This home needs a complete rehab and is heated by oil.

Anthony,The Houston market has been hit quite hard by declining oil prices. 

This includes fractional ownership interests (tenant-in-common interests), Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs), water rights, air rights, mineral rights, certain types of oil and gas investments, etc. 

I've been paying the oil company about $380/year for a service contract that involves the company sending a technician out whenever there is a problem.

I work as a mechanical engineer for an oil refinery here in town where I was offered my first job out of college.

I graduated from Texas Tech in 2014 and have been working in the Oil & Gas industry since then.

I'd be interested in knowing if they are relatively easy to rent.I know the Vernal market is volatile and reliant on the success of local oil operations.

A few months after closing he claimed his lawyer forgot to include the oil in the tank at the closing, and he said he can demand it because of the "errors and omissions clause" in the P&S contract.

Then we discovered they had been illegally manufacturing hash oil in the garages.

Those of us with a smaller, local portfolio of units have them running like a well oiled machine- so it may seem like it is about the money, but it is really about the risk of bringing in an outsider who will fubar our machine.