The range hood looks disgusting because someone had spilled cooking oil down onto it, and then a bag of sugar.  

For the Houston guys, how do you guys see the market going now with the trend of less jobs in oil and gas?.

Easier to cut through all of the noise.Commodities: March December 1st 14 days agoSteel               $54.46 $35.60 $38.77Copper                 4.75  3.82 4.22Lumber             1,441 391 344Silver             26.46 23.16 24.49Crude oil       111.76 79.98 79.86Natl gas       12.80 11.00 12.22Corn              7.49 6.26 6.75Soybeans      17.00 14.39 15.38Different charts, different days, you will find different numbers for the above.Believe we are still in a Whiplash effect.

This is Oliver Johnson Woods area.

I liked your bit about asking, "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" as my mom has told me! 

Keep an eye out for any termite damage, in-ground oil tank (it may have been decommissioned years ago, but may still be in the ground).

i think one of the markets that are going to produce reasonable value for buy hold investors in terms of equity appreciation is in some of the more desirable suburbs like sugarland, katy, woodlands.. homes where say a mid level engineer or some middle to upper manager might have risk of job uncertainty given oil and want to essentially get out or need to get out.

This is to partly offset the increasing cost of property taxes, insurance, heating oil, maintenance costs, etc.

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.

HiWhat would be a good estimate to remove an in ground oil tank and replace it with gas?