As the rental market's softened I should adapt and keep that in mind.

Quality matters just as much (and more) than quantity of cash flows.Cash ReservesSkill and flexibility to adapt your investment plan as needed.

With half of this stuff what really matters is the prep and letting it adapt to the humidity, etc.

Then you adapt or discard the ideas as fits your needs. 

Translating the English of his day into the more modern idiom, Darwin said that those species which survive are those which are best adapted to the changes in their environment over time.So, in that context, what you said is correct.

My point here is that when new technology comes along the portions of the old way affected by it adapt.

What happens after someone works at it for an extended period of time and they eventually adapt to being motivated, what then? 

I'll adapt to changes as they are written into law, not as they are tweeted.

They also force you into working in their molds and expect you to adapt to their software.

We buy As is where is properties and rem-mediate the structural aspects to obtain insurance then sell for modest profits.I am looking to adapt my concept/strategy to the Tampa bay market with regards to sink hole properties.