Now my realtor and the seller seems sluggish. 

Hope I don't feel so sluggish tomorrow.      

Section 8 apartments were built to offset the sluggish growth, resulting in a negative stigma about the town.

.- Have pool contractor service pool vacuum that is reported to be running sluggishly (pool bottom looks clean whenever I'm there).- Have chimney swept due to creosote build up.Thanks for any input. 

That no one currently occupies.Selling agent has been rather sluggish with details and slow to respond. also dropped a hint that they had another offer.

If the market has, for example 6 months of inventory, then it is a bit on the sluggish side. 

—Will other events (stock market correction, sluggish job numbers) trigger a cascading dip?

If you are in a very sluggish market, sometimes you have to do what you have to do, but in my market there's no good reason to hold a unit open for people for anything more than 2 weeks.

@Linda Wright - Quick re-visit to the topic of property value - my initial assumption that the property value might have a relatively sluggish growth rate was based on a recommendation from an older colleague...but I realized I have no data to back up the claim. 

@Remington Lyman, I almost went with Cincinnati to start with due to the fact that I have a lot of family history in Ripley, about and hour SE, but the growth looked a bit sluggish and crime a bit higher than Columbus.