Just FYI the properties I'm talking about will be in the shale oil field boom areas that are just getting ready to start up.

In conversations I've had with the great agent @Sharon Tzib, my perspective is that we won't see a precipitous drop due to the oil industry because we don't have insane lending going just yet but we have a slow-down in the real estate market.

As we were rolling on the primer with a roller, the nicotine oil was oozing through.  

There is a bunch new warehouses opening up like Amazon facilities and others in Byhalia which is east of Olive Branch.

(That one was for a tenant spilling hot oil on her foot while deep frying chicken. 

3) Medium grey wood-grained Waterproof vinyl flooring (WVF) throughout, with brushed nickel light fixtures and hardware, or Coffee wood-grained WVF with Oil-rubbed bronze light fixtures and hardware4) Keep the master-bath shower as it is, which is a medium blue fiberglass, and just replace the door with a modern one and trim in some coordinating hardware and glass tile, or totally tear out the shower?

I know there are probably better house hacking deals if we looked further out in Newark, Rutherford etc. but the other half needs to be closer to the city with her work.1 big downside, there is currently an oil tank that provides the heat/hot water to the entire building, I'm trying to see if the seller is willing to remove prior to closing (I'm aware of the environmental disaster issue).1) Assuming we need to stay this close to the city, does this look like a good first time deal?

I have already chosen a career and am employed at an oil refinery in Philadelphia.

My market is very transient, with a lot of oil & gas and manufacturing industries that bring in workers for 2-4 year jobs, so many are not looking to purchase homes, but rather rent.

After that I had to use Monox, a Greek silver-bullet primer to coat it, a product much like Kilz interior/exterior oil-based primer (your eyes burn when you apply it).