How to make my offer stand out?

[Adam Craig]

I have had a hell of a time getting anything under contact lately and my 2 crews are almost done with 2 of my recent projects and I have know where to send them. 

My wife recently got her real estate licence and she has been making all my offers but so far 6 strike outs.

We are almost always going in above asking - no contingencies - cash (hard money) - 21 day close date. But I continue to get the message "seller has decided to go with another offer".

These properties are all bank owned junkers for the most part. Is there anything more aggressive (aside from higher offer) that I should be doing? I checked the history and one of the properties I didn't get actually had a lower accepted offer then mine by 2K - what gives?

Are there a lot of "relationship deals" going on out there where agents do deals with the same investors? Do banks typically care how fast you close - thinking of changing it to 15 days which we can normally do.