Fuel oil furnace, no natural gas available.

Yes that's real estate.Now if he only owns the equipment and leases the land he still may be able to 1031 depending on how he owns the rights to the minerals.  

Back in December of 2016 I made a huge mistake and rented to 2 young men who worked in the oil field. 

And by the way he said, the property may have an environmental problem as he had been dumping motor oil in the back area.

prices are not climbing like when oil was 130 a barrel but they are stable now. 

I'm thinking whether we will see similar Lehman's collapse and whether there will be "too big too fail" so gov. has to rescue their friend, and QE will be restarted..... this is especially true for bank that's financing company like Coinbase/Celcius/any crypto company.Also my bet is if tomorrow's oil price goes back to $80 (like it always happened) then suddenly everything is back to normal.

Many years ago during the days of Oil heat a friend of mine installed one for the tenant to play with & one discreetly installed that actually worked left @ whatever the minimum required temp was.

Rent is still due on the 1st, late fee on the 5th, eviction starts on the 10th.Wife of 20 years left you for a pot-smoking, unemployed 21-year-old neighbor living in his parents basement (true story, not mine)? Rent

Stock Market, Oil Money & others.

The oil and coal industry are doing well too.