We continue to see some changes as we tweak our staff to really highlight each person's strengths.

The repairman took a look at it last night and today my tenant has been calling/texting nonstop complaining that his food will be ruined and his house will be flooded from the leaky fridge.

Do Nordstrom’s or Whole Foods compete on price?

Now everyone's budget is stretched because gas and food cost so much due to inflation.

I want to highlight that last point you made, regarding personal capital.

But the son lives in the finished lower level and the carpets are already needing professional cleaning. he has used every wall and ceiling area for flags,posters, giant signs etc and has a snack area with a microwave and all kinds of open food items that could attract rodents and insects.

I will spare you details like falling out of contract due to windows being inexplicably nailed shut, but for comedic relief I will highlight the pain culminating in complaints that there were random, free-roaming chickens pecking around our yard and putting off potential buyers due to a negligent neighbor.We ended up needing to take it up with the city to reign these fowls in, an action that caused the spiteful neighbor to tank a number of our other showings.The end result of all this was losing at least $30k (and probably more when it was all said and done), locking up the capital for ten months, and dealing with a two month long, stressful process of trying to sell and falling out of contract three times for various, silly reasons.

Single-family home sales increased 4.1 percent year-over-year;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes dropped from 46 to 38;Total property sales rose 4.3 percent with 12,149 units sold;Total dollar volume increas...

Cant beat the hikes and the beach (and the food!)

When researching a market, it is important to pay attention to the factors you highlighted above as well as what brings people to the city and what will continue to do so.