Although infinite factors are taking effect, it seems like overall the major themes are too much consumer debt, a dollar that's on the verge of collapse, and housing prices are in a bubble. 

I know a common theme is to hold for the first 10 years or so, value add during that period then trade up.

Clearly, if the houses aren't selling at the price the realtor told you, the realtor isn't good enough at his/her job.That said, I've been following your posts for about two years now, and the one common theme is that you're constantly looking for black and white answers to things that don't have black and white answers. 

I'm partial to WebFlow and have made a number of sites using their pre-built themes.

I think there are great deals out there because of the 'retail apocalypse' theme in the media that ignores the subtlety that physical sales are still necessary in a lot of cases.But that does not help you much because you need to do a lot of work in that area to find good investments because many of them are terrible and will go dark/declare bankruptcy.

Brady Hanna I wrote a blog article on this very topic: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/05/24/you-just-passed-your-real-estate-licensee-test-now-what/It doesn't go into Kansas City specifically, but the overall theme applies to any market.One question though.

Have them e-mail you the info for each lead, and then call back the ones that need to be called back.I use patlive.com/ronlegrand.

Matty M "Sarcasm" was the theme of the last post.

Exquisite craftsmanship, use of woods and spaces all in a nautical theme.

Thank you, much appreciated. it seems to be a consistent theme from the responses.