I'm looking at all types of investments; House hacking, SFR and MFRThank you in advanceI think you will find Houston to be a little more cyclical with the ups and downs of the oil & Gas industry than the rest of the large Texas metro areas like Austin, DFW, El Paso.Texas will have high property taxes, reasonably high sales taxes. 

Kilgore has businesses such as Halliburton (oil field services) among many other oil field service business, Kilgore College, SATCOM, Orgill Inc. and many others, that people are coming to town for and will need homes.just my 2 cents from a past local

Engine oil doesn't come out of white carpet...Same guy took a rototiller to the backyard.

We did get the property remodeled and turned around just in time for the oil boom to hit, which nobody saw coming.

Keep in mind that Solid Stain is different and falls into a category of it's own.Paint Type: Use water based paint, not oil. 

With that in mind, I probably would have included PEMEX and the temporary historical Iranian oil expropriation as well.

Live by oil and gas activity, die by oil and gas activity.

I am in central Virginia now and I would probably pass on investing here because of the oil heater situation.

You see the exact same thing for get rich quick schemes for the stock market, only there its even more absurd and it is often clearly and blatantly fraudulent.Snake oil salesman have been around for a long, long time. 

We are midway through switching the heating system from an oil furnace where I would be paying for the heat to a new propane system where the tenants will be paying for their own heat.