In the initial walk through of a duplex I have under contract, we noticed cracking along the outside of the foundation:We asked the owner about this and they said they recently had an engineer out to assess the foundation and he wrote:  "In this case, however, piers near the front wall are supported by a degraded soil bank.

Piers are then sized accordingly for the loads and the capacity of the soil present.

You mention your area is known for dried elk and bison, nuff said. 

Dependent on that towns future, many towns have completely died out as industry and commerce dried up.A safer investment would be a growing metropolitan area that has the attributes necessary to grow in the future.  

It is a dry county with a liquor license grandfathered in so if anyone has any experience dealing with anything like that, any suggestions or tips would be really helpful!

We have been scrubbing other deals in Atlanta over the last few weeks and they appear to be drying up as well.

I'm enrolled in the online course right now and like it although it's extremely dry.

MANY factors involved; vegetation, slope of the ground, soil composition that may/may not absorb the water ... but those areas where it pools, or doesn't have those items listed prior, you may need gutters.

@Bhavna VirmaniYeah not to be too cut and dry but this market here in vegas is tight.

It looks new and clean but keeps leaking and not drying my clothes.