawyer working in the oil business (Houston, duh) and I like photography and playing guitar and singing (poorly). 

Say an area has an oil refinery and about 20 years ago that refinery found out that some oil had leaked out in the ground over a long period of time (as if anyone had doubted) and at that point decided to create well water testing facilities and testing local neighborhoods.

I will be moving to Alberta, Canada hopefully around this coming September to start working in the Oil Rig industry.

Engelo, I am an attorney in Cleveland, but my main specialty is oil & gas.

. $$$$ oil/gas and electric highest in country.The difference between the number of bedroom and adding one more is huge.

To this day, I look at the real estate listings and the daily price of oil in my town (also an oil based economy--over 90% of state budget).