Also, some multifamily properties have separate utilities (water, electric, gas/oil) and some don't.

The two larger cities were hard hit due to oil prices.  

You've got such a well-oiled machine, why mess with a good thing? 

." - Zillow.comIf you don't allow smoking, would you allow the consumption of edibles and oils?

When demand is infinite you can deal with existential philosophy and sell snake oil over and over again.That is not the case in 95% of the RE market.  

In my experience, folks who say things like this are:1)Guru snake oil salesman touting huge fantasy profits with zero risk trying to lure the next sucker into their scheme, or2)Are so full of themselves and enamored with their own investment greatness that they have bought into their own hype and actually believe that what they are doing has no market risk and can't lose, or3)Both 1 & 2 above.If I can alert newbies out there that anyone claiming to be immune from market forces and can't lose money is not to be trusted, admired, emulated, or even taken very seriously, then I have added HUGE value to this forum.

When dealing with the police, mental services etc the squeeky wheel gets the oil.

.- Was the tenant aware the barrel contained oil?

I know there has been some discussion of what it might look like with the drop of the price of oil.  

I will be graduating college tomorrow and moving to Midland, TX for a job in Oil & Gas (engineering) in June.