I think we can repair some of our own stuff. I repaired my Fang Club today. I'm not really sure how the rest of it works because I've never seen my houses, etc as being available to repair.

EDIT: If you use the Maintenance Market (one of the blue buttons under the Town Hall) You can scroll through the list and select your own villager to repair things.

That's a bit of a roundabout way but Yeah for being able to repair your own stuff. :}

Weird but okay
At least we can

And it works like a charm, fixed one house, a shield, and 2 of my daggers (now I don't have to buy new ones for 75fc as I can just have them fixed for 14fc) This is so going to save me money. :}

A lot of money

Indeed, and if people will buy the houses I have in my stalls I'll have even more. :}

Finally got the materials to make the next best shield, and weapon. Equiped those, and the Fang Club, and what a difference! I can one=shot just about everything! Got all the mats to make the best sword so now I am rollin'! Warrioring is much easier with the proper gear.

Nice. I guess when I get my warrior I'll be doing some item swapping for maximal damage and defense

It so is. I have one great sword and I keep unequipping and equipping it from my one warrior to the next. As long as you keep a good shield with a high +HP you can pretty much survive anything. :}

It's nice that the Quetzal Palace better and best weapons give an attack boost, too. I think weapons from other towns have different boosts.