Right to call and adjust, not expire. 

How much notice was required to terminate after the current lease expired? 

Handymen don’t always have the best track record.. you never know with hiring a un licensed contractors, they can completed destroy something or burn your house down, and all they have i a van and you’re stuck with the bill.. always check for insurance, and ask to see a copy and see it hasn’t expired, I’ve seen what a bad handyman can do, and it’s not pretty...

Then the day before the latest contingency expires, the underwriter says they now need back to November. 

Then when they are about to expire, we need to extend them since the world didn't end.

Every brokerage preaches the same, tired crap to grow your business...talk to family and friends, call expired listings, call FSBOs.

They never notified me even when the tenants were moving out and the lease expired.

Most places you have to honor existing leases until they expire (or until they are materially breeched, or until you can talk the tenants into signing a new lease).

Then you can mail or cold call or both.Other cheap or free methods are driving for dollars, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites and bandit signs if allowed.If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller websites, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is integrity and consistency.

However, condo has a ground lease that expires in 2049.