A car can be burning oil but still getting you from point A to point B.  

Originally posted by @Adrien S.

Oil is making everything boom and its making this fairly new investor very impatient!

Upside end result will be 2 new bathrooms and new kitchen, new windows, new floors updated plumbing and electrical panels, new oil tank outside all for cost of materials gas travel and costs of 3 - 4 months rent etc.

And mopping with some oil soap is quicker and cheaper than shampooing carpet.

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

Do your own property management and shave off those $353 you have especially if this is your first rental.

My experience is that every time I try to shave a penny here and a penny there, the results show up in the work.

I live in Odessa Tx where we have a housing crisis at the moment because of the oil boom.

Of course, there are several heavy oil producing countries, such as Venezuela and Russia, who need high crude oil prices to sustain their weak economies.