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24 November 2014 | 45 replies
I was getting an oil change the other day and all signs were bilingual, not standard in my area.
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21 December 2014 | 7 replies
Parking, hunting, fishing, storage, farming, Xmas trees, farm stand, construction material/vehicle storage, beach parking/shuttle to beach, haunted hay rides/mazes, "tiny" houses on trailers, flea market...
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13 April 2015 | 40 replies
My clients like Texas because of the oil and energy sector and the Exxon campus going in.
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29 October 2014 | 4 replies
Amazed, the investor just had to know how he had caught so many fish so quickly."
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5 November 2014 | 4 replies
Fine fishing nets might work, bats seem to get caught in them and then you can call animal control to come and get them humanely.
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11 February 2015 | 7 replies
As @Michael Herr noted it's all about the prep work, that being said although it's not "easy" to work with oil base paint would last the longest and stand the test of time and weather conditions.
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10 February 2015 | 7 replies
All areas of Texas are going to have strong oil and gas ties.
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5 March 2015 | 37 replies
For example about 45 days ago you could short pretty much anything related to oil and make money (that's not financial advice by the way), not that anyone with any sense in their head would just short oil companies at random but you can still take advantage of a well known downtrend in oil prices.
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31 July 2014 | 1 reply
It is a little oil country that boarders Iran across the straight or Hormoz.
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16 April 2013 | 48 replies
I've eliminated all oil heat, either by selling the properties or converting to natural gas or heat pump.