I can't tell you how often my fiancee's little interruptions to my work time, drive me nuts.  

This is an area I would consider relocating to (the property taxes on LI are nuts, especially for someone who no longer uses either NYC or the local schools) but for the foreseeable future I am here.

But the kitchen could use some sort of bright accent: fruit bowl, flowers, bright cannisters.

Could be a shovel, fruit on your tree, clothes left out to dry, etc. 

Im actually seeing days on market  (vs no days on market)  and price reductions on a few properties, it is changing, My neighbor is a mortgage lender, she said the past month has been "normal" where as the past 1-1.5 years has been nuts. 

But I'm also in the Toronto area,prices here are nuts.

While they still teach and coach the nuts-and-bolts of REI, they also teach and coach about "life".

Dell Schlabach l am primarily a buy-and-hold investor on owner financed properties, but have completed a few rehabs and have done several wholesale deals as well.That might be surprising that I'm advocating so strongly for Robyn's courses when she is the "Queen of Rehab" and her class is primarily geared towards that side of the business and I am primarily buy-and-hold investor, but I'll explain that below...When she teaches, she often has Larry Harbolt with her (If you haven't seen Larry's owner finance stuff, it is a first class course as well) and his techniques are more applicable to the nuts and bolts of owner financed deals, but the value that I took from Robyn in my business was from the organizational side of the RE investing business, specifically the accounting side as she has an accounting background having worked for IBM for 10+ years and the point of automating, outsourcing, and hiring folks to do that parts of the business that are not directly income-generating such as property management, filing, some lead generation, etc.

That being said, based on Daniel's comments, this may not be a low hanging fruit, but I suspect that for the experienced property manager there would be money to be made here. 

If you can figure out how to come up with the cash to get started, you can avoid having to pay that nut on every deal.