And I see some of the shakiness in Weld County with oil & gas being in the tank as it is.

The great news is that this will only last a short time while big oil strangles out all the small oil companies.

i know what you mean. im doing that currently with oil ETF's. 

Being a "well-oiled" machine did not happen overnight (and believe me - there are things I want to improve).The important thing is to take action on a daily basis.Co-opetition works indeed.By the way, I used to live in Mason Ohio actually.

BEWARE THIS SNAKE OIL MERCHANT. 

While I was in college I did "flip" oil and gas leases in Oklahoma successfully.

@Jessie Niu I have a post somewhere on the forums detailing the entire process, but basically it had to do with a decomissioned oil tank that the bank was unwilling to remove, so we asked them to give us $50k back at closing to assume the risk(We did soil sample tests and other tests), they settled with lowering the purchase price $50k.

Like you said, if oil is up, towns are booming, oil goes down, town dies. 

You could likely mirror the model in other markets that require transient workers such as traveling nurses or those working in the oil and construction fields. 

For natural gas  from propane and oil the reason is different,  the hookup is always driven by lower cost.