I work nights at an oil refinery as an industrial electrician and there is lots of downtime, thus I've been doing loads of research and so far have read:"Start Small, Profit Big in Real Estate: Fixer Jay's 2-Year Plan for Building Wealth - Starting from Scratch""Investing in Fixer-Uppers : A Complete Guide to Buying Low, Fixing Smart, Adding Value, and Selling (or Renting) High"Both titles by Jay Decima (which were both good, informative reads)and am currently reading "Property Management Kit For Dummies".I'm currently set to close on my first home (for living purposes, NOT RENTAL) May, 8th.

Other than reading about real estate, I love to rock climb, fly helicopters, ski, fish, backpack, ride motorcycles, travel and experience all that the outdoor world has to offer!

A smart way to get around the fact we Canadian only have 3-4 sunny months, is the fact that we also enjoy ice fishing and snow snow mobiling.Lake Simcoe has a solid ice fishing  based winter tourist economy as well as snow mobilers.

There are bigger fish to fry than the minor bill, and for now the furnace is working.

They were probably under the impression that you were the buyer and not expecting you to fish their property to other buyers.Before you put any house under contract have at least 2-3 exit strategies.

I believe the oil collapse is hitting Houston too hard and this will get even harder.

My client has several acres of land she, and she want to start a small subdivision and I'm fishing for creative ways to get this task done.  

The active manager never gets more than about 25% in any hedge fund or REIT or mutual fund or oil and gas partnership.

Heater is oil or gas(usually electric is not an option out there) and how old is it?

Cast a larger net, you'll catch more fish and throw back the ones you don't want.