our high end specialty market in Portland is called Zupan's  :)  my staff goes there daily for lunch. 

In terms of goals; I was one of the founding staff in software company that recently exited to a larger software company, therefore, I am looking to put my money to good use to allow me to have a level of financial freedom.

You bet your A** that if they waste my time trying to sell me a property they don't own and can't legally broker I am going to have my staff reach out to the seller and list that bad boy.

I thought it was a just a Connecticut thing because we have some large employers with a lot of engineers on staff but 20-30% of the clients I work with have an engineering background.

Having 95% of the staff working from home for an extended duration is a BIG hit in productivity.

Large apartment complexes with full-time staff, maybe.

4) Poor Property Management - Where do you think a turnkey provider will put their best staff, on selling properties and making $5k+/transaction or on property management and making $80/month transactions?

Sperry has an Excellent Staff. 

This was a scheme whereby he agreed to build a public library and fill it with books in any community that asked for one, as long as the community promised to set aside funds to staff and maintain the library, and add to its collection into perpetuity.

They are all over the mediaThey will pay buyers agents 3% to sell the houses.This is all before they pay the staff and keep the lights on.If they could keep thier fixed costs to under 10% per house, they may be able to break even.