In my experience, deals tend to chase money.

I tried the sign him and her up, and continuing company's made good money but people always tend to fall off the pyramid unless its a necessity of life. 

I tend to agree that any updates you do will be fruitless.If you have some time and the listing agreement is about to expire, I'd pull it from the market and re-list with an agent that knows what they're talking about.

But definitely am willing to learn and want to buy local so I can tend to smaller matters that do not make economical sense to outsource. 

because families will rent it and they tend to be stable and stay a long time.  

I'm not quite where you are financially but I'm sure there are advantages to community banks for everybody.In defense of bigger banks, I think they tend to be slightly more technologically advanced. 

Items that are not tied down tend to walk away and are often hard to inventory.  

The properties build to be condos tend to be larger and have more amenities.

We tend to be boom/bust here: lots of money going into all sorts of start ups, good times rolling, home prices on a tear, then boom, the party's over (at least for awhile :).

Failure to do so will cause you to get thirsty, then desperate which tends to result in getting into deals you shouldn't.